Finance Intern

Intern / Student, Full or part-time · Zürich

About the role
The Finance Intern plays a key supporting role in our day-to-day financial operations, assisting with invoice processing, general accounting tasks, and employee expense management. You will work closely with the Accountant and Finance Manager. The ideal candidate is a motivated fast learner and a detail-oriented individual with a keen interest in accounting and finance, and strong computer skills.

The intern will support the finance team primarily for our Swiss entity, and also across subsidiaries, with responsibilities including:
  • Supporting the accounts payable process end-to-end: collecting and checking incoming invoices, coordinating approvals across relevant teams, verifying invoices against purchase orders and goods/services received, booking entries in the system, and maintaining vendor master data (bank details, addresses, and contacts).
  • Assisting in managing employee expense claims and corporate credit card transactions, including supporting the submission process and reviewing entries for compliance with company policies.
  • Performing weekly bank reconciliations, flagging discrepancies for review.
  • Monitoring the finance team's shared email inbox, ensuring timely responses and routing requests to the right team member where needed.
  • Handling mail processing, document filing, and providing general administrative support to the finance team, ensuring financial documents are properly archived both digitally and physically.
  • Assisting in accounts receivable tasks, including invoice preparation, tracking, follow-ups, and notifying relevant teams of payments received.
  • Working across our finance tools, primarily Odoo (ERP), Yokoy (expense management).
Your profile
  • We welcome applications from candidates at any early stage of their career — whether you are currently studying, have recently graduated, or are looking to gain practical experience before your next step, we encourage you to apply.
  • A first experience or education in finance, accounting, business, or a related field is a plus — but not a requirement
  • Strong computer skills and ability to quickly learn new software
  • Fluent in English (verbal/written) and advanced German skills
  • Reliable, well-organized, and eager to learn
What we offer
This is a broad and hands-on role that offers real exposure to the full spectrum of accounting and finance operations — a great opportunity to build a strong foundation and learn a lot in a short time. We are flexible on the level of employment and happy to discuss anything between 40% and 100% depending on your situation. The minimum duration of the internship is 6 months.
Note to agencies
Distran does not accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from a candidate. Distran will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited offer, even in a situation where Distran employs the relevant candidate. Agencies must obtain advance written approval from Distran’s Human Resources team to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully executed agreement for service and in response to a specific job opening. Distran will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place.
About us
Distran is a fast-growing, award-winning, Swiss high technology company producing an extraordinary product: a sensor that literally sees the sounds. Our unique product is used by major global players in Oil and Gas, Chemical, Power and even Space Exploration to detect gas leaks before they become dangerous to either humans or the environment. With strong growth in 35+ countries, our company continues to expand thanks to our amazing people passionate about innovation, climate change, and protecting the environment.
 
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