Billing & Accounting Intern

*Candidates must be local and able to work in Omaha for at least 2 semesters while taking on a full-time course load.*

Job Objective:

This internship will give the qualified candidate an opportunity to obtain valuable experience. Duties involve collaborating with others as well as working independently and include the following:

1. Financial Operations:

• Coordinate with Finance teams to provide accounting and billing information. Communicate work procedures and information between departments and companies. Provide insight into technological improvement and data presentation.

• Respond to and resolve routine billing inquiries from internal and external customers.

• Complete direct bill, agency bill, premium, commission and other General Liability account reconciliations.

• Audit premium billing functions to ensure accuracy and completeness of information between systems and information that is communicated to agents and policyholders.

• Review/reconcile daily cash receipts and ensure proper account application process. Research, communicate and resolve routine policy transaction discrepancies.

• Prepare a variety of recurring reports using standard templates, Compile information from various sources and transfer information to a meaningful form. Analyze reports to obtain specified management information and present information to relevant stakeholders.

• Extract data/information from business systems and use standard templates to create and post various journal entries to support financial reporting operations.

2. Data Management:

• Maintain existing automated processes that compile and store financial information within the general ledger software.

• Assist the Finance team by generating requested data sets through queries and data aggregation to provide relevant and timely data to other areas of Finance.

Qualifications:

• Prefer Junior or Senior class standing

• Accounting or Finance major and maintain full-time course load during internship

• Proficiency with personal computers and software such as Excel and Word

• Excellent grammar, proofreading, and oral and written communication skills

• Punctual

• Excellent organization skills

• Confident

• Ability to meet deadlines

Hours:

Flexible; generally between 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Approximately 16-24 hours per week depending on the applicant's schedule. More hours available in Summer (up to 40 hours per week)