Tax accountant internship, summer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Interns

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office

Certifications:

None

Experience:

0 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Sponsorship is not available for this role. At GDIT, our people are our business. We pride ourselves on the work our innovators do to support and secure some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the world. We wouldn’t be successful without our ability to attract new talent to join our team.

What sets a GDIT internship experience apart from other organizations in the industry?

GDIT’s Summer Internship Program is designed with you in mind! Our internship provides you the opportunity to be a part of a collaborative team that is helping to solve our clients’ most challenging matters. Throughout GDIT’s 10-week Summer Internship Program, you will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Work side-by-side with GDIT professionals delivering work for clients.
• Collaborate with a team of peers to research and propose solutions to a current business challenge.
• Participate in a mentoring circle led by an early career champion.
• Interact with GDIT leaders.
• Participate in professional development.

How You’ll Make this Internship Opportunity Your Own

Our Tax Accountant Internship is designed to make a direct impact on a broad variety of projects and help to co-create and deliver successful solutions to GDIT’s internal and external clients. As a Tax Account Intern, you’ll play a key part in driving company success by providing support to the GDIT Tax Department. You will be trusted to support tax department strategy, planning and compliance functions.

A Day in the Life

• Participates in tax forecasts including liability, cash tax and effective tax rate
• Identify/Support tax saving or risk mitigating opportunities
• Implement/Manage tax saving or risk mitigating opportunities
• Analyze and support tax ramifications of contract proposals
• Research jurisdictional tax law and maintains current knowledge of tax laws affecting the company
• Analyze and prepare journal entries including income and transactional taxes
• Learn how to leverage new tools and technologies
• Participates/Assists in business unit financial statement internal and external audit inquiries
• Identify/Support process improvements, systems enhancements, and process automation
• Various duties that enhance the productivity and procedures of the company

The Must-Haves

• Currently enrolled in an associate's, bachelor's or master's degree program economics, finance, statistics, accounting, or related discipline from a United States-based college or university
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, and Teams)

What You’ll Need to Deliver Your Best Every Day

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
• Experience using Excel, specifically data analysis, pivot tables, VLOOKUP’s, and charts
• Ability to build meaningful relationships with manager and members of your team in a remote environment
• Intuitiveness with an ability to identify and solve complex problems related to rapidly changing technology
• A sense of genuine, intellectual curiosity and a nimble mindset
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, and Teams)

What you Offer as a Stand-Out Candidate

• Knowledge of tax accounting principles, interpreting financial statements, and exposure to quantitative financial analysis
• Proficiency in VBA
• Knowledge of project management and data analytics
• Analytical and quantitative skills: working with and synthesizing big data into actionable insights
• Comfortable using data software to conduct analyses and synthesize findings

Location:

Hybrid schedule to the Herndon, VA office location

GDIT interns are paid and full-time (40 hours/week) for 10 consecutive weeks. Applicants should have a minimum of one semester remaining in their studies after their internship concludes. Take the first step and apply today!

Note: We receive a high volume of applications and review them on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Our goal is to follow up with you within two weeks of your application.

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The likely hourly rate for this position is between $19.32 - $26.11. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA VA Herndon

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identify Verification Process: As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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