Assurance Intern – Financial Assurance

Job Description

Audit Intern | Brilyon Ventures

The Tone:
This is an Audit Intern internship at Brilyon Ventures, offering a significant opportunity to gain hands-on experience in critical areas like accounting, financial reporting, and data analysis. Brilyon Ventures’ Assurance practice provides a broad business perspective, serving as a vital launch pad for a successful career, whether staying with the company to partner or seeking a C-suite role elsewhere. This internship is essential as it allows individuals to develop a deep understanding of business operations and apply their accounting knowledge to help clients solve complex financial challenges, contributing to the integrity of capital markets.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Location: Hybrid model, with an expectation for external, client-serving roles to work in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year.
• Pay: $37.50–$48.08 hourly
• Mission: To provide definitive auditing services that the capital markets and clients can rely upon, by protecting the capital markets and the investing public, and helping solve complex financial challenges.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analytical Review: Identify potential audit issues or unusual relationships within financial statements by conducting detailed analytical trend analysis.
• Client Engagement: Demonstrate professionalism while working within client environments and consistently providing exceptional service.
• Regulatory Compliance: Operate effectively within a regulated environment, maintaining a primary focus on protecting the capital markets and the investing public.
• Relationship Building: Develop and maintain robust relationships with the company’s clients to ensure definitive auditing services that both the capital markets and the client can confidently rely upon.
• Insight Communication: Share the story of value-added insights discovered through comprehensive data analysis directly with the company’s clients.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-Level. Candidates must have a predicted undergraduate or graduate degree in Accounting, supported by a strong academic record.
• Experience: A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) is required. Candidates must also meet the minimal educational requirements for CPA licensure in the state where their base office is located prior to beginning full-time employment and possess a demonstrable plan for passing the CPA exam.
• Skills: Excellent English language communication skills are essential. The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary is required, as travel may be needed beyond your work location based on client and project needs. Access to reliable transportation to/from the company office and client sites is mandatory, with a driver’s license strongly recommended due to potential limited availability of ride-share and public transportation in all locations. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship, now and in the future.
• Bonus: A preference is given for candidates with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher. An interest in working with the company’s team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model is beneficial. For candidates interested in the Government & Public Sector industry, U.S. citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance or higher within the designated time frame.