Audit and Tax Intern

Meaden & Moore

Cleveland (OH)

On-site

USD 41,000 - 44,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Meaden & Moore invites ambitious accounting students to join their tax and audit internship. The program runs January 2027 through April 2027 and is fully onsite in Wooster, Akron, or Cleveland offices.

Interns will work under senior and managerial staff, gaining hands-on experience across client engagements. Eligible candidates are juniors or seniors majoring in accounting with a 3.0+ GPA, and must be motivated, self-starting, and willing to learn new skills.

Qualifications

Junior or senior level student.
Accounting major, GPA 3.0 or better.
Proficient understanding of Microsoft Windows and Office applications, and openness to training in other Windows-based applications.
Motivation and enthusiasm; self-starters who learn quickly and apply skills for clients.

Responsibilities

Work on tax and audit engagements for clients.
Prepare individual federal, state and local tax returns using tax software.
Gain corporate audit and accounting experience on client locations.
Supervise by senior/manager staff including officer-level personnel.

Skills

Motivation and enthusiasm

Self-starter

Training in Windows apps

Education

Junior or senior level student

Accounting major, GPA 3.0 or better

Tools

Microsoft Windows & Office

Job description

About Meaden & Moore

Meaden & Moore is a leading accounting, tax, advisory, and business consulting firm serving middle-market businesses, insurance carriers, law firms, and other organizations across the United States. The firm provides a broad range of services including forensic accounting, litigation support, risk advisory, tax, assurance, and business consulting solutions.

Having recently partnered with Unity Partners, Meaden & Moore is entering an exciting new phase of growth. The company is executing a strategy focused on organic expansion, operational excellence, and strategic acquisitions, creating significant opportunities for team members to help shape the future of a rapidly growing firm. As the business continues to grow, Meaden & Moore is investing in talent, technology, and infrastructure to support its next chapter.

About Meaden & Moore

About Unity Partners

Unity Partners is a private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas that invests in founder- and family-owned business services companies across North America. The firm partners with management teams to accelerate growth through operational improvements, technology enablement, talent development, and strategic M&A.

Unlike traditional financial investors, Unity takes a collaborative approach to value creation, working closely alongside management teams to build market-leading platforms. The firm focuses on long-term partnership, operational excellence, and creating sustainable growth for employees, customers, and shareholders.

A/T Internship Availability

January 2027 - April 2027

Open to our Wooster, Akron, or Cleveland office locations.

Full-time busy season internships are available and require a minimum of 40 hours per week, with up to 50 hours a week during peak workload periods. This opportunity is fully onsite.

Opportunity

During your internship you’ll get real-world experience working with talented professionals in both tax and audit engagements as well as corporate and individual income taxes. The corporate audit and accounting experience will include work at client locations and will focus on procedures necessary to aid the firm in rendering opinions on client’s financial statements. The corporate and individual tax experience will include the preparation of individual federal, state and local tax returns using tax preparation software. Your supervisory personnel will consist of senior and managerial staff, but will likely also include officer-level personnel.

Qualifications

Junior or senior level student
Accounting major, G.P.A. 3.0 or better
Proficient understanding of Microsoft Windows and Office applications, as well as openness to training in other Windows-based applications.
Motivation and enthusiasm! Our clients have come to expect high levels of service and expertise. We seek self-starters who demonstrate an interest in learning new skills and concepts, then putting them to work for our clients.

Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Compensation

Determining actual compensation relies on many factors including individual candidate experience, qualifications, and comparable benchmarks. Base hourly rates for this role typically range between $30 - $32/hour.

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