Audit Intern

Job Description

Audit Intern | Cliffton Verge

The Tone:
This is an Audit Intern position at Cliffton Verge, focusing on supporting accounting, financial reporting, and data analysis within the company’s Assurance practice. Cliffton Verge provides definitive auditing services, ensuring capital markets and clients can rely on their insights. This role offers a significant launchpad for your career, enabling you to gain a deep understanding of business operations and apply your accounting expertise to solve complex challenges. You will contribute to protecting the capital markets and the investing public.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Temporary
• Location: Hybrid
• Pay: $37–$48 hourly
• Team: Team-led and leader-enabled
• Mission: Support accounting, financial reporting, and data analysis to help solve complex business challenges.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analysis: Identify potential audit issues and unusual financial statement relationships through detailed analytical trend analysis.
• Client Service: Deliver exceptional service and maintain professionalism while working within client environments.
• Compliance: Operate effectively within a regulated environment, focusing on protecting capital markets and the investing public.
• Relationship Building: Develop and maintain client relationships to provide definitive and reliable auditing services.
• Insight Sharing: Communicate value-added insights discovered through data analysis to the company’s clients.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-level professional holding or predicted to achieve an undergraduate or graduate degree in Accounting. A strong academic record with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) is required, with preference for a 3.2 or higher.
• Experience: Demonstrable plan for meeting the minimal educational requirements for CPA licensure in your base state prior to full-time employment and for passing the CPA exam. Willingness to travel and work beyond standard hours when necessary, with travel potentially required based on client and project needs.
• Skills: Excellent English language communication skills. Access to reliable transportation to/from the company office and client sites (driver’s license strongly recommended). Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship, both now and in the future.
• Bonus: An interest in working within a team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model, expecting 40-60% in-person work over the course of an engagement. For candidates interested in the Government & Public Sector, U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance or higher are required.