Accounting Intern- Summer 2024

Summary 

Stifel’s Corporate Accounting Department plays a vital role within the organization, overseeing critical financial functions and ensuring accurate and compliant financial reporting. As an intern in Stifel’s Corporate Accounting Department, you will have the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience, develop practical accounting skills, and contribute to the overall financial well-being of the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops an understanding of regulatory reporting and corporate accounting processes, such as intercompany accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, or corporate treasury.
• Gathers corporate financial data, performs checks and balances, and maintains records of assets, liabilities, and profit and loss.
• Processes paperwork, fills applications, files reports, and prepares journal entry support, basic calculations, and reconciliations.
• Document policies and procedures surrounding work performed in accordance with SEC and FINRA regulations.
• Creates and maintains electronic records using various systems according to department policy and procedure.

Qualifications

• Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated track record of achievement in academics and extracurricular activities.
• Ability to understand and operate within systems, processes, policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, financial data, concepts, and associated terminology.
• Adaptable and flexible to changes within the accounting processes, procedures and systems with the cooperation of others.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word.

Education and/or Experience

• Pursuing an undergraduate degree in Accounting or a related field with at least 1 year of college completed.
• Strong interest in Accounting and a desire to develop skills in the field.

Systems and Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.

Additional Information

Stifel’s Headquarter Internship Program will be 10 weeks in person at our downtown St. Louis location.

Program dates: May 28 to August 2, 2024

Program Highlights

• Lunch and Learns with various leaders
• On-the-job training opportunities
• Networking and leadership events
• Group outings for interns

About Stifel

Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.