Finance Intern - Managment Accounting

at  APCO Worldwide

Founded in 1984, APCO is an award-winning, independently owned global advisory and advocacy firm with more than 32 offices in major cities throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and LATAM – with a diverse global team of more than 1,250 experts.
APCO combines a global perspective with local expertise to help clients around the world manage challenges, opportunities, perceptions and reputations. APCO clients include corporations and governments; industry associations and nonprofit organizations; and six of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500. The firm is a majority women-owned business.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Fluent in English
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships internally with all levels of staff including direct team, senior leadership, client facing staff etc.
• Attention to detail with a can-do attitude.
• MS Office, including Excel.
• Detailed and organised to allow for effective management of multiple stakeholders and projects
• Comfortable operating in a continuously changing environment
• Maconomy experience desirable, but not essential

THE ROLE:

The Role is initially a 6 Month Internship with the potential to become permanent when the internship ends. The role reports to both, the Billing Manager, and the Revenue Accountant.
The Billing and Revenue Assistant is responsible for supporting them and APCO’s client-facing teams with responsibility for billing and project maintenance. You will work closely with the Billing Manager and Revenue Accountant, as well as other members within Finance and Client Managers (CMs).

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for billing and revenue recognition on all T&M projects, ensuring WIP is invoiced promptly
• Generating draft invoices for approval; liaison with CMs on invoice wording and other items.
• Expenses Billing and movements (billable / non-billable)
• Perform time & expense transfers (reallocations) where required to ensure all entries are on the relevant project code, and assist with any queries related to such entries
• Export new business hours for review and transfer to the relevant project code
• Draft invoice and projects pending daily reports to Billing Manager
• Draft Missing time monthly reports to Revenue Accountant
• Invoice management in MS Teams (to share with external accountants)
• Ad-hoc duties required by Billing Manager or Senior Revenue Accountant