Accounting Intern Paid - Finance Team
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Role Overview
- As an Accounting Intern at Red Giant, you will work full-time from our Nairobi office and gain hands-on experience supporting daily finance operations within a fast-paced creative agency. This internship is ideal for a proactive, detail-oriented graduate who is excited to build practical finance skills in an experiential marketing environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in preparing monthly financial reports, schedules, and analyses.
- Support budgeting and forecasting for activations, events, and internal projects.
- Help manage accounts receivable and accounts payable processes (invoicing, tracking, follow-ups, supplier payments support).
- Support reconciliations (bank, vendor, customer accounts) and maintain proper documentation.
- Contribute to basic financial modeling and planning for campaigns and agency operations.
- Use data analysis tools (especially Excel/Google Sheets) to organize data, build summaries, and support reporting.
- Support compliance documentation related to Kenyan taxes (e.g., VAT, PAYE, Withholding Tax, eTIMS/ETR support where applicable).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure finance processes align with operational needs.
- Assist with ad-hoc finance tasks and presentations as required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum grade: B+ and above in academics.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (and/or Google Sheets); confidence using formulas and organizing datasets.
- Knowledge of ERP systems is a must.
- Basic understanding of Kenyan tax concepts (VAT, PAYE, WHT) is an added advantage.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks independently and as part of a team.
- Prior internship/attachment experience or finance-related academic projects is a plus.
What We Offer
- A paid full-time internship in a fast-paced and exciting agency environment.
- Practical exposure to finance operations in the media, events, and experiential marketing industry.
- Hands-on involvement in large-scale campaigns and activations.
- Growth through mentorship, learning opportunities, and professional development.
- A supportive and collaborative work culture.