Accounting Intern - Platform Finance

The Programme

Shadowing, mentoring, and training opportunities with our experienced team of finance professionals.  
 
Develop your workplace skills and experience and help build the foundations of your future career.  
 
This internship will strengthen your attention to detail and stakeholder management as well as your knowledge of the Finance Shared Services industry.  
 
He/She is responsible and supports all financial aspects and is driving quality and execution within business unit and ensures SLA & Business KPIs are met.

What You Will Do

• Shadowing members of the Platform Finance department as they perform their duties. 
• Assisting for the functions of Accounts Payable – AP invoices booking, pull AP report for reviewing, check AP Balances, follow up AP invoices status, request SOA and perform reconciliation. 
• Prepare and upload monthly standing journals and other adjustments journals. 
• Complete the monthly closing activities in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner. 
• Prepare partial monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations and Profit & Loss Schedules. 
• Perform any ad-hoc tasks and responsibilities which the superior may assign from time to time.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Recent graduate or actively working towards a Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance or anything equivalent.  
• Satisfactory completion of introductory accounting courses and a basic understanding of accounting and financial principles. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• High level of efficiency, accuracy, and responsibility. 
• Computer literate, preferably with Excel spreadsheet knowledge.

Internship duration at least 6 months or longer.

About Us: 
 
CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2019 revenues of $23.9 billion and more than 100,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices).  
 
CBRE has been included on the Fortune 500 since 2008, ranking #128 in 2020.  
 
It also has been voted the industry’s top brand by the Lipsey Company for 19 consecutive years and has been named one of Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” for eight years in a row, including being ranked number one in the real estate sector in 2020, for the second consecutive year. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CBRE.”  
 
CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.