Finance Internship at Zivver Afstudeerstage Meewerkstage

While you’re snoozing under your sheets, are you dreaming about spreadsheets? Is gaining hands-on experience with a scale-up in the red-hot cybersecurity space a dream for you? Yes? Then this could be a match made in heaven. We’re looking for an intern to join our finance department. Read on to find out more.

📩 About Zivver

Zivver is currently used internationally by more than 6,000 organizations and prevents approximately 10,000 data breaches per month. These organizations operate in highly complex and regulated sectors such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, financial services, central and local governments, and the legal sector.

In addition to the technical challenges, we are a young company, which is reflected in our culture. We are a scale-up where a start-up vibe still exists at times. This means there are plenty of challenges, but also growth opportunities and the chance to work with ambitious colleagues. Therefore, we see this role as a kick-start where you can grow into a technical role, a customer success role, or perhaps something else that you aspire to grow into!

❤️‍🔥 The Challenge

Our new eager intern will support us on our Accounts Payable & Receivable. For this, you’ll need to have a sharp eye, a structured mindset, and a desire to get down to the nitty-gritty. You take care of the input of all our financial systems and monitor the follow-up. Big responsibility? Absolutely. But if you like numbers and spreadsheets as much as our finance and business controllers, then this could be an awesome career move.

We’ll help you to get quickly up to speed with your day-to-day tasks from accounts receivable and accounts payable to managing customer requests, creating new subscriptions in our systems, and, basically, everything that comes with it!

Our company grows fast, and alongside your day-to-day tasks, you’ll have the opportunity to work on projects to expand your skill set and gain experience with our financial systems and processes. Just like our company, we want you to grow as well: our ambition is that you develop into a full-fledged finance professional with increasing responsibility over the record-to-report chain.

Hot takes

• You can start your day an hour later because you’re so accurate that you don’t have to correct your mistakes;
• This is a challenging role – but an exciting one, in which your brain is both a calculator and a sponge ready to pick up and run with our finance solutions and processes;
• Benefit from the opportunity to learn from and work closely with some of the brightest minds in finance;
• Learn how to communicate with clients, both internal and external.

What you’ll do

• Accounts Payable: route invoices through the approval system and ensure payment – leave no supplier behind;
• Accounts Receivable: bill customers if not done automatically and check if clients have questions – leave no cash behind;
• Internal expenses: ensure reimbursements are paid timely – leave no colleague behind;
• Bankbook: leave no booking behind;
• Employee questions: follow up on questions and updates – leave no update behind;
• Projects: work on Finance-related projects – leave no opportunity behind;
• Assist with the financial reporting: leave no CFO behind!;
• Depending on your school assignment we will look at different projects to participate in.

🫵 Who are we looking for?

• You’re currently doing or just finished your bachelor’s degree in business administration, business economics, or finance and control in The Netherlands;
• You have an interest in technology and want to experience what working at a fast-growing company (scale-up) is like;
• You’re straightforward, direct, and respectful with a can-do attitude;
• You’re proficient in Dutch and English (both spoken and written);
• You are eager to learn, open-minded, and not afraid to ask questions to colleagues or clients you enjoy achieving perfection with numbers;
  When things get tough, you don’t panic – you take a moment, breathe, and act.

🧐 What do we offer?

Benefits

• Working in an exciting, fast-growing, energetic environment;
• International diverse team with over 27 nationalities (and yes! we offer awesome Dutch classes too);
• HQ in Amsterdam where you’re able to work a few days a week & full home office support to make sure you’re all set;
• We offer an internship allowance.

Practicalities: 

• Full-time position (40 hours a week)
• 5 or 6 month internship
• Internship allowance of €500 per month
• You are located in the Netherlands and able to work from our Amsterdam office for 2 days a week.

If you’re still reading and excited about this role, we welcome your application, even if you think you don’t meet all the requirements. We understand that no candidate is perfect, and would love to hear your story. Keen to learn a bit more? Keep reading.

A day at Zivver

Around 9:00 AM you start your day working from home. Sometimes you’ll be at HQ, but most Zivvie’s primarily work remotely. You fix yourself a cup of coffee and you start off doing your magic in Exact, Excel, and Salesforce – your favorite pieces of software. As it’s Tuesday, you do a routine invoice check and notice something strange, so you call one of the Project Leads to understand the matter. Now that’s out of the way, you’ll finish creating the new subscriptions for the customers that joined Zivver this week.

In the afternoon, your focus is on expenses. You make sure all declarations are processed on time and send a few Slack messages to managers who haven’t processed their approval flow. You notice a colleague hasn’t used the right VAT percentage and correct the error. You also check the intranet how-to on declarations and update the process description so that mistakes are prevented from happening in the future.

After organizing your weekly tasks, you notice there’s still room for more things to do. You check in with Teije to make sure it’s okay for you to create the weekly report this time. As we encourage Zivvies to take on more responsibilities, Teije is of course fine with you taking on this task. As you’d like this report to become one of your recurring tasks, you’re fired up and focused to ensure this week’s report is the best one ever! After a final check by Teije, you send it out yourself. Finally, you join the daily end-of-day Finance call after which you close your laptop and look back on a rather productive day.

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