Healthcare Audit & Accounting Intern

Job Description

Healthcare Audit Internship-Spring 2028 | Wipfli

The Tone:
This is a Healthcare Audit Internship at Wipfli, a professional services firm specializing in accounting, tax, and consulting, located in Wipfli offices or client sites locally, regionally, or nationally. Wipfli emphasizes that its people are core to its ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. This role is crucial in supporting healthcare audit and accounting functions, contributing directly to the firm’s mission of providing a professional home where individuals can make a difference for clients and associates. The firm believes in flexibility, focuses on relationships, and encourages individual career paths.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person (Wipfli offices or client sites, local, regional, or national)
• Pay: $28.50/hour
• Team: Part of the Healthcare Audit Team, supporting client engagements
• Mission: Support the audit, review, and compliance testing processes for healthcare clients to ensure adherence to professional and firm standards.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Client Support: Respond to client and firm associate requests in a timely, accurate, positive, and professional manner.
• Information Gathering: Work with clients to gather necessary information for the completion of required documents.
• Audit Procedures: Perform audit, review, and compliance testing procedures in accordance with firm and professional standards.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare or review client-prepared financial statements, footnotes, management reports, and other engagement outputs.
• Reimbursement Assistance: Assist the team with Medicare and Medicaid/Medical Cost Report Reimbursement tasks.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, with completion of a corporate or individual taxation class. Entry-level with above-average knowledge in accounting, demonstrated by a preferred 3.0 GPA or higher.
• Experience: Working towards eligibility to sit for the CPA exam upon graduation.
• Skills: Data analysis, strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines, independent thinking and decision-making, and technical competency with GAAP.
• Bonus: Preferred coursework in Data Analytics or Big Data.