Senior Finance Assistant - Intern

Reference: JOB-20260317-00011

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Job Type: Internship

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Years of Experience: 1 years

Salary: N/A - N/A

Deadline: 2026-03-31

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Description

🔑 Core Responsibilities
In a "Senior" internship capacity, you will likely bridge the gap between junior clerks and staff accountants.

Financial Reporting & Analysis: Assisting in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements. You may be tasked with performing variance analysis—identifying why actual spending differed from the budget.

Audit Support: Preparing schedules and gathering documentation for internal and external auditors. This requires a high degree of organization and an understanding of compliance frameworks.

Advanced Reconciliation: Moving beyond simple bank recs to complex inter-company reconciliations or investigating long-standing discrepancies in accounts payable/receivable.

Budgeting & Forecasting: Supporting senior management in gathering data from various departments to build the next fiscal year's budget.

Process Improvement: Identifying "bottlenecks" in the current accounting software or manual workflows and suggesting automated solutions.

🛠 Technical Skill Set
To excel, you should be comfortable with more than just basic spreadsheets.

📊 Advanced Excel
You will likely spend 60% of your time here. Proficiency should include:

Pivot Tables: For summarizing large datasets.

XLOOKUP / Index-Match: For merging data from different reports.

Data Validation: Ensuring that data entry from other departments remains clean.

💻 ERP & Accounting Systems
Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is often a prerequisite. Common systems include:

SAP / Oracle: For large-scale corporate environments.

Sage / QuickBooks / Xero: For mid-sized firms or specialized service providers.

Internal Dashboards: Navigating custom-built financial interfaces for reporting.

⚖️ Regulatory Knowledge
Understanding the local and international standards is vital, especially regarding:

IFRS or GAAP: The foundational "rules" of accounting.

Tax Compliance: Knowledge of VAT, withholding tax, and corporate filing requirements.