Düsseldorf: Working Student Corporate Accounting (f/m/d)

Responsibilities / Tasks

As a Working Student in Corporate Accounting (f/m/d) you will play an active role in shaping projects and processes within the corporate accounting department of a DAX-listed company.

Reporting directly to and working closely with the Head of Corporate Accounting, you’ll gain hands-on experience in strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations of the Corporate Accounting function.

Your key responsibilities (indicative, as the exact role will also be shaped based on your individual strengths):

1. Support Special Projects

• Assist in project planning and structuring: Create templates for project plans and help track milestones and timelines of the important projects in the Corporate Accounting department

• Prepare status reports: Summarize progress for the different sub-department Heads and the Head of Corporate Accounting and other stakeholders.

• Coordinate project meetings: Schedule appointments, prepare agendas, and document meeting minutes.

2. Drive Process Optimization

• Understand and document processes in a structured and standardized way.

• Identify automation opportunities: Analyze repetitive tasks and propose digital solutions in collaboration with the department's Innovation Task Force.

• Develop templates for reports, presentations, and project documentation.

3. Manage Data and Information

• Build and maintain a central project repository

• Support KPI monitoring: Assist in defining, collecting, and analyzing key metrics.

4. Provide Operational Relief

• Act as a communication interface between departments, other business units, and external stakeholders (e.g., auditors).

• Provide hands-on help in the different sub-departments in times of workload peaks.

• Help with administrative tasks: Organize meetings and follow up on action items.

Your Profile / Qualifications

• Analytical and structured Business/Finance student with a hands‑on mindset, eager to contribute to Corporate Accounting in a DAX‑listed environment.

• Comfortable preparing concise status updates for senior stakeholders and collaborating across departments.

Your qualifications:

• Accounting foundation: Solid knowledge of financial accounting and IFRS basics; initial exposure to consolidation topics is a plus.

• Project support & PMO: Able to structure project plans, track milestones/timelines, prepare status reports for sub‑department leads and the Head of Corporate Accounting, document and follow up on meeting minutes.

• Process excellence: Open for change and eager to continuously improve processes; proactively identifies automation opportunities and collaborates with innovation stakeholders.

• Data & KPI skills: Understanding of how to build and maintain basic databases (Excel/Access); supports KPI definition, data collection, and analysis to drive insight‑based steering.

• Tools & automation: Advanced Excel (incl. pivots, formulas; VBA and PowerQuery basics desirable), PowerPoint/Word; familiarity with Power BI for reporting/monitoring; experience with SharePoint for repository management desirable.

• Communication & collaboration: Clear, concise writing of summaries, minutes, and follow‑ups; confident stakeholder interface across functions and departments; dependable support during workload peaks.

• Languages: German (fluent), English (advanced)

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Summary

• Location: Düsseldorf
• Type: Full time