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Itasca, IL - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Accounting Intern to support our Professional Services Lead Accountant with financial reporting and administrative tasks throughout the summer. This is a non-paid internship.

Key Responsibilities

  • Financial Reporting Support
    • Prepare draft schedules for monthly project revenue and cost of revenue pulling data from Thor project transactions and invoicing modules.
    • Build and update Excel workbooks (including pivot tables and basic Power Pivot models) to analyze trends in work-in-progress deferred revenue and unbilled receivables.
    • Reconcile balance-sheet accounts (e.g. WIP deferred revenue accrued revenue) by matching project billing activity to general-ledger transactions and flagging variances for review.
  • Documentation & Month-End Close Coordination
    • Gather and organize supporting documentation (customer contracts project timesheets contractor invoices) needed to substantiate month-end journal entries.
    • Maintain the month-end close checklist track completion of key tasks (journal entries accruals allocations) and send timely reminders to stake holders.
    • Archive closed-period files in SharePoint or the finance drive ensuring all backup is indexed and easily retrievable for internal and external audits.
  • Meeting & Action-Item Follow-Up
    • Attend the Professional Services monthly review meeting take detailed minutes of discussion points and assigned action items then circulate a consolidated action-item tracker.
    • Proactively follow up with team members on open items (e.g. missing time reports approval of manual journals) updating status and escalations as needed.
  • Data Entry & Record Maintenance
    • Review project transactions (time entries expenses billing adjustments) in the ERP or project accounting system ensuring correct coding to revenue COGS and cost centers.
    • Review and index external documents (customer POs vendor invoices) in the finance document-management system and ensure proper tagging them for easy retrieval.
  • Ad-Hoc Projects & Process Improvements
    • Support initiatives to streamline the month-end close such as by documenting how-to guides building simple reconciliation templates or testing new ERP features.
    • Contribute to special analyses (e.g. profitability by service type contractor cost trends utilization rates) that help the Lead Accountant and FP&A team refine forecasts and identify efficiency opportunities.

Additional Information :

At IFS you will work in a growing global enterprise software company where informal hierarchies promote simplicity and trust with responsibility. We strive to deepen our expertise by taking on challenging and varying work assignments in a collaborative environment together with committed colleagues.

With professionalism and a strong customer focus in everything we do from R&D to Sales and Consultancy we are proud to serve world-class customers all over the globe with our leading products.

If you want to change the status quo well help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

What Were Offering

  • Salary Range: Non-Paid internship

M/F/Disabled/Vet VEVRAA Federal Contractor.  We are a Drug-Free Workplace. Interested candidates should apply at: qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor Equal Opportunity Employer

 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor Equal Opportunity Employer


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time

Employment Type

Full-time

Company Industry

Department / Functional Area

Finance

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