Finance Co-Op

Spirit AeroSystems • Wichita, KS

3d

About The Position

This Finance Co-Op role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units. Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, using composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

The co-op supports budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, cost collection, risk assessment, and reporting. The role also contributes to process and tool improvements, training development, compliance reviews, and project startup planning. It communicates with customers on routine cost, schedule, and budget issues and prepares information for senior management.

Requirements

• Be enrolled full time in a university degree program aligned with the internship area.
• Be a current sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student in good standing.
• Be majoring in Business, such as Accounting, Finance, or a similar field.

Nice To Haves

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft products.
• Ability to closely adhere to process controls and coach others on them.
• Advanced skills and experience with Access and Excel.
• Experience with SAP, CRM systems, and data extraction.
• Ability to understand requests, establish a process plan to achieve targeted outcomes and metrics, and communicate at the executive level.
• A process-improvement and creation-driven mindset, with the ability to execute.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, analyze, and maintain budget and schedule baselines for statements of work, direct costs, or overhead pools, coordinating across operating groups as needed.
• Analyze risks and contingency or recovery plans, and make recommendations to budget or schedule owners.
• Develop and present information to senior management.
• Communicate with customers about routine cost, schedule, and budgeting issues.
• Run weekly and monthly reports to ensure accurate cost collection.
• Reconcile data discrepancies and correct cost-charging errors across complex or multiple budgets and pools, including suspense items.
• Develop, integrate, analyze, and update forecasts for statements of work.
• Identify risks and opportunities through detailed analysis and make recommendations to statement-of-work owners.
• Compile data from multiple teams or areas and develop reports to meet regulatory or contractual reporting requirements.
• Participate in regular meetings and proactively support the area’s daily activities.
• Collect and document requirements for training, processes, and new or enhanced tools.
• Develop and present supplemental training materials to meet unique requirements.
• Participate in enterprise-wide or operating-group teams developing courses.
• Troubleshoot process and tool issues, determine root causes, and recommend solutions or refer issues to the appropriate organization.
• Gather, compile, and analyze data for internal compliance process reviews and external regulatory requirements.
• Assist with project startup planning and implementation, including developing work and organization breakdown structures and responsibility assignment matrices.

Benefits

• Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern