Summer Corporate Intern - Accounting

Career Area:

Students and Graduates

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you’rejoining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don’tjust talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

During the Corporate Accounting Internship Program, you will have the opportunity to gain valuable on-the-job experience and contribute to real-world projects in one or more of the following areas including Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Tax Accounting, Global Tax, Financial Systems, Auditing, and Research & Development Accounting. As an accounting intern, you will perform the same tasks as our entry-level accountants including budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, tax compliance, analysis, and other special projects.

Summer 2027: 5/17/2027 - 8/06/2027

This is a 40-hour-per-week onsite work assignment, Monday through Friday, lasting
12 weeks in the summer.

What you will get:
Besides exciting work, Corporate Interns will experience:

• Comprehensive internship orientation
• Travel Reimbursement
• Tours of state-of-the-art manufacturing and research facilities
• Product Demonstrations
• Various social events
• Networking with leadership
• Intern round table discussions
• Business skill building
• Career discussion with leaders and experts
• Resume and Interview workshop
• Paid holidays
• And more!

Thousands of Caterpillar employees come to work every day. While they perform their daily tasks, they’re contributing to the work of a powerful global team. At Caterpillar, we know that innovation happens step-by-step, piece-by-piece, person-by-person. Everyone has a vital role to play in our organization. Modest, small projects can grow and evolve into groundbreaking, world-changing technologies, machines, services, and more through collaboration and teamwork in a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Caterpillar couldn’t be the company it is today without the men and women who shape it by producing their best work.

• Creating reports on financial performance for internal and external use.
• Take part in special projects and ad hoc reporting requests.
• Estimate various forecast and budget scenarios.
• Specifies, builds, maintains, and runs data extracts from various subsystems that contain account-level information.
• Produces a daily balance sheet to assist the trading desk.
• Posting entries, verifying, and reconciling input to financial reporting systems.
• Entering transactions and reconciling various reports

• Must be currently pursuing a degree at a 4-year accredited university/college in an Accounting degree program, at the time of application and throughout the internship program.
• Minimum 3.0/4.0 GPA (both Accounting GPA & Cumulative GPA).
• 12 completed semester hours at a 4-year university before the start of the internship.
• If a transfer student must have 12 semester hours completed at a 4-year university.

• Previous accounting internship and/or relevant work experience.
• Completed Intermediate Accounting or first 300-level accounting course by the start of the internship.
• Strong initiative, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Leadership involvement in student associations.
• Intermediate user of Microsoft Excel.

• Locations:
  Peoria, IL, East Peoria, IL, Mossville, IL, Morton, IL, Mapleton, IL, Seguin, TX, Irving, TX, FT. Worth, TX, Houston, TX, Lafayette, IN, Franklin, IN, and…