Finance Intern

  Company Overview Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.    Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development. Position Summary Arcesium seeks an exceptional Tax Intern to join our global Tax function. This role involves supporting the team in building a structured, audit-ready view of tax deliverables, direct tax, indirect tax, and notices/assessments, across countries, while keeping SOPs current and helping formalize the preparer-reviewer control framework. This internship provides an excellent learning opportunity by contributing to real projects and gaining valuable experience in tax operations, process documentation, and using AI tools (Claude) to accelerate tracker-building, SOP drafting, and data organization work. Responsibilities Global Deliverables Tracking Maintain the master global tax deliverables tracker (all filing types, by country) Build and maintain a Direct Tax Tracker: corporate tax filings, advance tax, WHT compliance, provision-support schedules, TP documentation status — by country/entity, with due dates and status Build and maintain an Indirect Tax Tracker: GST/VAT/service tax filings by country/entity, filing frequency, input credit reconciliation status Build and maintain a Tax Notice / Assessment Log: date received, authority, issue summary, response due date, status, owner — for ad-hoc notices and assessments separate from recurring filings SOP & Process Support Review existing SOPs for gaps/outdated content; flag for SME input Draft/update SOPs using a standardized template Support the preparer-reviewer sign-off mechanism — logging preparer, reviewer, and sign-off dates before filing AI-Enabled Tracker & Documentation Building Use Claude to draft first-cut tracker structures (columns, categorization logic, status taxonomies) from source lists like country filing calendars or existing spreadsheets Use Claude to convert unstructured inputs (emails, notice PDFs, old SOP docs) into structured tracker rows or SOP drafts, which the intern then reviews and validates with the tax team Use Claude to build lightweight dashboards/summary views (e.g., pivot logic, status roll-ups) on top of the trackers Qualifications Pursuing/recently completed a degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or Taxation Basic understanding of corporate tax and indirect tax compliance concepts Good written communication for SOP and tracker documentation Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, basic dashboarding) Comfort using AI tools (Claude/ChatGPT) for drafting and structuring work — will be trained on internal usage norms Detail-oriented, organized, comfortable with structured/repetitive work The expected monthly base salary for this position is $5,500. The applicable annual base salary paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors including without limitation the nature and extent of prior experience and educational background. Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked here .    #LI-CM1 #LI-Remote       Recruiting Security Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at careers@arcesium.com (US/UK),   careers-india@arcesium.com (India) or careers-europe@arcesium.com (Portugal/Sweden) .  Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.