Finance Intern

At Kerry we’re obsessed with food and an ambition to provide 2 billion people access to more sustainable nutrition. Kerry is the world’s leading taste and nutrition company for food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers’ most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition.

A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

The food industry is ever-growing, and we pride ourselves in helping customers make better food, in a better way for a better future. Kerry is a global company with several manufacturing facilities across North America. Through the 12-week summer internship program, you will have the opportunity to work and learn in real, impactful roles. The program dates are May 24, 2027 to August 12, 2027.

You will partner with our different functions – ensuring our controls are robust and operating effectively as well as contributing to our business performance by bringing the best financial insights enabling Kerry to deliver on its goals. We strive to be one Finance team that is interconnected and accountable with Finance at the Heart of the Business and are committed to creating an engaging and motivating environment for our people, who are our most valued asset.

You will be exposed to a range of centers of expertise such as

Accountant, Financial Control, Tax and Treasury

• Part of a corporate finance team responsible for multiple tasks in area of Financial Control, Tax, Treasury, General Ledger, Monthly Financial Reporting, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Statutory Accounts, Projections and Budgeting.

• Assist with standardizing of processes, highlighting and implementing changes within finance team to drive efficiencies.

• Assist in preparation and presentation of timely, accurate, value-added information to senior executive including financial analysis and presentations that assists in strategic decision making.

• Assist with monitoring and measuring financial performance of Kerry Americas against Key Performance Indicators. This includes working closely with commercial teams and Business Finance leads to analyze and report drivers of performance on a regular basis.

• Key resource to business unit Executive Management in development of business strategies including marketing, selling, and profitability improvement.

• Forecasting, Budgeting and Monthly Reporting responsibility for business along with communication to the business team.

• Support executive and leadership meeting agendas including presentation material, analyses and support.

• Understand market trends, dynamics, price/volume trends and outlooks in order to recommend actions that lead to profitable growth.

• Support sales/marketing with analysis aimed at customer retention, pricing, business at risk, new business and business lost impacts

• Manage new business pipeline reporting and assess impact of new opportunities on the business portfolio.

• Assess key commodity markets risk and the impact on pricing.

• Determine, validate and communicate quotes, credits and pricing to business teams

• Review and monitor centralized processes, while collaborating with Plant Controllers to ensure adherence and while developing and implementing corrective actions.

• Analyze and book material purchase accruals, inventory adjustments, freight accrual and market adjustments in relation to North American inventory at each manufacturing location

• Variance…