Sales accounting & trade finance - Internship (Open also To Protected Categories, Law 68/99)

Thales is hiring a Sales accounting & trade finance - Internship (Open also To Protected Categories, Law 68/99). Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

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Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this accountant role: aI is not part of the work.
The posting mentions accounting, invoicing and trade finance among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as an internship.
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Intern to manage customer invoicing, cash-in processes, and financial bonding activities within the sales administration team.

accountinginvoicingtrade-financefinancial-reportingbonds

Location: Firenze, Italy

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Sesto Fiorentino is the Headquarter of Thales Italia. It hosts two Domains: Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) and Security (SIX). The activity of GTS domain: Security systems, telecommunications, supervision, control & management information and signalling solutions for trains, trams and metros Regarding railway solutions, Thales is the homologated supplier of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana for Axel Counters, Tunnel Security, Energy Saving, SCADA systems and Asset Management. Italy is Thales Group’s competence centre for tramway signalling solutions. The activity of SIX domain: mission critical solutions and applications for assets and citizens security (supervision, control and information management systems) as well as cybersecurity. Thales offers solutions to protect the information systems and critical data of its civilian and military customers and helps its customers to detect and prevent cyberattacks by devising secure architectures from the design stage, overseeing these architectures and ensures that they are kept in secure working order. Italy is Thales Group’s competence centre for Airport security and operations management solutions.

1. DUTIES

The Sales Administration Accountant has to ensure the proper management of Customer contracts with the relevant invoicing, cash in and bonding accomplishments.

2. JOB ENVIRONMENT

Reporting to the Sales Administration Manager operates in strict co-ordination with the CBU Business Control Teams and with the Project Managers;
Interactions with the Finance’s other professional families
In Italy (General Accounting; Cost Control & Reporting)
Within the Group (Sister Companies Finance Teams; Thales Shared Service Center);
Interactions with banks and insurance companies

3. MAIN ACTIVITIES

In compliance with the group rules and procedures the Sales Administration Accountant:

➢ On daily basis cares the issue of Customer Invoices ensuring that everything is accomplished in time and in good quality;

➢ On daily basis cares the issue of bonds towards Customers (Bid bond, Advance, Performance…) interfacing with banks and insurance companies ensuring that everything is accomplished in time and in good quality;

➢ On weekly basis reconciles cash in with accounts receivables;

➢ During Bid process, give support to the Sales Admin. Mgr. and the Business Control Team in the assessment of contractual terms and conditions with particular attention to the invoicing and payment milestones and process;

➢ In Foreign Bids, give support to the Sales Admin. Mgr. and the Business Control Team in the assessment of the best contractual structure, from a financial and fiscal point of view;

➢ Ensure that Group rules and processes on Customer Contracts Management are followed properly;

4. POSITION REQUIREMENTS & DETAILS

Bachelor or Master Degree in Business Administration/Economics
Fluent in Italian and English, with good knowledge of incoterms and fiscal topics linked to customer contracts

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!

How we rate this

Sales accounting & trade finance - Internship (Open also To Protected Categories, Law 68/99) at Thales rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Sales accounting & trade finance - Internship (Open also To Protected Categories, Law 68/99) is an open job at Thales.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Firenze.
The job was posted on October 5, 2026.
Seniority: intern.
Applications are handled by Thales. Apply on Thales

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AccountingInvoicingTrade FinanceFinancial ReportingBonds

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Pay

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