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This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.
As a Business Controller Intern on the Finance team, you'll spend 12 weeks embedded with our Business Controller group, helping manage and improve Coinbase's finance product launch review program. You'll coordinate work across Finance, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to ensure launch reviews are well-scoped, risks are identified, decisions are documented, and commitments stay on track. This role sits at the intersection of finance fundamentals, cross-functional coordination, and process improvement using data, AI, and automation.
What you'll do:
- Coordinate finance product launch review workstreams across Finance and cross-functional partners, tracking owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deadlines through completion
- Support launch reviews by evaluating requirement documents, determining stakeholder impact, and confirming the validity of test transactions
- Maintain project plans, action-item trackers, launch dashboards, status updates, and process documentation to ensure clear visibility, consistent execution, and adherence to internal control frameworks
- Facilitate follow-up with stakeholders to resolve open questions, address blockers, and keep launch deliverables on track
- Identify opportunities to improve the launch review process through data, AI, automation, and standardized workflows
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Controllership, Tax, Treasury, Risk, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to address the financial implications of product releases
Required Skills and Experience:
- Currently pursuing a BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field with coursework in US GAAP or financial reporting
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, including prioritizing competing deadlines, coordinating stakeholders, tracking action items, and driving follow-through
- Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous processes and communicate progress clearly, including providing status updates, surfacing risks and blockers, and aligning stakeholders on owners and next steps
- Experience synthesizing data from multiple sources and presenting clear, structured findings to non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., LibreChat, Claude) and working knowledge of SQL or analytics platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Looker, or similar) for analysis, automation, or workflow improvement
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Position ID: P78081
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Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a BA or BS degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Coursework in US GAAP or financial reporting
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize competing deadlines, coordinate stakeholders, track action items, and drive follow-through
- Ability to structure ambiguous processes and communicate progress clearly, including risks, blockers, owners, and next steps
- Experience synthesizing data from multiple sources and presenting structured findings to non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience using AI tools such as LibreChat or Claude
- Working knowledge of SQL or analytics platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Looker, or similar
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly 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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