Junior Accounting Associate (12 Month Internship)

Job Description

Junior Accounting Associate (12 Month Internship) | L’Oréal

The Tone:
This is a 12-month paid internship at L’Oréal, located in Tampa, Florida. For over a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to the beauty business, aiming to offer the best of beauty to each person globally in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity, and responsibility. This role is crucial as it fully integrates associates into the day-to-day activities of a team, provides responsibility for an individual strategic project, and offers opportunities to present insights to senior management, helping to develop future leaders at the #1 Beauty Tech company in the world.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: 12-Month Internship
• Location: Hybrid, Tampa, FL

• Team: Reporting to the Head of Accounting within the accounting team.
• Mission: To prepare, summarize, and analyze accounting information, support monthly reporting, and contribute to strategic projects for the accounting team and worldwide headquarters.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, PowerBI (a plus), SAP (helpful but not required)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Reporting: Prepare, summarize, and analyze accounting information for various subjects and provide support with reporting on a monthly basis.
• Validation: Analyze and validate accounting information for monthly consolidated reporting to worldwide headquarters via a proprietary group reporting system.
• Analysis & Projects: Perform ad-hoc analysis or various special projects as assigned, including account analysis, process improvement, or systems enhancement.
• Implementation: Assist with the implementation of various accounting projects.
• Communication: Attend project management meetings and summarize discussions to share with the Head of Accounting.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Must be a recent graduate within the past 12 months from an Undergraduate program in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Experience: Strong academic background evidenced by a GPA of 3.0 or higher; must be legally authorized to work in the US on a permanent ongoing basis without requiring sponsorship.
• Skills: Superior problem solving, decision making, and project management skills; excellent organizational skills, keen attention to detail, and proven ability to handle multiple tasks; strong verbal communication, writing, and interpersonal skills along with the ability to form strong cross-functional relationships; demonstrated analytical skills, both using tools (e.g., Excel) and critical thinking; computer proficiency including Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Bonus: Experience with PowerBI and SAP is a plus.