2027 Summer Corporate Intern - Accounting

Caterpillar Inc. is a global team focused on creating stronger, more sustainable communities through innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving. The Corporate Accounting Intern will gain on-the-job experience through projects involving financial accounting, cost accounting, tax accounting, financial systems, auditing, and research and development accounting, while performing budgeting, forecasting, reporting, compliance, analysis, and related accounting tasks.

What you'll do:

• 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

What they're looking for:

• 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
• Candidates must be willing to relocate if necessary for the duration of the internship, and complete daily work commute using reliable transportation
• Candidates must be willing to travel as needed
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position
• This is a 40-hour-per-week onsite work assignment, Monday through Friday, lasting 12 weeks in the summer
• This position requires working onsite five days a week
• 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

Benefits:

• 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