Finance & Accounting Intern

Legend Biotech • Franklin Township, NJ

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About The Position

Legend Biotech is seeking two Finance & Accounting Interns to join us our Accounting Team based in Somerset, NJ for our 2025 Summer Internship Program, which will run from June 9th, 2025, to August 15th, 2025.

Requirements

• In process bachelor's or master's degree of accounting, finance, or professional business degree.
• Junior year or higher for undergraduate students with all introduction coursework completed in fundamental accounting principles (ideally intermediate accounting), Finance, and/or Economics.
• Interest in becoming a CPA or FP&A professional.
• Basic skills with Microsoft 365 applications, especially excel.
• Familiarity with automation concepts and GenAI tools.
• Strong ownership of task completion.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Rotate on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to the different Finance & Accounting groups covering US Accounting, RoW (Ireland, Belgium, Cayman) Accounting, Accounts Payable, External Reporting & Technical Accounting, Internal Audit, Financial, Planning, and Analysis, Master Data Governance.
• Support month-end close of accounting books including all month-end activities like accruals, account reconciliations, processing invoices, manual journal entries.
• Conduct post-close financial analysis of actual results.
• Ingest and process third-party and intercompany invoices.
• Consolidate quarter-end financial statements and disclosures and prepare external SEC filings.
• Perform technical accounting research and analyses of business transactions and events.
• Assist in internal audits including operational audits against company policies and compliance and support of the external audit.
• Engage in forecasting, budgeting, and variances analysis of actual results against budgeted/forecast targets.
• Manage master data governance within ERP systems for Finance & Accounting.
• Leverage automation, technology, and GenAI for process efficiency and enhanced task performance.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree