Work Experience
Recently, I had the opportunity to intern at PricewaterhouseCoopers in wealth management tax services during “busy season.” I was responsible for preparing, reviewing, printing, and processing over 1,000 detailed 1099’s, 1099NF’s, 1041’s, and 1041g’s for trust and investment management accounts. During the course of my internship, I was able to finish my accounts early relative to others. This gave me a chance to assist a variety of associates and interns on the team in achieving their goals and, ultimately, support the team in reaching its goals. Additionally, I was given the responsibility to prepare, verify, and calculate projections through Trust-CCH with prior year returns. These projections were then delivered to our team’s client, Wells Fargo. Throughout the duration of my internship, I learned not only technical skills but further developed invaluable interpersonal communication skills.
From the summer leading into my sophomore year up until that winter, I was a peer advisor at the College of Liberal Arts Advising Center. This served as a truly amazing experience in which I got a chance to help my peers in a variety of ways. My responsibilities included giving individual peer advice on effective time management, studying, and exam preparation and acting as a liaison between students and professional advisors. In assisting professional advisors, I was entrusted to lead student orientation workshops and effectively manage their schedules.
This past summer I interned at Aramark in its Audit & Control Services Department. My experience was unique in that I got a chance to be a part of both the Information Systems Audit Team and the Financial Audit Team. Upon the commencement of my internship, I attended the department’s Quarterly Staff Meeting. It was amazing hearing Aramark’s plans and strategies surrounding the integration of exclusive systems. Following this meeting, I began working with the Information Systems Audit Team. This entailed collaborating with members of the team to understand, evaluate, and document a variety of technology controls that safeguard sensitive financial information. During this process, I also reached out to control administrators if I ever had any questions or needed more information for clarification if a given test was especially complex. The team and I actually went to Burbank, California for a week in order to communicate face to face with control administrators. Having never been off the east coast, this was an experience I will not soon forget. Travelling with the team really helped strengthen our cohesiveness as a unit. Following the conclusion of my time with IS Audit, I began interning with Financial Audit. I was assigned to manage and lead in the completion of the company’s contract revenue testing with a set deadline. My manager gave me the choice to either proceed in carrying out this testing the historic way or convert the testing to an electronic format. I choose to electronically document and analyze the contracts, and it was a great success. I was incredibly honored when I was told that my template would be used for future testing. Better yet, my team and I were able to meet the deadline that had been set for us. The experience I’ve gained from interning in the Audit & Control Services Department has had overwhelmingly positive impacts on my professional development.