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This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.
As an Accounting Intern, you'll join the Accounting team within Finance and get hands-on experience across a wide range of accounting operations. You'll collaborate with teams like Tax, FP&A, Treasury, and Source-to-Pay to support day-to-day processes, month/quarter-end close, and accounting transformation projects. You'll contribute real work from balance sheet reconciliations to system implementations, gaining exposure across multiple accounting functions and international stakeholders.
What you'll do:
- Prepare assigned balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting schedules for month-end close cycles with guidance and review from Accounting team members
- Collaborate across Global GL Operations, Revenue Accounting, Digital Asset Inventory Accounting, and Capital Markets/Prime Financing Accounting, working with US and international stakeholders
- Contribute to critical accounting projects such as new system logic implementations, process enhancements, or product launches
- Support internal and external audits by preparing documentation, including non-US subsidiary statutory financial statements
- Maintain process documentation and ensure adherence to internal controls, policies, and procedures throughout all assigned workstreams
Required Skills and Experience:
- Currently pursuing a BA/BS degree in Accounting or a related field with foundational knowledge of US GAAP
- Demonstrated analytical ability applied to accounting or finance contexts, such as reconciliations, variance analysis, or financial modeling through coursework, projects, or prior experience
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and meet deadlines, including prioritizing across competing workstreams
- Familiarity with SQL, Snowflake, Looker, or similar analytics tools, or experience with digital assets and the crypto economy
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Position ID: P78074
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- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a BA or BS degree in Accounting or a related field
- Foundational knowledge of US GAAP
- Analytical ability applied to accounting or finance, including reconciliations, variance analysis, or financial modeling
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks, prioritize competing workstreams, and meet deadlines
- Familiarity with SQL, Snowflake, Looker, or similar analytics tools, or experience with digital assets and the crypto economy
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
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Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets, including trading, staking, safekeeping, spending, and fast, free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community, we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
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We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world, to help people control their own wealth, start companies, have financial privacy, and participate in the global economy. And to get us there, we focus, build and move as a team.
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