Tax Accountant Internship, Summer

Sponsorship is not available for this role.

At GDIT, our people are our business. We pride ourselves on the work our innovators do to support and secure some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the world. We wouldn’t be successful without our ability to attract new talent to join our team.

What sets a GDIT internship experience apart from other organizations in the industry?

GDIT’s Summer Internship Program is designed with you in mind!  Our internship provides you the opportunity to be a part of a collaborative team that is helping to solve our clients’ most challenging matters. Throughout GDIT’s 10-week Summer Internship Program, you will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Work side-by-side with GDIT professionals delivering work for clients. 
• Collaborate with a team of peers to research and propose solutions to a current business challenge. 
• Participate in a mentoring circle led by an early career champion.
• Interact with GDIT leaders.
• Participate in professional development.

How You’ll Make this Internship Opportunity Your Own

Our Tax Accountant Internship is designed to make a direct impact on a broad variety of projects and help to co-create and deliver successful solutions to GDIT’s internal and external clients. As a Tax Account Intern, you’ll play a key part in driving company success by providing support to the GDIT Tax Department. You will be trusted to support tax department strategy, planning and compliance functions.

A Day in the Life

• Participates in tax forecasts including liability, cash tax and effective tax rate
• Identify/Support tax saving or risk mitigating opportunities
• Implement/Manage tax saving or risk mitigating opportunities
• Analyze and support tax ramifications of contract proposals
• Research jurisdictional tax law and maintains current knowledge of tax laws affecting the company
• Analyze and prepare journal entries including income and transactional taxes

• Learn how to leverage new tools and technologies
• Participates/Assists in business unit financial statement internal and external audit inquiries
• Identify/Support process improvements, systems enhancements, and process automation
• Various duties that enhance the productivity and procedures of the company

The Must-Haves

• Currently enrolled in an associate's, bachelor's or master's degree program economics, finance, statistics, accounting, or related discipline from a United States-based college or university
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Strong planning and organizational skills 
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, and Teams)

What You’ll Need to Deliver Your Best Every Day

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
• Experience using Excel, specifically data analysis, pivot tables, VLOOKUP’s, and charts
• Ability to build meaningful relationships with manager and members of your team in a remote environment
• Intuitiveness with an ability to identify and solve complex problems related to rapidly changing technology 
• A sense of genuine, intellectual curiosity and a nimble mindset
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, and Teams)

What you Offer as a Stand-Out Candidate

• Knowledge of tax accounting principles, interpreting financial statements, and exposure to quantitative financial analysis
• Proficiency in VBA
• Knowledge of project management and data analytics
• Analytical and quantitative skills: working with and synthesizing big data into actionable insights
• Comfortable using data software to conduct analyses and synthesize findings

Location: Hybrid schedule to the Herndon, VA office location

GDIT interns are paid and full-time (40 hours/week) for 10 consecutive weeks. Applicants should have a minimum of one semester remaining in their studies after their internship concludes. Take the first step and apply today!

Note: We receive a high volume of applications and review them on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Our goal is to follow up with you within two weeks of your application.

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