Finance and Operations Intern

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. From our humble beginnings with one boy’s wish to be a police officer, we have evolved to be one of the world’s leading children’s charities, serving children in every community in the United States and its territories. With the help of generous donors and more than 24,000 volunteers, Make-A-Wish grants more than 25 wishes each day throughout the U.S. and its territories.

Position Summary

• Finance & Operations interns provide basic assistance to the Finance & Operations department in daytoday functions related to administration, accounting, and office operations.
• Specific tasks may include accounts payable and receivable, donation processing, donor acknowledgements, creating journal entries, assisting with reconciliations, generating financial statements (e.g., data entry and data verification), and other duties as assigned.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with processing incoming donations
• Generate acknowledgement letters for donors as needed
• Offer support to the CFO in monthend, yearend and audit processes
• Support wish granting organizational procedures
• Assist with various accounts payable and receivable functions (ie. track and record incoming and outgoing payments)
• Contribute ideas to streamline processes and ensure efficiency for the department
• Offer general office support in areas such as ordering supplies, maintaining office inventory, and other operational needs

Desired Qualifications

• Must be highly attentive on observing processes, assessing financial reports, and supporting data entry
• Detailoriented
• Professional appearance, and a "gogetter" attitude.
• Must be comfortable speaking on the phone and have a personable and friendly demeanor.

Location of Opportunity

• This is an internal internship position.
• Maitland Office (1020 N. Orlando Ave, Suite 100, Maitland, FL 32751)

Intern Commitment

• Part Time internship (2 days in the office)
• Unpaid position
• $400 Gift Card offered

Join Our Team of Inspired People Transforming Lives

We are an inclusive and diverse group of people who, through a mosaic of backgrounds, thoughts and experiences are united in purposeful work. We are fueled and guided by our values - values that are represented in the inspired people we work with and the transformational work we do every day.