Internship Global Travel & Expenses

JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 10,000 - 12,000; Full time

Job summary

JDE Peet’s Utrecht is offering a Global Travel & Expense internship in the Netherlands. You will work in an international environment, analysing and auditing expenses and contributing to end-to-end process improvements within travel, meeting planning, corporate cards and expense reporting.

The ideal candidate is a Bachelor/Master student in Business Administration or Economics, fluent in English, with strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, ready to start in 2026.

Qualifications

• Student enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program seeking an internship or project.
• Bachelor/MSc in Business Administration, Business Economics or equivalent.
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and pragmatic with a drive to deliver results.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; able to start in early 2026.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and audit business expenses across countries.
• Participate in creating process improvement plans for travel and expense areas.
• Autonomously work on a project assigned during the internship.
• Support training content, user guides and documentation as needed.

Skills

Fluent in English

Enthusiastic and pro-active

Pragmatic

Driven and result-oriented

Able to start in Jan 2026

Education

Bachelor / MSc in Business Administration, Business Economics or equivalent

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Legal & Compliance Utrecht Intern Netherlands

Job Description

What To Expect?

The Global Travel & Expense team is responsible for the design, maintenance and operational execution of the global processes in the areas related to JDE Peet’s worldwide corporate travel and business expenses. This includes a variety of subprocesses such as; Travel Booking (via our travel agency and/or online), Meeting planning, Corporate cards & Payment process, Expense report process and other. The team’s core focus is to improve efficiency, drive user satisfaction and decrease cost end to end across these areas.

The team defines the company wide strategy and approach on business travel & expenses and forms action plans based on this. It closely works with external service and technology suppliers to execute these plans. The team is responsible for training content, user guides and other forms of documentation and communication in order to ensure JDE Peet’s internal employees are equipped with the tools and knowledge they need.

The team falls under the Global Transactional Finance team and are part of the Global Group Control team and operates out of the Netherlands, with stakeholders across all levels and locations in the organisation.

Your Responsibilities!

As a Global Travel & Expense intern you will be working in an international environment and support the Global Travel & Expense team. You will be in charge of analysing and auditing business expenses across countries. You will participate in creating process improvement plans in all the area’s in which the team operates. You will be requested to autonomously work on a project assigned to you. This internship is an ideal opportunity to acquire experience at a major international company and you will be exposed to different functions and levels within the organization.

Qualifications

• Student enrolled in a Bachelor or Master program at a University looking for an internship or project (graduation projects can be discussed)
• Bachelor / MSc program in Business Administration, Business Economics or equivalent
• Enthusiastic and pro-active
• Pragmatic
• Driven and result-oriented: you want to make things happen
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
• Able to start in the first months of 2026 (latest March 01, 2026)

Additional Information

For this internship at JDE Peet’s a standard compensation applies. This internship is for a 6-9 month period. It is a full time internship but 4 days can be discussed. Only students still registered at a business school /university during the whole internship period will be considered. An online assessment is part of the selection process.

Company Description

Who we are?

JDE Peet’s is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, with local roots dating back to 1753, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands, including L’OR, Peet’s, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.

What’s it like to work at JDE Peet’s?

We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple – JDE Peet's: unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea.

We bring action to our intentions, following through on what was agreed, always pushing things forward. We offer our people a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth.

At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea.