Accounting Internship Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Accounting Internship to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Handling sensitive or confidential information with honesty and integrity;
- Assisting with research, filing, data entry, and recording and maintaining accurate and complete financial records;
- Preparing financial reports, such as balance sheets and income statements, invoices, and other documents;
- Shadowing members of the firm as they perform their duties;
- Working with bookkeeping software;
- Respond to inquiries from client and work with client to gather necessary information for completion of required documents;
- Respond to client and firm associate requests in a timely, accurate, positive and professional manner;
- Learning how to work as part of the Accounting team to compile and analyze data, track information, and support the company or clients;
- Proactively identify improvement opportunities in processes to enhance efficiency;
- Taking on additional tasks or projects to learn more about accounting and office operations;
- Collates and copy financial data as requested;
- Creates and prepares various financial support schedules;
- Generates financial reports in SAP or other accounting systems;
- Performs filing as needed of various financial documents;
- General Accounting: Completes bank and/or account reconciliations.
Requirements:
- + GPA Preferred;
- On track for a Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline;
- Must be a recent graduate or actively working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Accounting;
- Satisfactory completion of introductory accounting courses and a basic understanding of accounting and financial principles;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills;
- High level of efficiency, accuracy, and responsibility;
- Aptitude for math, proficiency with computers;
- Motivation and strong desire to take on new challenges and learn as much as possible.