Controlling Intern (M/F/D)

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Controlling Intern (M/F/D)

at Kia Italia in Milan, Italy

Kia is, together with its sister brand Hyundai, the fifth-largest automotive company in the world. Since its foundation in 1944, Kia has been a significant player in the booming automotive industry, not only in South Korea but worldwide. People drive KIA cars in about 180 countries.

At Kia, the best and brightest employees contribute their different perspectives and knowledge to innovative and creative mobility solutions. The company fully supports its workers through policies that outline clear goals that include a free and creative working environment. We offer all-out support to realize a creative corporate culture, one in which people can lead a happy work-life balance.

We are currently looking for a Controlling Intern to join our Finance Department.

She/He will be working within the Budget & Controls Team, supporting the colleagues both for budget and monthly closure activities. The intern will cooperate to prepare the annual budget, comparing it to actual results and reporting on variance, and to drive expenses to meet the annual BP or realize savings when requested.

She/he will help colleagues on monitoring new strategic projects and agreed extra spending and support the team in the monthly expenses report refund process. In addition she/he will participate in monthly reporting activities such as FI-CO reconciliation.

Your Mission: 

• Ensure accurate analysis of monthly and quarterly budget consumption, investigating variances against the plan by analyzing RFA (request for approval) and reporting significant variances.

• Evaluate, revise and update rolling forecasts coming from other Company’s departments.

• Advice on savings, when spending budget must be reduced

• Reconcile analytical and management accounting.

• Support Budget in charge person in the assigned Departments for Workflow functionalities and maintain the ERP.

• Maintain roles and permissions in Sap for budget purposes.

• Maintain budget files to work with.

• Support the monthly reporting process.

• Support the CO-FI reconciliation.

• Monitor travel expenses monthly consumption by reporting significant variances compared to BP.

Your Talents:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in economics or equivalent

• English and Italian: fluent, spoken and written

• Accounting knowledge

• Expert in MS Office suite (Excel and PowerPoint)

• Some experience with financial reporting software desirable (SAP knowledge is a plus)

The ideal candidate is comfortable in working in cross cultural environment and s/he shows a desire to improve the status quo with a positive “can do” attitude and enthusiasm for the automotive market.

Some of the Benefits:

⏰ Flexible Hours

💻 Hybrid working (up to 2 days a week remote working)

🍕 15€ meal voucher

📚 Subscription to LinkedIn Learning

🎉 Recreational activities for employees

Location:

Kia Italia Head Office is based in the Pharo building in Milan strategically located between Portello and CityLife in a vibrant, service-rich area. Pharo is a symbol of sustainability, featuring energy and water efficiency, reduced CO2 emissions, and high-quality indoor environments, earning the prestigious LEED Platinum certification. This alignment with sustainability underscores our dedication to a greener future, which is a core value of our company and is embodied in our headquarter.

The offer is addressed to people of both genders in compliance with Legislative Decree n. 198/2006.

The interested candidates should send a detailed resume providing explicit authorisation of Personal Data Treatment (GDPR - Regulation EU 679/2016). We also recommend to mention whether a work permit/visa to live and work in the country of recruitment is required.