Accounting Intern
Badger Meter

Job Info

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Why Badger Meter?
Are you looking to join a dynamic team where you have the autonomy and challenge that lets you learn and grow your career? Are you energized when you know that your contributions matter and make a difference in business success? If yes, then Badger Meter may be a great place for you!
For more than 115 years, Badger Meter has provided strong, stable financial growth, in turn providing employees with the opportunity to build long, successful careers. As a leading manufacturer of flow measurement technology, Badger Meter offers many opportunities to measure what matters in protecting the world's water and other precious resources. Our company is large enough to continually drive market innovation, all while we maintain a collaborative and flexible working atmosphere.
What You Will Contribute:

This position is responsible for supporting the Accounting department, providing assistance and perform varying tasks for all projects within the functional area. This position is supervised directly by the General Accounting Manager who will provide direct guidance to learn the accounting process through hands on training in various job tasks and projects and assist with collecting, documenting and assessing data obtained through reports, queries or programs used by the department.

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  Learn LX system as it relates to accounting, prepare and post journal entries i.e. actual, budget and forecast. Update various general ledger account analysis using the ODBC query or spreadsheet server tools.
• Compile, balance and distribute the monthly financial statements using the spreadsheet server tool. Prepare statements for records retention storage and online file storage on the network.
• Work with the accountant to audit fixed assets for the Milwaukee and Racine locations. Use the fixed asset report to go to the facility to find the asset and verify tags on the equipment.
• Review the quarterly Marsh project listing and contact project managers for updates regarding expected close dates or authorization to close projects. Review all older inactive projects to determine whether they can be closed and participate in the purge of active files to the history file.
• Review consolidating work papers from the previous year end to ensure all support is included and create a document listing for the 10K and 10Q support.
• Learn the chart of accounts to understand how the accounts are laid out in groupings i.e. assets, liabilities, income statement. This will assist in the review of the audit and consolidating work papers. Review the audit work papers from the previous year end to ensure all support is included and account analysis balances match the general ledger trial balance.
• Assist the Cost Accounting group with the following:
  
• Monthly review of the purchase price variance with the buyers.
• Conduct monthly import/export audits.
• Prepare and issue cycle count reporting.
• Participate in the 20XX budget prep work - review of fixed assets by work center for manufacturing and in the LX system.
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  Additional projects, tasks, and/or assignments as assigned.
  

Qualifications:

• Currently pursing Bachelor's degree in accounting (Junior Year Preferred)
• Intermediate computer/technical skills in Microsoft products

Equal opportunity employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the "EEO is the Law" poster supplement at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm

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