About this Financial Automation Intern (Fall 2026) role at Geocomply
The Role
GeoComply spends its days making sure the numbers online can be trusted: real people, real places, real transactions. Our own Accounting team holds itself to that same standard and we're looking for someone who can help extend it further using AI.
The Problem You’ll be Solving
GeoComply's external financial statements are currently prepared annually and are distinct from internal reporting processes such as the monthly flash report, which is already automated.
As the company grows and reporting requirements evolve — including more frequent and standardized external audited financial statements under US GAAP — having a scalable foundation already in place means GeoComply is prepared for that when the time comes. Building this POC now, on relatively simple requirements, means the company owns a platform it can build on and scale at the right time.
This role will support the build of a working proof-of-concept to do just that, and if all goes well, validate it in parallel with our year end manual process. Exciting -- or terrifying, depending how you look at it.
Key Responsibilities
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Work with GeoComply’s finance team to understand the inner workings of a Blackstone-backed Unicorn Tech Company.
- Work within an advanced AI-supported tech stack: using Low or no code tools such as claude code, and connecting your builds to our other systems.
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Assist with finance activities such as month-end close, bringing an automation-minded eye to where manual steps could be streamlined.
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Identify manual, repeatable workflows across Accounting where AI could help, and prototype solutions.
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Be the translator between Accounting and IT/Engineering across whatever you build, turning accounting requirements into technical specs the team can act on.
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Own User Acceptance Testing for your builds; reconcile its output against the existing process across prior closes, document and resolve discrepancies, and validate it against live 2026 data before signing off.
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Embrace Stretch Opportunities (The Fun Part!): As a GeoComply intern, expect to be pushed. You'll be given special, high-value projects outside the immediate scope of your role; a chance to explore new skills, test your limits, and adapt to new challenges across the business.
Requirements
- You should like accounting and numbers, this will not be a good fit for you otherwise.
- Current students preferred, your specific degree or background doesn’t matter as much as long as your foundational accounting and finance skills are there.
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Comfortable with financial statements. You understand what an Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow are, and why they have to reconcile.
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Genuinely interested in AI and automation. You look at a manual process and think about how to streamline and automate existing processes.
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Technical and build-minded. You’re confident in your ability to connect systems (or have the aptitude to learn how data integrates), work with data, and use version control (Git/GitHub) to build something maintainable.
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You can sit between Finance, IT, and Engineering and turn a business need into a working feature.
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Controls-first. You think in reconciliations, checks, and audit trails, and you document as you go.
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Adoption-minded. You know a platform with no owner and no cutover plan quietly dies, and you build against that.
What This Role Is (and Isn't)
This role is:
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Precise and controls-heavy. In financial reporting, "close enough" doesn't exist, and confidentiality is part of the job.
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Built around a flagship proof of concept, with a mandate that goes further. You'll build the platform and prove it produces the same answers as the trusted process, close after close, then keep finding other places across Accounting worth building the same way.
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Cross-functional. You'll act as the translator between Accounting and IT/Engineering, on the flagship and on whatever else you take on.
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A general accounting seat. You're not here just to help close the books manually; you're there to build the automations that do.
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A fast, move-and-break internship. The work rewards patience and rigour.
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A fit if checking against detailed, exacting, audit-grade work sounds draining rather than satisfying, or if you're not genuinely interested in AI and automation.
This role is not:
What You'll Gain
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Real ownership of infrastructure the Finance team will build on for years, with your work visible to Finance and executive leadership.
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Hands-on experience building auditable, controls-grade financial systems with AI, a rare and valued skill set to pick up this early in your career.
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Ability to identify the need for AI and automation across other areas, prototyping, and rolling out AI-driven automation on your own initiative, not just executing an assigned build.
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Exposure across Finance, IT, and Engineering, on the flagship build and other ad-hoc projects.
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Mentorship from GeoComply's Finance team.
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Room for Growth: We think young talent has so much to offer. Your work will have a meaningful impact on your team and the organization, and will allow you to grow your skills, network, and career.
Bonus Points
How mentorship and support work
Your manager is our Senior Accounting Manager who sits in the Vancouver office, he also be your mentor day to day. You'll also work alongside the finance and accounting teams with direct support and mentorship from a great number of supportive team mates.
On top of your team, you're part of the Early Talent cohort: structured check-ins, a group of other interns chewing on hard problems next to you, and skip-level time with senior leadership built into the program.
If your manager is away for a week and you need extra support, the scaffolding around you will be there to bridge the gap.
About GeoComply's Early Talent Program
Most companies see interns as cheap labour, a temporary workforce, or someone to hand the tasks nobody else wants. We think that's a huge missed opportunity.
GeoComply treats our Early Talent Program as a chance to hand-select and shape our future leaders: to give them the roots of the skills we want our team leads to have in five years, and our executives in fifteen. We develop our future pipeline of people as thoughtfully as we develop our products.
The stats back that up:
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GeoComply supports an average of 60 intern positions a year, globally.
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8 to 10% of our current workforce were hired on as interns.
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Every intern gets hundreds of hours of job-specific training and professional development from their managers, mentors, and the Early Talent Program.
Learn more about the program and our benefits: https://www.geocomply.com/careers/internship/
Not sure you qualify for this role? Apply anyway. At GeoComply, Passion, Hunger, and Drive (aka PhD) count for more than relevant experience or a specific skill set.
Our workplace is built on mutual respect and inclusion. We know that diversity of experience and thought drives connection, innovation, and our success, and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and identitiies
