What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Intern - Summer 2025 position at Turner Construction Company?
Division: Washington DC Main
Project Location(s): Halethorpe, MD 21227 USA
Minimum Years Experience:
Travel Involved:
Job Type: Regular
Job Classification: Intern
Education: Degree in Progress
Job Family: Finance
Compensation: Intern Non-Exempt
Position Description: Provide financial services support to profit centers. Duties may include any specific accounting functions including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Reconciliation, and Special Services.
Reports to: Accounting Manager, Operational Finance; Accountant, Operational Finance; or Senior Accountant, Operational Finance
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Turner Construction provides flexible benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, financial benefits such as a 401(k) plan, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, wellness benefits, a voluntary legal plan, identity theft, life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
In addition to our extensive benefits offerings, we provide paid vacation, wellness/sick time, holidays, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonuses, and end-of-year appreciation pay.
Qualifications:
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.
Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Project Location(s): Halethorpe, MD 21227 USA
Minimum Years Experience:
Travel Involved:
Job Type: Regular
Job Classification: Intern
Education: Degree in Progress
Job Family: Finance
Compensation: Intern Non-Exempt
Position Description: Provide financial services support to profit centers. Duties may include any specific accounting functions including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Reconciliation, and Special Services.
Reports to: Accounting Manager, Operational Finance; Accountant, Operational Finance; or Senior Accountant, Operational Finance
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist accountant to ensure client contractual requirements are met in regard to billing and accounts receivables.
- Process accounts payable for vendor invoices and ensure accounts are up to date for assigned projects.
- Process accounts payable for subcontractor invoices, and work with accountant to ensure all applicable lien waivers are submitted and contracts and insurance requirements are in place.
- Assist with completing monthly close process, ensuring all client bills and project costs are posted or accrued if work is in place and of material value.
- Assist with all internal and external audit requests.
- Facilitate data entry processes for project specific vendor invoices and prepare multi-project invoices for distribution to central financial center for input and posting.
- Provide administrative duties as related to invoice processing (i.e. vendor setup and updates, sales and use tax reporting, collection and distribution of client tax exempt certificates).
- Help prepare Turner owner applications for payment by assisting with compiling all supporting invoice backup.
- Provide supervisor with periodic progress reports.
- Relate and apply knowledge acquired in academic setting to company setting.
- Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior.
- Maintain professional relationships with company employees, customers and so forth.
- Prepare for and participate in conferences and other opportunities of learning afforded by company.
- Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.
Turner Construction provides flexible benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, financial benefits such as a 401(k) plan, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, wellness benefits, a voluntary legal plan, identity theft, life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
In addition to our extensive benefits offerings, we provide paid vacation, wellness/sick time, holidays, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonuses, and end-of-year appreciation pay.
Qualifications:
- Enrolled at 4-year college or university offering accredited and credentialed degree programs, recommended majors include and not limited to Accounting or Finance, with at least 1 year of education and basic knowledge of finance or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience
- Must be willing to work standard work week
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills including student leadership, volunteerism, or other community involvement
- Passionate and willing to learn about overall Turner Finance business strategy, culture and core values
- Assume personal and professional responsibilities for actions and activities
- Enthusiastic, proactive, and eager to tackle new projects and ideas, flexible, adaptable and with attention to detail
- Able to work independently, with some oversight, and in team environment
- Exceptional organizational skills with ability to document and manage accurate and timely information
- Professional and clear verbal and written communication skills
- Computer data entry, database and MS Office skills, intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.
Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.