About the Role
Are you ready to gain hands-on experience in finance and accounting while contributing to meaningful work? Join our team as a Finance & Accounting Intern this summer and immerse yourself in a dynamic environment where your skills will help drive organizational success.
We are looking for a highly driven individual to join our Finance & Accounting team. As a Finance & Accounting Intern, you will provide the Bearing Tree team and our partner organizations with critical backend support that empowers everyone to do their best work. You must be curious, entrepreneurial, self-accountable, and solutions-driven. Additionally, you are passionate about the work of our partner organizations and are committed to doing everything you can to help them be successful.
This internship will report to Tina Maue, our Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Get to Do:
Create Meaningful Insights: Assist in designing financial reports and providing trend analysis to help drive decision-making and strategy.
Be Part of the Big Picture: Support the external audit and review of our financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Master Monthly Reconciliations: Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations to keep our financials on point.
Hone Your Analytical Skills: Review intercompany balances and ensure accurate alignment every month.
Dive Into Business Operations: Take on additional duties and tasks that contribute to the smooth operation of our finance processes.
Ensure Financial Harmony: Collaborate with the accounting team to maintain balanced trial balances monthly.
Contribute to Big Ideas: Assist the Finance team with special projects and initiatives designed to enhance our operations and strategy.
Why You’ll Love This Internship:
Real-World Experience: Gain hands-on exposure to financial reporting, audits, reconciliations, and business operations.
Collaborative Environment: Work with a team of dedicated professionals who value your contributions and support your growth.
Professional Development: Build practical skills and strengthen your resume while working on impactful projects.
Make a Difference: Play a key role in ensuring our financial processes support a mission that truly matters.
The ideal candidate will have:
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
A willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and systems.
Culture
Our purpose is to make it easier for mission-driven organizations to focus their efforts on creating a better world. Our team works with innovative nonprofits with ambitious visions around free market public policy, media and journalism. We provide our partners with affordable and effortless access the critical expertise, processes, technology and care to make sure all of the operational details of running the organization are addressed so our partners can focus their efforts on changing the world.
Success at Bearing Tree requires more than professional ambition or a particular skill set. It requires the ability to operate within a culture of mutual support and high expectations. Here are some of the primary beliefs we live out in our work:
Mission-driven: We work with partners who, like us, are striving every day to create a better country and world
Professional: We deliver world-class expertise and industry-leading technology to provide superior quality, value and service in all we do
Dedicated: We are fully committed to our mission of “making it easier to make a difference” and understand the critical role we play in our partners’ success
Collegial: We develop productive, enjoyable and lasting relationships that greatly enhance the value we deliver – and get – from our work
Trustworthy: We recognize the importance and sensitivity of the nature of the work we do with our partners, and we strive to do the right thing, all the time
Grateful: We are thankful and humbled to have our abilities multiplied in driving positive impact across an array of incredibly worthy causes The ideal candidate is passionate about the work Bearing Tree and our partners are doing to improve the lives of Americans and excited to advance the organization’s work through providing critical operational support to teams and partners.
Location
The Finance & Accounting Internship is based in our Chicago office and an in-office role.
To Apply
Please send your resume and cover letter to Sandy Florczyk at sflorczyk@bearingtree.com.