Accounting Intern

Job Description

Intern – Accounting | Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Company

The Tone:
This is a full-time internship at Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Company, scheduled from May 17th through July 23rd, with a required final presentation in New Orleans on July 22nd. The program offers a consistent and meaningful learning experience within a financial institution. This role is crucial for supporting daily accounting operations and contributing to the modernization of the company’s financial and technological infrastructure. The intern will help transform current system data to a more digitized environment and uphold the integrity of the information technology department.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Greater New Orleans Area (with a final presentation in New Orleans)

• Mission: To support daily accounting operations and participate in technological projects to transform current system infrastructure and data to a more digitized environment.
• Tech Stack: Excel, databases, Power BI

What You’ll Actually Do
• Operations Support: Support daily accounting operations, including entering and updating financial transactions and assisting with reconciliations.
• Reporting & Analysis: Help prepare routine reports and basic financial analyses by compiling, reviewing, and validating data.
• Document Management: Maintain and organize financial documents for audits, compliance reviews, and internal reporting purposes.
• Transaction Processing: Assist with accounts payable and receivable tasks and verify the accuracy of transactions.
• System Optimization: Clean up and streamline documentation, spreadsheets, and workflows across systems and shared drives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Progress toward an Accounting degree, with rising senior status or advanced coursework preferred. Candidates should possess a fundamental understanding of accounting concepts, including debits, credits, journals, and ledgers. A minimum preferred cumulative GPA of 3.0 is expected.
• Experience: Demonstrated strong proficiency in Excel, encompassing the use of formulas, pivot tables, and data cleanup techniques.
• Skills: Highly detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data. Possesses strong analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills, with the ability to learn new systems and collaborate across departments.
• Bonus: Experience utilizing databases, Power BI, or other reporting/coding tools is a plus. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis.