Accounting Intern

Job Description

Accounting Intern (Summer 2027) | 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 for drone delivery, ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods globally. This role is crucial for ensuring Zipline’s global operations run smoothly and efficiently by handling critical accounting tasks and maintaining accurate financial records.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, South San Francisco, CA
• Pay: $34 hourly
• Team: Finance & Accounting team
• Mission: This intern will support core financial operations, assist with month-end close, and help ensure Zipline’s systems and records are audit-ready.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Google Sheets

What You’ll Actually Do
• Accounting Processes: Assist in preparing journal entries, reconciling accounts, and maintaining accurate records.
• Financial Close Support: Support the monthly and quarterly financial close by compiling data, running reports, and preparing schedules.
• System Support: Learn how Zipline’s finance systems work, and support data entry, analysis, and cleanup projects.
• Fixed Asset Accounting: Partner with our country operations and manufacturing teams to support fixed asset accounting activities, including asset tracking, capitalization, and reconciliation.
• Process Collaboration: Collaborate with the broader Finance, Procurement, and Operations teams to track transactions and streamline processes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Completed the second year of undergraduate studies in Accounting. Masters and PhD candidates are also eligible.
• Experience: Eager to apply academic learning to real-world work in a global, high-growth tech environment.
• Skills: Organized, detail-oriented, comfortable working with numbers, asks good questions, enjoys problem-solving, reliable, resourceful, and motivated to learn by doing.
• Bonus: Familiarity with Excel or Google Sheets, including formulas or pivot tables.