AI Finance Transformation Intern — Onsite Amsterdam

Cortena; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct exposure to founding-teamDec

Hands-on AI workflows with real client

Flexible hours

Based in Amsterdam – on-site

Job summary

Cortena is seeking a proactive onboarding specialist to implement our AI-driven finance platform for SME clients in Europe. You will configure agents, set up financial guidelines, and ensure smooth live deployments with real client data.

Based in Amsterdam with on-site work, you will own end-to-end onboarding, collaborate with product and engineering, and help scale our onboarding processes as Cortena grows.

Qualifications

• You use AI tools every day and understand their limits as well as their strengths.
• Solid intuition for bookkeeping and SME finance: invoices, GL accounts, cost allocation, creditors, debtors, and how posting history connects to masters.
• Structured under pressure. Comfortable with large messy datasets, incomplete information, and making the right call anyway.
• Sharp communicator. You say what is wrong, why it matters, and what to do about it. Briefly.
• Highly organized. You run multiple client workstreams without dropping threads, track what matters, and follow through every time.
• Ownership mindset. You notice when something is off and don't wait for someone to tell you to fix it.

Responsibilities

• Deploy AI agents for real finance teams by configuring agents, defining business rules, and translating client operations into autonomous workflows.
• Build clean, structured guidelines for chart of accounts, creditor logic, cost centers, and VAT to improve AI accuracy.
• Own client onboarding end-to-end, gathering data, handling messy exports, and getting clients live without friction.
• Maintain high quality by reviewing AI-processed invoices against guidelines and identifying misclassifications.
• Contribute to scalable onboarding processes and internal tooling to streamline future client go-lives.
• Serve as the primary contact for onboarding questions and translate client feedback into product/engineering insights.

Skills

AI tools

Bookkeeping

Structured under pressure

Clear communicator

Highly organized

Ownership mindset

Tools

DATEV

Exact Online

Twinfield

Job description

Cortena is seeking a proactive onboarding specialist to implement our AI-driven finance platform for SME clients in Europe. You will configure agents, set up financial guidelines, and ensure smooth live deployments with real client data.

Based in Amsterdam with on-site work, you will own end-to-end onboarding, collaborate with product and engineering, and help scale our onboarding processes as Cortena grows.