Tax Intern

Job Description

Tax Intern – Summer 2027 | RRD

The Tone:
This is an internship at RRD, a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions, focused on elevating engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers a trusted portfolio of creative execution and worldwide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings expertise, execution, and scale to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact. This internship is designed to give a rising accounting or finance student practical exposure to corporate tax compliance within a large, multinational organization. The Tax Intern will play a supportive role in preparing critical U.S. Federal and State Corporate Income & Franchise Tax Returns and gain hands-on experience with industry-standard tax and accounting software, contributing to RRD’s operational integrity.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Temporary/Seasonal
• Location: Not specified
• Pay: $25 hourly
• Mission: To provide essential assistance in the preparation of RRD’s U.S. Federal and State Corporate Income & Franchise Tax Returns and their supporting documentation. This role involves conducting light tax research, gathering information for tax notice responses, and contributing to various special projects, thereby supporting the overall tax compliance function and gaining exposure to enterprise software systems.
• Tech Stack: Thomson Reuters OneSource Corporate income tax software, HFM, SAP, OneSource Suite of Products (OTP, OIT, OSA), Microsoft Office (Excel, Windows).

What You’ll Actually Do
• Federal Tax Preparation: Assist with the preparation of RRD’s US Federal Consolidated Form 1120, which includes over 100 U.S. and foreign legal entities, and its supporting work papers.
• State Tax Compliance: Assist with the preparation of RRD’s Corporate State Income & Franchise Tax Returns for over 40 states, including detailed modifications and factor adjustments for specific tax items like GILTI, Section 78, Section 250, DRD, Subpart F, Depreciation, Section 163(j), and Capital Gains/Loss.
• Payment & Filing Management: Assist with the quarterly Federal and State estimated tax payments and extensions to ensure timely submission.
• Research & Support: Conduct light tax research on various topics associated with tax returns, gather information for tax notice responses, and provide assistance on special projects as needed.
• Process Optimization: Contribute to continual process improvement efforts, focusing on embedding standardized processes within tax technology and HFM for streamlined GL balance management, facilitating easy refresh, import, and export of data to/from the OneSource Suite of Products.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or Finance, holding a Rising Junior or Senior status.
• Experience: Demonstrated interest in learning about tax through coursework, having taken an intermediate accounting or tax class, and maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher.
• Skills: Exhibit excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate oneself in a business environment, recognize anomalies, ask relevant questions, and communicate solutions to identified issues. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Excel, Windows) and the capability to quickly adapt to and learn other software skills are required.