Finance & Accounting - 2025 Intern (US)

Job Description
If you aspire to:

• Work on a fast-paced, dynamic, and intellectually challenging team
• Develop your skills and solve some of the most complex business problems in our industry
• Add value by identifying and implementing technology and process-improvement opportunities, while demonstrating an intellectual curiosity and passion for innovation
• Develop your skills and solve some of the most complex business problems in our industry

If you've got an interest in:

• Learning about financial markets and products
• Working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly rewarding environment
• Gaining exposure to best-in-class systems and processes

If you've proven you have/are:

• Seeking a degree in Accounting and pursuing CPA

• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• High energy level and a strong work ethic
• Extremely detail and process-oriented
• Intellectually curious
• Adaptive, flexible style - able to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated high level of initiative
• Impeccable integrity

Placement Opportunities Include:
Financial Reporting

• Support the Financial Reporting team in the preparation and review of quarterly and year-end financial statements
• Assist the team in the management of the external audits
• Support the financial statement publication process
• Engage with stakeholders throughout the financial statement process
• Research accounting questions under U.S. GAAP and IFRS

General Ledger

• Assist the team with the monthly close process including - journal entry preparation, account reconciliation preparation, and performance of analytics over account balances
• Perform research into various expense lines including trends, variance analysis, and allocations
• Prepare footnotes, financial statement and related audit requests
• Help the team liaise with technology teams to build and develop connections and information flow between business systems to implement process and control improvements on an ongoing basis

Corporate Accounting

• Liaise with several different functions for cash management and expense and invoice processes across the firm

• Support the accounting team on various cash receipt and disbursement related tasks
• Assist the team with the close process and various monthly journal entries

Broker-Dealer Accounting

• Assist with regulatory reporting for broker-dealer entities
• Assist with monthly closes and periodic financial reporting
• Assist with counterparty compliance monitoring and reporting
• Drive process improvements, among other projects
• Assist with overseeing the accounting books and records
• Oversee the calculation of fund and investor level NAVs and returns

In accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role is $40 to $40 per hour. Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits.
About Citadel
Citadel is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. We manage capital on behalf of many of the world's preeminent private, public and nonprofit institutions. We seek the highest and best use of investor capital in order to deliver market leading results and contribute to broader economic growth. For over 30 years, Citadel has cultivated a culture of learning and collaboration among some of the most talented and accomplished investment professionals, researchers and engineers in the world. Our colleagues are empowered to test their ideas and develop commercial solutions that accelerate their growth and drive real impact.