Finance & Accounting Intern (6-Week Immersion Program)
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Internship Description
Are you a Junior / Senior / Graduating Senior Business, Finance, or Accounting student eager to gain diverse, real-world experience and explore career paths in a dynamic, impact-driven firm?
Leverage is seeking enthusiastic and analytical Finance & Accounting Interns to join our team for a comprehensive 6-week immersion program. This internship is strategically designed to provide you with hands-on exposure to both the meticulous world of accounting and the insightful realm of data and financial analysis.
About Leverage: Leverage is dedicated to driving financial empowerment and long-term value creation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. Our mission is to embed expert financial leadership and a relentless focus on data-driven action deep within their operations, delivering significant and measurable financial breakthroughs – tangible profit and cash flow improvements – within the first 90 days of engagement. We are committed to fostering a culture built on core beliefs such as measurable client progress, continuous learning and adaptability, diverse capabilities, and delivering outcome.
Internship Summary: As a Finance & Accounting Intern, you will experience two critical facets of our operations, spending three weeks immersed in the accounting function and three weeks in data/financial analysis. You will work closely with our experienced teams, gaining practical exposure to ensuring financial data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, as well as translating data into actionable strategies. This program is an incredible opportunity to apply your academic knowledge, develop essential business and financial skills, and understand "how we do things at Leverage". You will contribute directly to our commitment to demonstrating tangible client impact.
Internship Requirements
- Academic Excellence: Currently enrolled in the third or fourth year of a Bachelor's degree program in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related quantitative field, or a recent graduate from such a program. Strong academic record demonstrating a solid understanding of fundamental financial concepts.
- Analytical Mindset: Possesses a curious and analytical approach to problems, with an eagerness to work with numbers and derive meaning from data. This aligns with our focus on "Data-Driven Insight".
- Attention to Detail: Shows meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy and completeness in all tasks, crucial for both accounting and analysis. This supports our value that "Delivering outcome distinguishes our credibility".
- Eagerness to Learn & Adapt: Demonstrates a strong desire for continuous learning, adaptation, and proactively seeking new knowledge and skills. This embodies our belief in "Learning, adaptability & creativity determine our competence" and "Adaptive Innovation, Continuous Mastery".
- Proactive & Organized: Shows initiative, is well-organized, and capable of managing tasks efficiently in a dynamic environment.
- Team Player: Exhibits strong collaboration skills and a willingness to work effectively within diverse teams. This reflects our core belief in "Diverse capabilities to lead, empower & inspire one another takes us further".
- Cultural Alignment: An inherent understanding and enthusiasm for contributing to an environment where "measurable client's progress defines our value". Eager to see how their work contributes to tangible financial breakthroughs for our clients.
