Internal Audit SOX Intern

Position Title: Internal Audit SOX Intern

Company Summary

Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure: towers, small cells and fiber. It all works together to meet unprecedented demand-connecting people and communities and transforming the way we do business. Whenever you make a call, track a workout or stream music and videos, we're the ones providing the communications infrastructure that makes it all possible. From 5G and the internet of things to drones, autonomous vehicles and AR/VR, we enable the technologies that help people stay safe, connected and ready for the future. Crown Castle is a Fortune 500 company, publicly traded on the S&P 500, and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the US, with an enterprise value of ~$100B.

Role

Internship opportunity for an Accounting student who is capable of assisting auditors in reporting analysis, testing/auditing of business processes in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX") and documentation of results.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Crown Castle Internal Audit SOX team throughout the planning and interim testing stages of the 2023 Crown Castle SOX, as directed.
• Support the Operational Audit team as well as the Advisory team, as needed
• Document planning and testing procedures as well as the results of testing.
• Assist in the coordination of support requests with business process owners
• Support upper management through the budgeting process
• Other duties as assigned.

Expectations

• Collaborative work done in a way that balances educated decision making with measured speed of implementation.
• Effective communication between teammates and managers.
• Ability to influence conversations and work through building of relationships, thoughtful framing of issues, and building influence through excellent work.
• Agility to learn new skills and abilities as work within your group may change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to present complex information in a clear and simple format.
• A constant example of modeling Crown's Purple values.

Education/Certification

• Currently enrolled in pursuit of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited higher education institution
• Preferred field(s) of study: Accounting

Experience/Minimum Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program. Second year of school completion is preferred.
• Authorization to work in the U.S. on a full-time, regular basis without additional sponsorship

Other Skills/Abilities

• Ability to use MS Office programs, specifically Microsoft Excel and Word.
• An active listener that demonstrates an ability to understand and follow instructions.
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.

Reports to: Internal Audit Senior & Internal Audit Manager

Location/Working Conditions: This role falls into our hybrid work model working in your assigned office approximately 60% of the time (3 days per week) and where you do your best work 40% (2 days per week).

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor 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. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)