Accounting Intern

We share a building with a title company and a dentist. Two partners, three staff accountants and a front desk admin keep the place running. Remote work is fine outside busy season, and most people come in two or three days a week.

The internship

Part-time remote role, 4 to 6 hours a day. You need to be careful, consistent and good with Excel. We are headquartered in Waterloo and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will intern remotely with our team in Waterloo. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Responsibilities

• Track accounts receivable ageing and share a weekly list of overdue invoices.
• Check vendor invoices against purchase orders before payment.
• Organise scanned invoices and supporting documents in shared folders for audit.
• Update the fixed asset register.
• Raise sales invoices from the billing sheet and send them to clients.
• Support internal and statutory audit requests from the auditors.

Who can apply

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Clear written communication for emails to vendors and clients.
• Laptop and stable internet. Some tools need a Windows machine.
• Good MS Excel skills, including VLOOKUP and pivot tables.
• Able to keep financial data strictly confidential.
• Working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and basic journal entries.
• Accurate and patient with repetitive data entry.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $21.50 - $26.50/hr

What we offer

• Company laptop.
• Return offer opportunities.
• Learning and development stipend.

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lapointe Accounting.