Finance Intern

POLITICO

Posted 3 months ago

Internship

Arlington, Virginia

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The intern will support Accounts Receivable and Billing teams by managing client collections and developing weekly status reports for leadership. Additionally, they will assist with general accounting functions, administrative tasks, and utilize AI to improve customer communication.

Qualifications

You are pursuing a degree in accounting, business, or finance and possess strong attention to detail and time management skills. You are eager to learn and thrive in a fast-paced environment, capable of working independently to support AR collection efforts and ad-hoc accounting requests.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Accounts Receivable

Billing

AI

Job Description

Job Description:

POLITICO is looking for an eager and driven intern to join our Finance team. The intern will be responsible for supporting our Accounts Receivable and Billing teams and will need to thrive in a fast-paced environment. If you are interested in pursuing a career in Finance, we would like to hear from you!

What You'll Do:

  • Support AR Collection efforts by following up via email communication with clients to ensure payments is collected for subscriptions services
  • Develop a report to track and communicate the collections status weekly to leadership
  • Review contacts for standard wording and provide feedback
  • Work with Sales team for requests and data deliverables
  • Utilize AI to improve our collections effort and communication with customers
  • Support the Accounts Receivable team with ongoing business requests
  • Support overall Accounting function with ad-hoc requests
  • Ongoing administrative office tasks

What You'll Need:

  • We're looking for a college student pursuing a degree in accounting, business or finance
  • Strong attention to detail, time management, and ability to meet deadlines
  • Willingness to learn
  • Enjoys a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to work independently

We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO. 

Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here and email us careers@politico.com. We hope to see your application soon! 

About Us. 

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital. 

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes. 

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist. 

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself. 

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization. 

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as  The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer. 

Posting date:

2026-05-05

Title:

Finance Intern

POLITICO

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow’s headlines, not reports on yesterday’s news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital. Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes. Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world’s key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world’s premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don’t even know exist. Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself. These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization. POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated Political professionals read POLITICO. Public policy professionals need POLITICO. And those who hunger to better understand Washington and government power centers around the globe go to POLITICO first.
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