Alcoa Australia
Vacation Student - Finance WA (Nov 2025)
Perth
Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 35 / Hour
- 1 vacancy
- Opens 21 May 2025
- Apply by 10 Jun 2025
- Start date 24 Nov 2025
Shape your career by joining Alcoa’s Vacation Student program!
Based in WA (Corporate Office, Pinjarra or Wagerup Alumina Refinery), this is your opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.
Become a valued part of the team that’s reinventing the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves, and flies.
About the role
Express your interest in Summer vacation work, pre-register now to be amongst the first to be notified of future opportunities. This is a 12-week paid summer placement typically commencing November and running through to February. Throughout the program you’ll experience professional growth, technical expansion, and become an integral part of our vibrant community, where inspiration and daily challenges await.
During the program, you will be matched with a senior specialist who will offer hands-on training, mentoring, and coaching. The program is designed to support you in becoming a creative problem solver, assisting you in completing meaningful projects that will be assigned to you.
What’s on offer?
- Exposure to industry and a future career at Alcoa.
- An attractive hourly rate of pay for the hours you work.
- Meaningful project work that provides you with valuable hands-on work experience
- Working locally, in an onsite environment enabling you to return home to friends and family every night.
- Inclusion and diversity networks; shaping a culture where everyone is welcome, respected and heard.
- Be part of our commitment to sustainability, delivering world class technology and innovations that lead the aluminium industry!
- A workplace culture that strongly values your safety.
- Increased opportunity to gain a place in the Alcoa Graduate Program after you have completed your degree
- Access to the Alcoa Live Well program with a selection of health & wellbeing discount offers to help you live your best life!
What you’ll be doing
As a Finance Vacation Student at Alcoa, you will be:
- Based on site at our Boragoon office.
- Take part in special site-related projects providing exposure to the business and learning about our internal procedures.
- Provide support to financial reporting, internal audits, asset inventory, reconciliations, and month-end processes.
You will be given an appropriate level of responsibility to handle assigned project(s), utilizing your innovative thinking, eagerness to learn, and passion for growth to make meaningful contributions to the business. In our open-minded workplace, your ideas will be highly valued within a supportive environment that encourages creative thinking.
If you are on the path to graduate or have recently completed tertiary qualifications in Commerce; Finance, Accounting or a related discipline, we want to hear from you!
About you
We are interested in hearing from curious university students who are:
- Ideally, in their penultimate year of study, however we do accept applications across all year groups.
- Self-motivated and passionate for their chosen discipline, eager to learn and expand their knowledge.
- Capable of working independently with the ability to communicate and engage with multiple stakeholders to obtain a project outcome.
- Strong team players with effective time management, organisational and problem-solving skills.
- Available to commence end of November for a full-time 12-week period ending February.
- Have the ability to travel to and from your work location each day.
Become a valued part of the team that’s reinventing the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies.
Application and Recruitment process
- Submit your online application via the link provided or the Alcoa Careers website, and include a cover letter, resume and academic transcript.
- Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete:
- A short online video interview.
- Psychometric testing
- Reference checking
- Pre-employment medical assessment
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management
About the employer
Alcoa Australia
3.9
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Mining, Oil & Gas
Alcoa thrives by developing best practices that improve our bauxite, alumina and aluminium business units. Join us on our journey!
Pros and cons of working at Alcoa Australia
Pros
Getting to rotate between different roles and experience different parts of the company.
Training and career development Great support structure Flexible working arrangements.
Leisure days off are a great perk.
I like the flexibility to work from home twice per week, and the ability to flex hours based on commitments if needed.
The variety of work keeps things interesting and engaging.
Cons
The lack of structure and care for the Graduate Program. Especially with no emphasis to the managers/supervisors to set a mentor and a training schedule.
Sometimes it feels like you're just a number.
Old systems and technology used.
The offices need upgrading as well as the equipment in the offices.
The business promotes inclusion, but they continue to hire and promote people in the business whose values do not align with the message they are trying to convey.