Accounting Intern - Spring 2024At — MOSS ADAMS LLP (Irvine)

At Moss Adams, we champion authenticity. For us, that means fostering a culture of talented people who care—about you, about our clients, and about our communities. Here, you’ll work towards our mission of empowering others to embrace opportunity, growing as a leader along the way. Our firm’s size, middle-market clients, customized career paths, and supportive culture make this a reality. Join a values-driven firm where you’ll have fun while solving complex and interesting business challenges.

We provide the world’s most innovative companies with specialized accounting, consulting, and wealth management services to help them embrace emerging opportunity.

Interested in Assurance? As an intern, you can choose to work in one of the following practice areas:

• Assurance/Audit Interns participate as a member of the engagement team by performing audit or review procedures on client financial statements.
• Internal Audit Interns participate on a variety of engagements in auditing, consulting, and reporting over operational, compliance and financial information. This includes performing internal control and process assessments, testing internal controls, preparing process and internal control documentation, developing recommendations for improvement, and reporting project results.
• IT Compliance/Audit Interns participate in pre-audit planning for engagements, conduct interviews and review documentation of client IT and operating procedures, perform internal control and IT test work, and prepare supporting work paper documentation. 

Interested in Tax? As an intern, you can choose to work in one of the following practice areas:

• Tax Interns prepare individual, trust, estate, partnership, and corporate tax returns.  Interns may also assist clients by providing a full spectrum of tax services including planning, research, and compliance.
• State & Local Tax Interns provide tax credit consulting assistance, coordinate projects, and conduct research.
• International Tax Interns assist multinational clients and high net worth individuals by performing transactional and functional analysis, transfer pricing analysis, US domestic and foreign tax planning, sourcing of income and foreign credit planning, research on international tax consulting and compliance issues, and other projects as assigned.
• Research & Development Tax Interns participate in project planning, conduct interviews, and analyze information to identify eligible tax credits, and prepare supporting work paper documentation.
• Tangible Asset Incentives Tax Interns participate in project planning, assist in completing estimates of real and personal property, attend site visits, identify, and quantify qualifying assets utilizing construction cost estimation tools, conduct technical research, and prepare supporting work paper documentation.

Qualifications:
Please note: You must attach your resume and unofficial transcripts to your online application. 

Required Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program, Accounting preferred
• For IT Compliance/Audit positions, Information Systems degrees may also be considered
• For Tax, State & Local Tax, International Tax, and Research & Development Tax positions, Master of Tax or JD/LLM preferred
• For Tangible Asset Incentive positions, Industrial Engineering, Engineering or Construction Management may also be considered 
• If an accounting major and pursuing Assurance/Audit Staff or Tax Staff, MUST meet educational requirements to obtain CPA license upon hire in the state of employment
• Eligible candidates must have courses remaining in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program at the start of the internship. 
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis upon hire. Moss Adams will not consider candidates for this position who require sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future (e.g., H-1B status)

Preferred Skills

• Technology-related coursework highly desirable
• Excellent customer service skills; Ability to understand own and others' emotions in order to achieve desired goals
• Creative problem solving, critical thinking and research skills; Organize information and exercise well-reasoned judgment
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; Demonstrate confidence in decision making and poise in professional setting
• Work effectively both as part of a team and independently
• Highly motivated and embrace challenges as opportunities to grow 
• Outstanding organization and project management skills; Take responsibility for quality and timeliness of projects
• Quickly adapt to a changing work environment, including the use of software, systems and technology
• Prepared to travel to client locations, which may include occasional overnight stays (travel expectations vary by department and office location; talk to your local recruiter regarding specifics)
• Ability to work overtime, as needed
• Proficient with Microsoft Office

Tasks:

Tax Internship Description of Tasks:
Tax Interns prepare individual, trust, estate, partnership, and corporate tax returns.  Interns may also assist clients by providing a full spectrum of tax services including planning, research, and compliance.
State & Local Tax Interns provide tax credit consulting assistance, coordinate projects, and conduct research.
International Tax Interns assist multinational clients and high net worth individuals by performing transactional and functional analysis, transfer pricing analysis, US domestic and foreign tax planning, sourcing of income and foreign credit planning, research on international tax consulting and compliance issues, and other projects as assigned.
Research & Development Tax Interns participate in project planning, conduct interviews, and analyze information to identify eligible tax credits, and prepare supporting work paper documentation.
Tangible Asset Incentives Tax Interns participate in project planning, assist in completing estimates of real and personal property, attend site visits, identify, and quantify qualifying assets utilizing construction cost estimation tools, conduct technical research, and prepare supporting work paper documentation.

Audit Internship Description of Tasks:
Assurance/Audit Interns participate as a member of the engagement team by performing audit or review procedures on client financial statements.
Internal Audit Interns participate on a variety of engagements in auditing, consulting, and reporting over operational, compliance and financial information. This includes performing internal control and process assessments, testing internal controls, preparing process and internal control documentation, developing recommendations for improvement, and reporting project results.

IT Compliance/Audit Interns participate in pre-audit planning for engagements, conduct interviews and review documentation of client IT and operating procedures, perform internal control and IT test work, and prepare supporting work paper documentation. 

Training:

Training Provided: General employer orientation, scheduled one-on-one career advisor meetings, job shadowing, provision of work samples, innovation workshops/skills training.

Learning Outcome:

Internship Learning Goals: Networking and developing relationships with people from across the firm, developing soft and technical skills, asking good questions to be of better use to the engagement team, and communicate well with team members to gain feedback on job performance to improve for future engagements.