If you’re looking for an internship to work exclusively on Sarbanes Oxley and Operational audits in an amusement park, using the same cloud audit program used by our national CPA firm, this is the one!
Our Internal Audit internship will give you critical knowledge for your future career, daily exposure and reporting to all levels of our company management, to cause your future career interviewers to want to hear much more about your work accomplishments while you were here!
To say it another way, this is NOT an internship where you’re just going to change light bulbs all summer long. Our interns actually become our staff auditors during the summer, and the interns and our corporate audit managers are the only people working on our audits! If you want to learn more about this, we’d love to consider interviewing you!
And the best part is, we’re also very interested in Sophomores or above applying too! And this is up to you, but it’s possible you can work reduced hours around school in the Fall/Winter too if available (but were just looking for the summer period right now)!
Here’s a short description of a recent satisfied intern from the past “I am also so thankful the company embraced the interns in such a welcoming way, and we never felt our work to be stereotypical busy work. I thought I would only deal with numbers, but to my surprise and pleasure, I was able to go out into the field and actually do audits myself each day! I came in everyday knowing I was making a valuable contribution to this business and felt incredibly fulfilled while doing it!”
A summer intern is needed to fill a highly visible audit staff position for the large, publicly held company, Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (www.cedarfair.com). These positions offer the chance to acquire an exceptional amount of audit, accounting, and business experience, while working in a fun and professional environment!
Responsibilities:
Audit staff interns perform all of our summer audits used by our external CPA firm, under the direction and mentorship of a Corporate Internal Audit Manager. You’ll sent the results of these audits to each park’s GM and Directors, as well as other Corporate executives!
- Facilitate walkthroughs of processes and key controls mapped to the financial statements.
- Test the design and operating effectiveness of Sarbanes-Oxley controls mapped to accounts payable, revenue, inventory, operating expenses, and payroll.
- Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of controls designed to ensure the safeguarding of assets.
- Design and perform rounding audits, which are observations of the physical environment of our properties.
- Utilize data analytics tools and techniques to distill insights from large datasets.
- Deliver audit conclusions to control owners and management. Gather root cause and remediation documentation and retain in GRC software.
- In our cloud hosted GRC software used by our Big 4 CPA firm, upload audit evidence and document conclusions of operating effectiveness testing.
- Create process flow diagrams of the processes, risks, and key controls of the labor cycle.
- Test processes and controls around certification and safety in our functional operating segments, including rides, aquatics, food and beverage, security, and workforce management.
- Assignments may include our Sarbanes Oxley audits, plus audits on controls used on procedures like Revenue, Cash Receipts, Accounting and Computer Systems, Payroll, Purchasing & Expenditures, Inventory, etc., plus other projects. After completing each audit, you’ll write a conclusion and any necessary recommendations for improvements to the controls and procedures.
Qualifications:
- No prior audit experience is necessary, as training and guidance will be provided during the internship. Candidates must be highly motivated and able to work professionally with and without supervision.
- Excellent communication skills are a plus, as you’ll interact with managers on a regular daily basis.
- Auditors should be willing to work approximately 40 hours per week over 5 days (with at least one weekend day), as daily schedules will vary in terms of the starting hour.
- Candidates should be in their sophomore year or above at this point, have a G.P.A. of 3.00 or higher, and have completed one accounting course (or are taking one) before applying for this internship.
Since you’ll be employed at one of the state’s finest amusement parks, you’ll be able to ride the amusement and water park attractions for free. If interested we do not have employee housing, so we’ve suggesting a permanent resident or housing with a relative/friend within 60 minutes of Galveston.
The same Internal Audit internships are also available at other Cedar Fair amusement parks in Sandusky, OH, Mason, OH, Charlotte, NC, Minneapolis (Shakopee), MN, Doswell, VA, Allentown, PA, Muskegon, MI, Kansas City, MO, New Braunfels, TX, Galveston, TX, Santa Clara, CA and near Toronto, Canada. If interested in those parks and already have a permanent place to live near there, please let us know.