Accounting Internship

**Description**:
As a Accounting Trainee you will be responsible for the day-to-day accounting: posting and processing journal entries to ensure all transactions are recorded correctly into the bookkeeping system; Assisting in month and quarterly close activities and performing assigned reconciliations. You like to work in the field of accounting, you have problem solving skills, you are a team player who is helping out other members and always looking for improvement into existing processes and procedures. As an Accounting Trainee you will work closely to and together with Junior, Medior and Senior Accountants.

**Main tasks**:

- Posting of bank statements, G/L and transactional journals, this includes also the data transfer from other relevant systems
- Perform weekly spot checks on P&L and balance sheet performed by shared administration services departments
- Weekly follow-up on pending issues and escalation
- Create re-charge invoices and monitoring the back office function
- Assisting in month-end account closing activities and reconciliations
- Assisting the Junior, Medior and Senior accountants, in accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year-end close processes
- Identify opportunities for improvements and opportunities for standardisation

**Qualifications/skills**:

- available for six or more months, preferred starting date Jan/Feb 2025
- enrolled in a Bsc or Msc in Finance / Accounting / Economics
- 1 to 3 years of experience in Finance & Accounting (which can include university education)
- Structured, organized and able to work under pressure
- Knowledge of Microsoft Business Central 365 is an advantage
- fluent in English. Dutch or French is a plus
- location of work: Voorschoten

**What you will learn**
- How financial departments operate - Gaining a fundamental understanding of financial activities, including the use of specialised tools and systems.
- Communication - Enhancing effective communication skills, both within the team and when collaborating with external partners.
- Problem-Solving: Acquiring experience in addressing accounting challenges and contributing to their resolution, sharpen problem-solving abilities.
- Data Analysis Skills: Developing the ability to analyse data to assess performance and contribute to process improvements.
- Working with different cultures

**What's in it for you?**:

- Internship allowance
- Monthly personal improvement plan
- Exciting on the job training
- Access to citizenM learning and development programs
- Training schedule
- citizenM experience nights for you (and friends and family)

**About citizenM**:
citizenM is an affordable luxury hotel chain for mobile citizens of the world. With a style that will knock your socks off, we offer citizens a real home from home, plus the world’s fluffiest pillows. Our typical guest is a frequent traveler who is quality and design-driven, and value-conscious. We currently have hotels in the Netherlands, France, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, USA, and Asia, with more to come soon. We are proud to put hospitality back into the hospitality industry and have received numerous awards for our groundbreaking approach. We like to do things differently. This means our hotels are not traditionaland neither are our support offices. We're open-minded, with kind hearts and global minds.