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Accounting Internship

Role

Part-time Accounting Internship

Location

Home office
1 Gorham Island Rd, Westport, CT 06880, United States

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Accounting Internship

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Support routine activities done by Finance Team according to the priorities, such as reconciling & analyzing account balances during month end close process, etc.
  • Learn to prepare clear, well-structured and effective account reconciliations related to various accounts
  • Perform analytical reviews and conduct research; strong critical thinking skills to meet business requirements
  • Prepare and verify documents for financial statement audit purposes
  • Be engaged in the weekly and monthly team meetings of Finance Team

Cash Management Responsibilities

  • Assist in daily check retention and maintaining log of check deposits received
  • Assist with coding check deposits to the appropriate trial balance accounts
  • Participate in the completion of monthly bank reconciliations
  • Hospital outreach – maintaining correspondences with local hospital personnel relating to cash handling processes (i.e., clarification on incoming checks for coding, etc.)

Leases and Fixed Asset Management Responsibilities

  • Review of Capital expenses – review vendor invoices to identify capital expenditures that require reclass to fixed assets (8 hours /week)
  • Assist with maintaining our Leases email inbox for landlord requests, hospital manager questions, etc.
  • Assist with ongoing Fixed Asset projects, such as reviewing CIP, subledger clean-up, etc.
  • Assist with preparing monthly lease rollforwards in accordance with ASC 842
  • Assist with month-end tasks, including review of vendor invoices to identify items that have service periods in excess of one period and the related preparation of journal entries to amortize prepaid licenses, memberships and other expenses, for items that require amortization

Acquisition Accounting Responsibilities

  • Assist with preparing journal entries for initial funds flow of hospitals acquired
  • Gather and upload documents needed for valuation specialists
  • Review legal and other purchase related documents (purchase agreements, disclosures, employee agreements)
  • Populate and assist with maintaining tracker for acquisition documents relating to items needed for valuation specialists to complete work
  • Assist in preparing purchase price allocation (PPA) journal entries upon receipt of completed valuations
  • Review of legal invoice expenses
  • Assist with month end tasks, reviewing and categorizing GL data for meaningful P&L analysis by vendor, including legal and acquisition related costs.
  • Assist in pulling vendor invoices for team as part of month end review

Qualifications

  • Rising senior and master’s students majoring in Accounting, open to equivalent finance and business programs
  • Available to work 20 hours a week in our Westport Home Office
  • Familiarity with MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word)
  • Team player and willing to share knowledge and learn new tasks
  • Strong communication, time management and organizational skills
  • Interest in developing personal skills in use of accounting and financial reporting systems (D365)
  • Eager to learn, with positive attitude and enthusiasm
Pay Range
$20$20 USD

PetVet Care Centers, Inc. is one of the nation’s leading operators of veterinary hospitals for companion animals. The company operates over 450 hospitals across multiple states and employs over 11,000 people including over 800 veterinarians. Since its inception, PetVet has been structured around a model that is focused on developing a partnership between the hospitals and the company and providing the highest quality medicine and service.

PetVet is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, religion, citizenship, national origin/ancestry, physical/mental disabilities, military status or any other basis prohibited by law. EOE, M/F/D/V

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