Financial and Sustainability Reporting Intern (Hybrid)

About the Role:

Sezzle’s Finance department, located in Minneapolis, MN, is offering a paid internship that will provide a student with relevant skills and experience in a variety of financial and sustainability reporting functions. The intern will assist with the preparation, review, and design of internal and external reports such as SEC filings, Board of Director presentations, and sustainability reports. The ideal candidate will have completed at least foundational financial and managerial accounting courses and be interested in gaining exposure to financial and sustainability reporting. The candidate will also be task-oriented, able to prioritize projects based on team needs, and able to work independently while maintaining a direct line to their manager, as most workdays will be remote, with a requirement to come into the office in Minneapolis one day per week with the Finance team.

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Assist with the preparation of our SEC filings, including our quarterly and annual reports
• Help prepare and design monthly internal financial reports to be delivered to our Board of Directors
• Learn about Sezzle’s business, with a focus on financial and sustainability processes
• Work closely with the Financial Reporting Manager to develop our year-end sustainability report
• Work with other departments to gather documentation and gain exposure to our internal controls over sustainability reporting for our B Corporation audit
• Support the overall finance and reporting functions with ad-hoc projects, as needed

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be actively enrolled in an undergraduate program at an accredited local university, with a major in a business-related field. Junior or senior preferred, with a current GPA of 3.0 or above
• Completed or enrolled in Introduction to Financial Reporting and Strategic Management Accounting (or equivalent foundational financial and managerial accounting courses)
• Must be able to work no less than 25 hours per week during the summer and 15 hours per week during the academic school year
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Must be able to commute to office in Minneapolis, MN once a week.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• An understanding of U.S. GAAP and financial statements
• An interest in sustainability accounting and reporting
• Ability to come into the office one day per week with the rest of the Finance team.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to work independently and remotely
• A high level of integrity, accuracy, dependability, enthusiasm, and confidentiality

About You:

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• Ownership. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive wages
• Remote first work with the option of a collaborative office space in Minneapolis
• The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest-growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

The compensation range for the role is $18-$20/hr. Our ranges are very broad to accommodate all types of candidates and encourage growth. Specific compensation offered to a candidate may be dependent on factors such as education, experience, qualifications, and alignment with market data. Exceptional candidates may receive salaries outside of the posted ranges.

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