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Summer Intern - Finance/ Accounting

NextEra Energy Inc
  • juno beach, FL
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    Requisition ID: 97178

    NextEra Energy, Inc. is Americas leading energy company, delivering more electricity to homes and businesses than any other company in the nation. We are dedicated to meeting the country's growing energy demands through a diverse mix of energy sources. Our focus is on growing the economy, keeping customer bills as low as possible and supporting the communities where our projects are located. Through technology and innovation, we deliver cutting-edge solutions, serving Americans across nearly all 50 states. Are you ready to shape America's energy future? Join us today.

    Position Specific Description

    The NextEra Energy Internship Experience

    At NextEra Energy, your internship is more than just the work youll do every day. Youll connect with company leaders, expand your professional network, participate in exclusive intern events, volunteer in the community, and collaborate with fellow interns from across the business. Its an opportunity to build meaningful relationships, develop your career, and experience what its like to work at one of the worlds leading energy companies.

    Job Overview

    As a Finance and or Accounting Intern, youll gain hands-on experience supporting finance and accounting activities that drive business performance. Depending on your assignment, you may gain exposure to financial planning and analysis, business finance, accounting, financial reporting, treasury, tax, internal audit, regulatory accounting, investments, or other finance functions.

    Throughout the internship, you'll have opportunities to strengthen your technical accounting and analytical skills, learn from experienced professionals, build relationships across the organization, and better understand how accounting supports the business.

    Job Duties & Responsibilities

    • Analyze financial, accounting, and operational data to identify trends and business insights
    • Support forecasting, budgeting, financial reporting, reconciliations, and other finance and accounting activities
    • Prepare financial models, reports, analyses, and business cases.
    • Research accounting transactions, financial performance, and business processes
    • Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and cross-functional business partners
    • Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, controls, and analytical tools
    • Present project work, findings, and recommendations to team members and leadership
    • Develop financial, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills through hands-on experience
    • Perform other job-related duties as assigned

    Required Qualifications

    • Active enrollment in a bachelors or higher degree program
    • Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
    • Ability to complete a minimum 10-week internship beginning no later than June 1
    • Pursuing a degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, Analytics, or a related field

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Interest in finance, accounting, and business operations
    • Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
    • Strong communication, organization, and attention to detail
    • Demonstrated initiative, curiosity, and willingness to learn
    • Ability to collaborate effectively while taking ownership of individual responsibilities

    NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

    Employee Group: Non Exempt

    Employee Type: Intern Full-Time

    Job Category: Intern

    Organization: Florida Power & Light Company

    Relocation Provided: No

    NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

    NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.

    NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

    NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.

    Numbers & Facts

    Locationjuno beach, FL
    IndustryEnergy and Utilities
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1925
    Websitehttp://www.nexteraenergy.com/

    About Company

    NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company with consolidated revenues of approximately $17.5 billion and approximately 14,300 employees in 27 states and Canada as of year-end 2015, as well as approximately 45,000 megawatts of generating capacity, which includes megawatts associated with noncontrolling interests related to NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) as of April 2016. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Fla., NextEra Energy’s principal subsidiaries are Florida Power & Light Company, which serves more than 4.8 million customer accounts in Florida and is one of the largest rate-regulated electric utilities in the United States, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from eight commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin. A Fortune 200 company and included in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity, and has been ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune’s 2016 list of “World's Most Admired Companies.”

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Accounting Standards and Regulationsunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Budget Reportingunmatched
    • Business Analysisunmatched
    • Business Caseunmatched
    • Business Operationsunmatched
    • Business Processesunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Community Supportunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Electricityunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Analysisunmatched
    • Financial Modelingunmatched
    • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
    • Financial Reportingunmatched
    • Forecastingunmatched
    • Internal Auditunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Leading Edge Technologyunmatched
    • Microsoft Excelunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Reconciliationunmatched
    • Recruiting/Staffing Agencyunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical Accountingunmatched
    • Treasuryunmatched
    • Trend Analysisunmatched

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