About the role

We are looking for a Finance Intern to join our Finance team and support the day-to-day running of the accounts payable cycle.

Beyond A/P, you will help us review and automate finance processes and get hands-on exposure to other areas of the department, including Financial Controlling where needed.

It is a practical, learning-focused role: you will own real tasks from day one, work closely with experienced finance professionals, and see how a finance function operates end to end.

Key responsibilities

Accounts payable cycle

Receive, check and register supplier invoices in the ERP, ensuring correct coding (accounts, cost centres, VAT, departments)

Coordinate invoice approvals with budget owners across the business

Prepare payment proposals and support weekly payment runs

Maintain supplier master data and support new vendor onboarding

Reconcile supplier statements and answer supplier queries

Support A/P tasks during month-end close (accruals, open-items review, aging reports)

Payments and bank reconciliations

Prepare and upload payment batches in online banking, and check them against approved invoices before release

Record payments in the ERP and apply them to the correct supplier invoices

Perform regular bank reconciliations, matching bank movements to ERP entries

Investigate and resolve unreconciled items, bank fees and unidentified transactions

Support daily cash position updates and cash flow reporting

Process review and automation

Map current finance processes and identify manual, repetitive or error-prone steps

Propose and help implement improvements and automations (ERP workflows, Excel/Google Sheets models,



scripts or AI tools)

Help document processes and keep procedures and checklists up to date

Track the impact of changes (time saved, fewer errors, faster close)

Shadowing other areas of finance

Shadow the Financial Controlling team on month-end close, reporting, budgeting and forecasting

Gain exposure to cash management, treasury and cash flow reporting

Support analyses and reports where useful, building a broad view of how the finance function works

Other ad-hoc tasks

Support audits and data requests from internal and external stakeholders

Help with ad-hoc analyses, reconciliations and projects as business needs arise

What we're looking for

Requirements

Currently studying, or recently graduated in, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or a related field

Basic understanding of accounting principles (double entry, invoices, VAT)

Good Excel or Google Sheets skills (formulas, pivot tables, lookups)

Fluent English; Spanish is a plus

Detail-oriented, organised and comfortable handling deadlines

Curious, proactive and keen to improve how things are done

Nice to have

Experience with an ERP system (preferably NetSuite)

Interest in automation and data tools (mainly AI tools)

Previous internship or experience in a finance or accounting team

What you'll gain

Hands-on experience across the full A/P cycle in a real finance team

Exposure to Financial Controlling, reporting and cash management The chance to design and ship process improvements with visible impact

Mentoring from experienced finance professionals

** Applications must be submitted in English to be considered

📌 Finance Intern (Barcelona)
🏢 Mad Collective
📍 Barcelona