Accounting Extended Internship (Spring/Summer 2022 or Summer/Fall 2022)
Responsibilities
Principal’s extended internships (also known as a co-op) in the Accounting community offers an immersive professional experience that promotes experiential learning on the job. During these paid internships, interns will work full time while enhancing and applying their accounting skills and developing professionally. Once a candidate is selected for this program, they will be placed in one of the following business areas within the Accounting Community at Principal. There are opportunities within Retirement & Income Solutions, Principal Global Investors, U.S. Insurance Solutions, or Corporate and other supporting services.
Each intern opportunity will differ based on the needs of the business area. Generally, interns will be exposed to and be responsible for:
- Preparing internal or external financial reports and/or tax returns
- Participating in the financial statement close process
- Testing and documentation of internal controls for SOX compliance
- Variance and trend analysis
- Assistance in preparation of budgets and/or forecasts
- Assistance with projects
Qualifications
- Working towards or have a bachelor’s or graduate level degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Minimum 2.8 cumulative GPA.
- Minimum of 6 or more hours of accounting or finance major coursework completed by the start of the internship.
- Ability to solve problems using technology, such as Excel, query language (SQL, SAS), Power BI, etc.
- Meaningful involvement with community or school organizations and/or through work experience.
All applicants must be available to work full time (40 hours per week during core business hours) from January – August 2022 or May – December 2022 in order to be considered for this position.
Additional Information
What to expect from your internship?
We’re committed to providing you a great experience regardless of your preferred location. This past summer, we held our first ever hybrid based internship program – and had great success. Principal is committed to continuously enhancing capabilities to provide a highly collaborative hybrid work environment.
Our Internship Program offers many ways to connect, network, and collaborate. Hear from Principal's senior-most leaders through our Executive Speaker Series and collaborate with interns across the company in cross-disciplinary teams during our annual IT Intern Code Jam. To learn more specific details about our Internship Program, what to expect, etc. click here.
Location
Internship location will be either onsite in Des Moines, IA or virtually from your location selection.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.) For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers and https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants
Investment Code of Ethics
For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.
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Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.