Accounts Intern

Private label products make up about a third of sales. Distribution centres in Nova Scotia replenish stores several times a week. Weekend availability is required.

Internship overview

Windlass Retail is hiring an Accounts Intern for Immediately. Remote accounting internship for BCom, CA, CMA and ACCA students. Daily work involves entries, reconciliations and keeping records audit-ready. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Halifax team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do

• Reconcile bank statements with the books every week.
• Help prepare the trial balance and supporting schedules for month-end close.
• Check vendor invoices against purchase orders before payment.
• Update the fixed asset register.
• Maintain vendor and customer ledgers and follow up on mismatches.
• Process expense claims after checking bills and approvals.
• Support internal and statutory audit requests from the auditors.

What we're looking for

• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Good MS Excel skills, including VLOOKUP and pivot tables.
• Accurate and patient with repetitive data entry.
• Able to keep financial data strictly confidential.
• Laptop and stable internet. Some tools need a Windows machine.

Nice to have

• Exposure to payroll accounting.

What you'll learn

• Certificate and a reference useful for articleship or entry-level accounts roles.
• You will handle at least one tax return cycle with supervision.
• Strong Excel habits for accounting work.

Program dates: Immediately, 3 months.

Intern pay: $200 - $250/month

What we offer

• 5 days a week.
• Laptop provided for the internship.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Free access to paid learning courses.

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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