Accounting Intern

Job Description

Accounting Intern | Zipline

The Tone:
This is a full-time internship at Zipline, located in South San Francisco, CA. Zipline designs, builds, and operates the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, focused on drone delivery of essential goods like food and medicine globally. This role supports the core financial operations of a global tech company, ensuring smooth accounting processes crucial for Zipline’s mission to serve all humans equally. The work directly contributes to scaling a system that delivers critical supplies quickly and reliably across continents.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person South San Francisco, CA
• Pay: $34 hourly
• Team: Finance & Accounting team
• Mission: This person ensures Zipline’s global accounting records are accurate and supports financial operations crucial for scale.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Google Sheets

What You’ll Actually Do
• Assist: Prepare journal entries, reconcile accounts, and maintain accurate accounting records as part of core accounting processes.
• Support: Compile data, run financial reports, and prepare schedules to aid the monthly and quarterly financial close.
• Learn: Perform data entry, analysis, and cleanup projects within Zipline’s finance systems.
• Partner: Track, capitalize, and reconcile fixed assets in collaboration with country operations and manufacturing teams.
• Collaborate: Track transactions and streamline processes by working with the broader Finance, Procurement, and Operations teams.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Undergraduate studies completed up to second year in Accounting. Masters and PhD students in Accounting are also eligible.
• Experience: Applying accounting principles learned in coursework to practical, real-world tasks.
• Skills: Organization, attention to detail, numerical proficiency, basic spreadsheet usage (Excel/Google Sheets).
• Bonus: Experience with Excel or Google Sheets formulas and pivot tables; curiosity about accounting in a global tech startup environment.