CME Group is currently seeking a Accounting Intern Year round to join our Finance Information Systems team in Chicago. This role involves assisting with day-to-day activities and supporting various finance applications.
Principal Accountabilities:
Assist in managing Workday Accounting Modules and linked third-party systems
Coordinate Customer Service Requests with Workday, including user access requests, metadata updates, and basic troubleshooting.
Document existing workflows and identify opportunities to automate manual tasks and eliminate bottlenecks.
Assist in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new system features and patches.
Skills & Software Requirements:
Strong understanding of Google Workspace products and Excel.
Desire and drive to learn new technologies
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data discrepancies.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for finance stakeholders.
Education:
Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master's degree (Major in Finance, Accounting, or Information Systems/MIS).
Location:
Candidates must be local to Chicago and able to commute to the office on a hybrid schedule (office address is 20 S Wacker Drive)
Sponsorship Qualifications:
Please note that our company is unable to provide employment sponsorship for this position and can only consider candidates who are legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship assistance (CPT, H1B, F1, L etc.).
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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive pay package for our employee interns. The pay range typically applicable to our intern roles is $21.68--$36.10. Actual pay offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education, location of the internship, and the internship area of focus. Through our benefits program, we offer our employee interns the opportunity to participate in select offerings. This includes our comprehensive health coverage and a mental health benefit.CME Group: Where Futures are Made
CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.
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As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
