Position Summary
Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Intern – Compliance and Finance
Do you thrive in times of disruption? Have a passion for turning challenges and opportunities into long-term competitive advantages? As an Intern in Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory, you’ll have the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience working alongside leading professionals and directly with our clients across diverse industries while building your professional skills in a variety of project experiences. Our Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory practice helps organizations effectively navigate business risks and opportunities—from financial risks to operational and regulatory risks—to gain competitive advantage.
Work you’ll do
As an Intern, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple projects leveraging your business-related degree to help our clients more confidently make decisions to drive performance. You will help our clients embrace change, grow their business, accelerate performance, and navigate periods of crisis or controversy and emerge resilient.
Specific areas of work could include:
- Controllership: Help clients advance transparency, relevance, and the quality of information disclosed to the markets and investors so that they can meet regulatory and attestation requirements. Support clients and business unit finance leaders in solving complex financial accounting and reporting issues enabled by digital technologies.
- Identify and apply relevant specialized technical accounting standards and regulatory guidelines to complex transactions and business events
- Implement new or modified accounting standards
- Convert from one set of accepted accounting standards to another (e.g., US GAAP to IFRS)
- Address the operational/ transformational challenges that result from changes to accounting processes, technology platforms and internal/ external information needs
- Participate in engagement planning and budgeting; define the work product structure and content; manage engagement economics, engagement risk and engagement timeline
- Contribute to the proposal development process
- Corporate Compliance: Provide consulting services for the modern compliance function and those on the journey to achieving modernization. Help clients achieve and maintain resilience, transformation, and stakeholder trust while acting as counsel to their broader organizations on maximizing strategic aims within the guardrails of compliance.
- Leverage compliance knowledge and diverse advisory skillset to develop and enhance deliverables across compliance operations from risk assessments to monitoring, issue tracking and reporting
- Contribute to delivery of innovative solutions to risk management that transcend the compliance organization and deliver business value
- Develop working documents and deliverables, provide project management for client engagements, be involved in the development, assessment and/or monitoring of services and other activities as needed
- Compliance & Risk Management: Provide services to firms in the event of a regulatory incident leveraging our regulatory, forensic, data analytics, investigative and operational capabilities. Assist our clients with leveraging data as a strategic asset for their risk, regulatory and compliance programs
- Leverage cross sector expertise to respond to regulatory findings and deficiencies and assist with implementation of remediation plans
- Advise on enhanced processes, systems and controls to help prevent future incidents
- Gap assessments in connection with implementation of new regulatory requirements
- Implement data requirements and programs in support of major regulatory mandates, risk management and compliance requirements
Regardless of project type, your work will require:
- Proficiency in verbal and written communication skills essential to interacting with clients and teams
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects/assignments/responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
- Problem solving and critical thinking skills in support of both innovative and operational enhancement opportunities
- Ability to collaborate and communicate across Deloitte team members and client stakeholders
- Ability to identify, learn, understand, and implement new concepts, frameworks and emerging technologies
- Ability to manage own personal and professional development; seek opportunities for professional growth and expansion of consulting skills and experience
- A strong understanding of Windows Based systems and proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Qualifications
Required:
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in the following majors will be considered:
- Accounting or related business degree. Coursework in management information systems, business analytics or other business technology related areas is a plus
- Other majors will be considered with a concentration in accounting or a related area
- Strong academic track record with extracurricular activities (cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above)
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
- Candidates must be at least 18 years of age at the time of employment
- Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
- Our current work environment is a hybrid approach, which means:
- You should reside within a commutable distance of your assigned office with the ability to commute daily, if required
- You can expect to be co-located 30-50% with variations based on types of business/client needs
Preferred:
- Cumulative GPA of 3.2 or above
- Relevant work experience or work experience in a professional environment (e.g. internships, summer positions, school jobs)
- Demonstrated recent leadership, such as in a campus club, society, sports teams or other activity
- Demonstrated recent social impact or volunteer activity
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $39.42/hour to $40.38/hour.
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The Team
Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory helps organizations navigate a variety of risks to lead in the marketplace and disrupt through innovation. The insights of our professionals, combined with our specialized products and services, help clients learn how to embrace complexity and leverage their position of strength to accelerate performance.
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