Government Advisory Services Intern (Fall 2024 - Hybrid - Southern California) - Eide Bailly LLP

We are looking for an intern to join our Government Advisory Consulting team! 

Internship Duration: Late Fall 2024 - November start date

Location: Southern California - Rancho Cucamonga 

Majors: Accounting, Finance, or Business 

Who We Are

Founded in 1917, Eide Bailly is one of the top 20 CPA and business advisory firms in the nation with over 40 offices across 17 states. At the core, Eide Bailly is a people-first firm - real people, passionate about living fulfilling lives both in and out of the office. We strive to foster an environment that is centered around respect, trust, support, integrity, professionalism, fun, innovation, and providing a work-life integration where our people can be their full authentic selves! As a result, we are proud to have been rated a Top 10 Accounting Firm in culture, relationships with supervisors, benefits, firm leaders, and work/life balance in the 2022 Vault survey.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• The Culture – At Eide Bailly, you’ll feel respected, trusted, and cared for. The firm truly values your personal growth and wellbeing, while empowering you to not only do your job well but to also live a meaningful life outside of work. We’re all here to help each other be the best version of ourselves!
• The Benefits – Focused on helping you stay well in all aspects of your life, some of the benefits you’ll enjoy include a generous PTO policy, CPA benefits, access to counseling services, a premium membership to the Calm app, paid community service hours, a Lifestyle Spending Accounting, and so much more!
• The Flexibility – We strive to help all employees find an integration between their work and personal life. Our leaders are there to help you determine how to leverage flexibility to meet your personal needs.
• The Fun – We want all our employees to have fun while they work and have time to connect with coworkers. Some examples of social activities include busy season happy hours, putt-putt competitions in the office, food trucks, Flannels and Pajamas, Turkey Trots, and more!
• The Exposure – You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside managers, partners, and client executives right away!
• The Variety – You’ll work on a variety of clients across various service industries providing you with the most diversified experience imaginable, helping you to determine which area(s) you may want to specialize in long-term.
• The Growth – When you start, you will be paired up with an Eide Guide AND a Career Advisor to help you acclimate to your new role as well as coach you in your career development. Any question, big or small, you’ll have someone there to help you decide how and when you want to advance your career. Not sure you want to stay in your current service area? You can apply for the EB Xchange program to gain insight into various Specialty Services. Our goal is to help get you to where you want to be!

A Typical Day in the Life

A typical day in the life of a Government Advisory Consulting Intern with Eide Bailly might include the following:

• Participate in client engagements to meet client deadlines and propose solutions to client challenges.
• Research accounting and technology solutions and create value-added deliverables.
• Reconcile balance sheet and income statement accounts with source documents.
• Prepare journal entries to close the books each month of various special district clients.
• Prepare budget to actual monthly analysis, using analytical skills to research variances and anomalies.
• Written monthly write up of budget variances to communicate with management.
• Utilize Microsoft Excel advanced concepts to analyze large amounts of accounting data.
• Learn on-the-job about the industry and apply your knowledge to meet client needs.

Who You Are

• You are an intellectually curious, solutions-oriented person, who enjoys working independently and in small groups to develop unique solutions to ambiguous client business problems.
• You enjoy learning about public education business processes and working with a wide variety of governmental agencies.
• You enjoy the challenge of having every day be a different experience.
• You are a multi-tasking master, and there has never been a deadline you could not meet.
• You hold yourself to the highest professional standards and maintain strict client confidentiality.

In addition to all of this, you are working toward a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field

Must be authorized to work in the United States now or in the future without visa sponsorship

What to Expect Next

We'll be in touch! If you look like the right fit for our position, one of our recruiters will be reaching out to schedule a phone interview with you to learn more about your career interests and goals.

Interns:

We are excited to share that intern positions across our firm are paid between $21.00-$31.00/hour and are eligible for overtime. If you are offered an intern position with Eide Bailly, your pay rate will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education and/or experience. Interns are eligible for health insurance and 401(k) Profit Sharing.

Eide Bailly LLP is proud to be an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.

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