What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Accounting Intern position at ANDREAS STIHL AG & Co. KG?
Financial Accounting Intern
Datum : 03.02.2025
Standort : Virginia Beach, VA, US, 23452
Unternehmen : STIHL
About STIHL INC :
As a family-owned company, it’s the people who continue to make STIHL a successful, world-class brand. Since revolutionizing the forestry industry in Germany with the first electric chainsaw in 1926, the STIHL name has remained synonymous with outstanding innovations, high-quality products and comprehensive service.
Internship Summary :
STIHL Inc. has a full time opening for a Financial Accounting Intern in our Finance department.
The Financial Accounting Intern will gain an understanding of corporate accounting including financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, tax and financial analysis. The focus of the internship will be in the financial reporting and accounts payable areas. The intern will learn how to use SAP and more advanced Excel skills. They will be responsible for posting invoices, preparing and posting journal entries, analyzing general ledger accounts, shadowing finance teams and completing ad hoc projects. The intern will be participating in month-end and quarter-end closing processes that include financial statement preparation and review as well as reporting to Germany .
Internship Goals :
- Understand the monthly accounting cycle as it relates to STIHL locally in the US and globally in Germany. The intern will learn the closing timeline, inputs necessary, dependent variables and the review and reporting process.
- Learn SAP from a financial standpoint with a heavy focus on accounts payable and financial accounting. The intern will be able to trace transactions through the system and analyze the GL accounts for various balance sheet and income statement accounts. In their GL account review, they will learn various advanced Excel skills such as vlookups, pivot tables and other formulas that they will be able to use in the future.
- Learn about corporate finance as a whole. While the majority of their internship will be in accounts payable and financial accounting, the intern will receive an entry level perspective of the other accounting and finance departments at STIHL such as tax, accounts receivable, cost accounting, fixed assets inventory audit and financial planning and analysis. This is done by presentations, one-on-one shadowing and ad hoc projects.
Internship Requirements :
Academic Year : Junior or Senior
Area of Study : Accounting
Preferred GPA : 3.0
Software Knowledge : Microsoft Office, with a basic understanding of Excel
Internship Information :
Work Hours : 8 : 30am - 5pm
Department : Finance
Compensation : $20 / hour
Wir freuen uns auf die Bewerbung :
Salary : $20
