Accounting Intern

Excellent opportunity to obtain experience in accounting and finance by executing a range of financial activities such as accounts payable, receivable, payroll, fixed assets, cost accounting, month-end close, and ad hoc analysis, and financial reporting.

The Internship Program focuses on developing fresh talent by exposing interns to the fascinating and challenging world of business and manufacturing accounting. Interns acquire important insight into real-world projects, activities, challenges, and opportunities in the industry.

Essential Functions

• Participate in the month end close process, preparing journal entries related to inventory, sales, cost of sales and operating adjustments, reconciliations and month end financial statements.
• Provide inventory and transactional analysis, including scrap, production variance and inventory valuation variance.
• Active participant in the development, implementation and support of Lean in Manufacturing and Finance
• Gain understanding of SOX and internal controls and adhere to those processes.
• Miscellaneous projects to support the finance team such as Audits.

Qualifications

• Be enrolled in a business degree program, such as accounting or finance major or minor or general business, completed the foundational accounting courses (Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting) and able to apply principles of accounting to analyze diverse and complex financial information.
• Possess analytical and technical accounting skills required to understand, analyze, research, and recommend opportunities for improvements.
• Be able to manage multiple projects.
• Have good organizational, communication, interpersonal, analytical, skills.
• Have experience with Excel and pivot tables.
• Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.

Parker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on grounds of age, race, religion, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability in relation to recruitment and employment.