College Student Intern - Financial Services

The Financial Services department are a team of fixers. We work to support the City through financial reporting and accounting, accounts payable, payroll, budget, cash management, debt, compliance, purchasing, pension, special projects, alarm billing, parking enforcement, meter reading and utility billing customer service.

Financial Services provides relevant, timely financial data to the public and decision makers, and safeguards the City's assets through appropriate controls, accounting, and procurement practices.

As a College Student Intern with Financial Services, you’ll work closely with our Accounting Manager as well as internal stakeholders to support ongoing projects and daily operations to produce timely financial statements. In this position you’ll learn what it means to provide public service through governmental accounting.

• Receive bank statements from our Treasury Manager via Excel, and record daily transactions to post to the appropriate general ledger account within Oracle Fusion Cloud
• Communicate with internal divisions and departments to fulfill journal entry requests to ensure accuracy of financial documents and compliance with relevant legal regulations.
• Prioritizes assigned projects and tasks to support the department in producing timely financial statements.
• Research, analyze and complete assigned projects in a timely manner by working closely with Accounting and Treasury personnel.
• Assist accounting divisions with financial reports by collecting information, preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statements, banking and investment transactions, financial statements entries, and other reports.
• Assist department with audits and resolving discrepancies depending on the needs of the tax periods.
• Attending meetings and seminars to expand knowledge of the accounting and financial fields.

• Standard modern office practices and procedure.
• Business and Accounting English usage and spelling.
• The theory, principles, methods, and best practices of governmental accounting.

• Communication – both oral and written, especially as related to providing detailed communications to internal clients.
• Critical thinking – using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Microsoft Office Suite products to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, to a moderate degree of proficiency.
• Writing Composition - write professional and effective letters, memos, emails, reports, and supporting documentation.

• Work independently with minimum supervision.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with associates and supervisors.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Prepare, analyze, and evaluate financial systems.
• Conduct themselves in a professional manner.
• Maintain the confidentiality of any information obtained through the Internship Program.
• Have a very high sense of rigor and attention to detail to prevent any form of mistake and identify variances for accuracy that may occur in the process of documenting financial information.

• The Financial Services Department accepts Interns during each college semester.

• The Financial Services Department hosts up to two (2) Interns per college semester.

• Currently enrolled in, or will be entering, their junior year, or higher, at an accredited College or University as a full or part-time student.
• Has completed basic undergraduate level coursework in accounting, business and/or finance.
• Has a current minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
• Able to work a minimum of 12 hours per week not to exceed a maximum of 25 hours per week (typically between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday thru Friday).
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

• Completed junior year of undergraduate studies by June 2026, with an anticipated graduation by end of 2027.
• Has successfully completed coursework which includes a moderate degree of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Data analysis.
• Preference will be given to those candidates with previous experience in accounting or finance OR with those…