Accounts Payable Intern

About Wright & Sons Cold Storage:

We handle storage and shipping for a few dozen local businesses. Small team, one shift, and no weekend work most weeks.

The internship:

Part-time remote role, 4 to 6 hours a day. You need to be careful, consistent and good with Excel. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in.

Day to day:

• Organise scanned invoices and supporting documents in shared folders for audit
• 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
• Reconcile bank statements with the books every week
• Track accounts receivable ageing and share a weekly list of overdue invoices
• Check vendor invoices against purchase orders before payment

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• 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
• 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
• Laptop and stable internet. Some tools need a Windows machine
• Accurate and patient with repetitive data entry

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Xero

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $20.50 - $25.00 an hour

Perks:

• Company laptop
• Paid sick time
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Return offer opportunities
• Learning and development stipend

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wright & Sons Cold Storage, LLC.