BDO’s Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.

BDO is a place for energetic self-starters who can think of creative and imaginative solutions for the challenges and opportunities facing an Assurance practice built for the 21st century.BDO Advantage Audit Data Analytics & Emerging Methods team focus exclusively on the design and delivery of tools that help us collaborate with each other and with our clients; that direct our attention on things that matter most; and that integrate with increasingly automated workflows.Our innovation portfolio is designed with people-first to support our professionals in performing effective, efficient and technology enabled work that is evaluative, insightful, and impactful.

The Commercial Assurance session will be spent working with a local office on client serving engagement teams. This segment of the internship you will gain a deep understanding of how an audit is performed through hands on client service experience. The during Advantage Audit Data Analytics & Emerging Methods session you will play a key role in designing, testing, implementing, and obtaining feedback on Audit Data Analytics & Emerging Methods solutions that help our engagement teams and clients focus on the items that matter most, while also serving as a catalyst for the firm’s audit innovation efforts. This segment will be primarily conducted remotely.

We believe in a collaborative, flexible, inclusive, curious, growth-oriented culture with accountability to each other and to our goal of modernizing the way our professionals work.We approach every business problem with blinding originality. The successful candidate is fearlessly creative, imaginative, curious, organized, and collaborative within a multi-disciplinary network of professionals at the forefront of our analytics and technology R&D efforts and is comfortable in a fast paced, high-energy environment.

Salary will be commensurate with candidate experience and qualifications.

Hourly Rate: $32

Typical responsibilities will include:

• Participates in a structured on-the-job training program and become familiar with Accounting and Assurance Principles and Standards
• Becomes familiar with BDO specific audit methodology to assist with solutions development for various stages of the audit process
• Prepares and documents work in Audit Data Analytics & Emerging Methods specific tools and templates
• Contributes ideas/opinions to the Audit Data Analytics & Emerging Methods project teams and listens/responds to other team members’ views
• Applies working knowledge of business concepts to analytical and visualization routines in Power BI
• Develops and deploys data analytics techniques, tools, and templates to improve risk assessment, as well as enhance engagement efficiency, quality, and acceptance of data analytics
• Ensures data analytics dashboards are easy to use, conforms to internal requirements, and provides value to engagement teams and clients
• Collaborates with National Assurance Methodology; Tools, Technology, Templates and Approaches; National IT; IT Innovation; and BDO Global teams as needed
• Applies knowledge of financial data systems to ensure our data model is structured appropriately for repeatable, reusable analytics routines
• Furthers BDO’s innovation efforts and personal development by devoting 15-20% of time to projects involving emerging technology, including but not limited to advanced analytics, research and development activities and other forward-looking projects and experiments
• Monitors engagement team feedback and incorporates iterative improvements into existing audit data analytics routines
• Additional responsibilities and projects as required

Our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes and value for our people, our clients and our communities. BDO is proud to be an ESOP company, reflecting a culture that puts people first. BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services for a diverse range of clients across the U.S. and in over 160 countries through our global organization.