Finance Intern: Consolidation & Reporting

Temasek; Singapore; On-site; SGD 17,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, seeks a Finance Intern to support the Finance team across entity-level close, financial statements, consolidation, and process improvement.

The role involves assisting with month-end and year-end close activities, preparing supporting schedules, supporting entity-level financial statements, and performing checks to ensure balances are accurate and properly supported.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a degree in Accountancy, Accounting & Finance or a related discipline.
• Basic understanding of accounting principles and financial statements.
• Interest in financial reporting, consolidation, and audit processes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, and pivot tables.
• Interest and familiarity with AI tools and a willingness to apply them responsibly to improve productivity, automate routine tasks, summarise information, and enhance financial process efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Assist in month-end and year-end financial close activities for assigned entities.
• Support the preparation and posting of journal entries, including accruals and other close-related adjustments.
• Prepare and maintain supporting schedules for key financial statement line items.
• Assist in preparing entity-level financial statements from trial balances and underlying accounting records.
• Perform basic checks to ensure financial statement balances are consistent with supporting schedules and accounting records.
• Support and take ownership of assigned consolidation workstreams for selected financial statement captions.
• Extract, compile, and validate relevant balances from consolidation or reporting systems.
• Liaise with portfolio companies on reporting submissions and follow up on missing or incomplete information.
• Review submissions for completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
• Track submission status, outstanding issues, and resolution progress during the reporting cycle.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, portfolio companies, and auditors where required to clarify inputs and resolve discrepancies.
• Maintain proper documentation, version control, and audit trail for consolidation workings and related deliverables.
• Support the review and enhancement of existing financial close, consolidation, and reporting processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy.
• Assist in streamlining templates, trackers, and supporting schedules used during reporting cycles.
• Support the automation or simplification of recurring reporting tasks using Excel functions, pivot tables, lookups, and other available tools.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Willingness to learn

AI tools familiarity

Education

Accountancy / Accounting & Finance undergrad

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Pivot tables

VLOOKUP / Lookups

AI tools usage

Job description

Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, seeks a Finance Intern to support the Finance team across entity-level close, financial statements, consolidation, and process improvement.

The role involves assisting with month-end and year-end close activities, preparing supporting schedules, supporting entity-level financial statements, and performing checks to ensure balances are accurate and properly supported.