Intern Finance

About LIQID

We are LIQID, one of the fastest growing fintechs in Europe.
Our purpose is to provide the creators, entrepreneurs and thinkers shaping our future with access to the same opportunities as the world’s most successful investors while balancing the demands of people, planet and profit.
We offer our clients financial peace of mind through exceptional, curated investment solutions - ranging from the world’s best private equity and venture funds to award-winning wealth management solutions. All delivered via an intuitive digital experience with outstanding personal support. With close to €2 billion in assets and growing at 100% a year, we are backed by leading investors from the digital, private equity and wealth management space, including LGT, Toscafund, HQ Trust and Project A.

About the team

Our Finance team is responsible for accounting, controlling and reporting as well as communication to our investors. The team's mission is to support our rapid growth by implementing efficient, business-oriented financial processes and providing flawless forecasts and business plans. Our Finance collaborates with all teams at LIQID as well as external stakeholders such as our shareholders (including Toscafund, LGT, HQ Trust and Project A), auditors and tax advisors. In addition to our overall Financial Statements, the Finance team also measures itself by advising on all strategic initiatives relevant to our business (e.g. new product launches, internationalization, and organizational build-up).

About the role

As an Intern (all gender) in Finance & Controlling you will be part of our two-person Finance Team, consisting of the Senior Finance & Controlling Manager and our Accountant. As such, you will learn about a wide spectrum of financial topics, supporting you to become a true finance generalist.

\_\_With your focus on details and your passion for numbers, you will support us in all daily business tasks. Whether accounts payable or accounts receivable, you will take care and thus ensure an organized and efficient accounting system at LIQID. Exciting further projects are waiting for you and your bright personality. Along the way you will be guided by our experienced team where our dutch Senior Finance & Controlling Manager - Jeroen will be your buddy.

We look forward to accompanying you in your first steps into the big wide world of finance and contributing to your learning curve going steeply upwards.
- Whether it's invoicing, preparing bank transfers or monitoring incoming and outgoing payments - together with your team you rock our daily business.
- You will support the coordination with our tax advisor.
- You can build/read/write reports - whether for our management or for external stakeholders, such as our shareholders or auditors.
- You proactively contribute your ideas, analyze new business models, think about initiatives and thus contribute to the active development of our department.
- There are more cool projects waiting for you right now: the implementation of a new forecasting/budgeting tool, the change to a new tax advisor, the optimization of our accounting software NetSuite and much more.

About you
- You are a matriculated student, at least having finished the first 2 years of your Bachelor program, ideally in a business degree program with a focus on finance, accounting and/or controlling.
- Your interest in financial topics is unstoppable and a #nicetohave is if you have already gained some first work experience, for example through first internships in finance, banking, or consulting.
- Your PowerPoint slides are impressive? Can you build pivot tables with ease? Excellent
- Numbers don't scare you. On the contrary, you really flourish here and work carefully, structured and have great attention to detail.
- You are not afraid to proactively contribute your ideas, ask questions and work independently.
- You can and like to communicate fluently in English. Communicating in German is beneficial but not required. Most importantly: you manage to communicate complex financial topics in simple words to non-finance colleagues.
- As we deal on a day-to-day basis with highly confidential information, you show the highest level of integrity and have sound judgement on what information can be shared widely.

What we offer
- \#diversity&inclusion - be yourself and get involved in our #nodiscrimination corporate culture with flat hierarchies, openness and a lot of cordiality.
- \#grownup - an innovative and award-winning company on a growth path that offers high market relevance as well as an agile and highly dynamic working environment with varied activities and plenty of room for creativity and co-designing our common path.
- \#investinyourself - mentoring, books, trainings - we support you in your personal and professional development. Learning curve? Go steeply upwards
- \#officegoals - work in our modern and well-connected office at Ku'damm, ergonomically equipped and with daily fresh r