2025 Summer Intern - Corporate Accounting

 Groupon is an experience marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career?

The Corporate Accounting team is responsible for the company’s annual and quarterly financial statement filings with the US Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”), adopting and implementing new accounting standards and performing research and analysis of accounting guidance to inform business decisions. You will play a meaningful role in the company’s financial reporting and technical accounting processes. Your work will directly impact the success of teams within Groupon, ensuring our SEC filings are completed timely and accurately, which is an important pillar of our mission. 

The 2025 Summer Internship offers hands-on experience, providing a unique opportunity to gain deep insights into Groupon's operations and the operations of our Global Finance & Accounting department for a publicly traded US tech company. As a 2025 Summer Intern on the Corporate Accounting team, you will support the team as they partner with leaders of various departments across the organization, actively contributing to SEC filings and other external reporting matters as well as technical accounting analysis and accounting policy matters. During this internship, you will also have opportunities to collaborate with other interns across the organization within the Finance, Tax, Legal and Operational Accounting teams, among others.

The 2025 Summer Internship program is scheduled to be 10 weeks from June 2, 2025 - August 8, 2025. The program will be a hybrid schedule based out of our Chicago office. Interns will be required to be in the Chicago office on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week which is consistent with our current US employee office policy. All other weekdays, interns have the flexibility to work remotely.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Assist in the preparation of quarterly SEC filings
• Engage in technical accounting analysis 
• Contribute to senior-level management presentations
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to quantify impacts of technical accounting matters, including accounting standards and/or new contracts or business initiatives
• Collaborate with other teams to improve financial reporting processes
• Perform ad hoc accounting analysis and research

We’re excited about you if you are:

• Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• Proficient in GSuite, Microsoft Excel; familiarity with Alteryx software is a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to think critically about business challenges and absorb new knowledge
• Thrive in a dynamic environment and can navigate ambiguities effectively

Compensation

• $20 hour