Financial Reporting – Intern

Security Benefit (SB) seeks an Intern to work in its Finance Department in Overland Park, Kansas. SB fosters strong partnerships to provide insightful and customized retirement solutions for employers and individual investors nationwide. Through a broad advisor network and its nationally recognized money managers, SB provides mutual funds, annuities and retirement plans and programs. As an industry leader in service technology, SB affiliates also offer business processing and broker/dealer solutions tailored to the financial services marketplace.

General Accountabilities

The Intern will be assigned accounting related and analytical work to assist both financial reporting teams (GAAP and STAT).

Duties And Responsibilities

Product Accounting & Other

• Assist with quarterly product data preparation as needed
• Prepare account reconciliations
• Prepare monthly accounting entries as needed
• Assist with rollforward, tie-out and footing of all stand-alone and consolidated financial statements
• Assist with preparation of separate account audit reports
• Assist with new and other ongoing transactions / projects as needed
• General assistance to be provided throughout the financial reporting department as needed

Internal Report Preparation

• Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual management reporting to corporate parent
• Preparation of quarterly Financial statement packet for certain entities
• Assist with preparation of required statutory state filings

Qualifications

• Full-time student pursuing degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field with at least a 3.5 GPA
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Statutory reporting helpful
• Strong analytical, problem solving, organizational, and leadership skills
• Attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
• Ability to think objectively and analytically
• Proficiency with all Microsoft Office Applications
• Ability to work with various levels of management
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks

Eligibility

Students eligible for the internship will be fulltime students available to work approximately 19 hours a week, beginning immediately. Student will be expected to work concurrently with Spring semester classes with the potential to extend further. Junior or Senior status preferred.

Reliability

• Ability to manage school assignments while producing quality results required for the Intern assignment

Consider joining our progressive team in our nationally recognized company. Visit our website at http://www.securitybenefit.com/careers to apply online and submit your resume. EOE