Accounting Intern (Fall 2026)

Available location: Austin TX

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated and tech-savvy Controllership Operations Accounting Intern to join our Accounts Payable (AP) team. This isnt your traditional data-entry internship. While you will gain hands-on experience with core accounting operations your primary focus will be on the future of finance: process optimization and AI automation.

You will help us modernize our Procure-to-Pay (P2P) lifecycle acting as a bridge between operational accounting and technological innovation. If you are passionate about finding smarter ways to work and want to see how artificial intelligence is transforming corporate finance this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

Process Improvement & P2P Optimization

• Support analyzing and mapping current Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflows to identify bottlenecks manual touchpoints and inefficiencies.
• Collaborate with the controllership team to design and implement streamlined processes that reduce cycle times and improve accuracy.
• Assist in developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for newly optimized workflows.

AI & Automation Projects

• Support the rollout of AI initiatives within the AP function (e.g. automated invoice data extraction intelligent workflow routing).
• Act as a liaison between the accounting team and technical developers helping to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Help test and validate new automation software ensuring data integrity between our financial systems and new AI tools.

Core AP & Employee Expense Operations

• Provide ad-hoc support for invoice processing and payment run workflows.
• Assist with the auditing and compliance of employee Travel & Expense (T&E) transaction reports.
• Assist with month-end close activities related to AP and general controllership duties.

Qualifications & Skills

• Education: Currently pursuing a Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting Finance Management Information Systems (MIS) Data Analytics or a related field.
• Technical Aptitude: A strong foundational understanding of technology data analytics or AI-related projects is highly preferred. While coding is not required for this role you should possess the technical fluency to communicate effectively with developers grasp complex system architectures and understand how automation is built.
• Systems Experience: Familiarity with ERP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle NetSuite) or expense management platforms (e.g. Navan) is a plus.
• Analytical Mindset: A natural problem-solver who doesnt just ask how a process works but why it works that way and how it can be improved through technology.
• Detail-Oriented: Ability to maintain high accuracy when dealing with financial data while simultaneously seeing the big picture of process design.

What You Will Learn

• How a corporate controllership function operates at scale.
• Practical hands-on experience deploying AI and automation tools in a real-world financial environment.
• Project management and cross-functional communication skills specifically bridging the gap between business and IT.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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