Accounting Intern

Job Description

Accounting Intern | Progyny

The Tone:
This is a paid internship at Progyny, located in the United States, with specific compensation details provided for New York City-based applicants. Progyny is a global leader in women’s health and family building solutions, aiming to empower healthier journeys through transformative fertility, family building, and women’s health benefits. This Accounting Intern role is essential for maintaining accurate financial data, supporting the company’s financial processes, and ensuring compliance. The intern will play a crucial part in completing accounting tasks, preparing financial statements and reports, and ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements for a publicly traded company.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Temporary
• Location: New York, NY
• Pay: $25.00/hour – $50.00/hour
• Mission: This person ensures accurate financial data, supports company financial processes, and prepares critical financial statements and reports for a publicly traded company.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Support: Contribute to the smooth execution of month-end and year-end closing processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial data.
• Prepare: Assist in the thorough preparation of financial statements and their related footnotes, including critical documents like Form 10-Q for SEC filing.
• Ensure: Maintain strict compliance with established accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal controls in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requirements.
• Collaborate: Work closely with various internal departments to efficiently gather necessary financial information and support cross-functional objectives.
• Develop: Gain significant hands-on experience in corporate accounting within a publicly traded company, enhancing skills in financial analysis, reporting, SEC financial reporting, and SOX compliance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Must be actively enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program, pursuing an Accounting major or holding an equivalent academic concentration.
• Experience: Demonstrated proficiency in working with large volumes of data and utilizing pivot tables; comfortable collaborating with and presenting information to executives; experience or aptitude for working independently with initial guidance.
• Skills: Strong command of Microsoft Office applications including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word; highly organized and methodical with a strong attention to detail; possesses an adaptive and inquisitive mindset as a natural problem solver; driven to deliver results and capable of establishing rapport, earning trust, and effectively collaborating with others.
• Bonus: Prefers to operate autonomously when given clear initial guidance and requests, effectively leveraging available cross-functional resources and teams.