# Finance Intern (Accounting) at Astera Labs - Company: [Astera Labs](https://asteralabs.com) - Location: San Jose, CA - Type: Internship · Internship - Posted: 2026-09-09 - Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteraearlycareer2027/jobs/4732412005 - Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/finance-intern-accounting-54cadf29 ## Summary by newgrad.ai What you'll do: - Assist with month-end close, account reconciliations, and journal entry preparation. - Organize accounts payable data and support internal control documentation. - Analyze financial information using Excel to identify trends and report findings. - Collaborate with finance teams to complete specific project deliverables. What they're looking for: - Current bachelor’s or master’s student in accounting, finance, or related fields. - Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. - Ability to manage deadlines and maintain organized financial documentation. - Prior experience with reconciliations or financial reporting is a plus. Pay and perks: - Hourly pay ranges from $35 to $55 per hour. - Includes a $500 weekly housing and relocation stipend. ## Posting Location: San Jose, California, United States Employment type: Internship ### About the role We are looking for a Finance Intern to join the accounting team and gain hands-on experience supporting accurate, timely, and well-controlled financial operations. You will learn how accounting processes connect across the general ledger, period close, reconciliations, payables, financial reporting, and internal controls. This is a project-based opportunity for someone who is curious about how financial information is recorded, reviewed, and communicated. You will work with accounting and cross-functional partners to organize data, investigate questions, document processes, support recurring activities, and deliver a defined project outcome. ### What you’ll do - Support month-end and quarter-end close activities by preparing schedules, gathering support, tracking open items, and documenting completion. - Assist with account, balance-sheet, bank, and other reconciliations; investigate differences and escalate questions with appropriate context. - Help prepare and document journal entries, ledger activity, account analyses, and financial-reporting support materials. - Support accounts-payable and procure-to-pay activities by organizing invoice, vendor, payment, and approval information. - Collect, validate, and organize financial data from multiple sources while maintaining accuracy, completeness, and appropriate documentation. - Help prepare trial-balance, income-statement, balance-sheet, and other financial reports or analysis used by Accounting and Finance stakeholders. - Maintain process documentation, workpapers, checklists, and audit-support materials in accordance with team standards. - Support internal-control activities by organizing evidence, tracking requests, and following established review and approval procedures. - Use Excel and other business tools to analyze information, maintain trackers, identify trends, and communicate findings clearly. - Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, Finance Operations, and other teams to clarify requirements and resolve data or process questions. - Identify opportunities to improve repeatable accounting workflows, data quality, documentation, and reporting. - Own defined project deliverables with mentor support, provide progress updates, ask questions when blocked, and present project results and next steps. ### What you bring - Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting, finance, business, economics, or a related field. - Coursework or foundational knowledge in financial accounting, managerial accounting, corporate finance, or related topics. - Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with careful attention to detail and data accuracy. - Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including the ability to organize data and communicate analysis clearly. - Ability to follow a process, investigate discrepancies, maintain organized documentation, and protect business-sensitive information. - Strong written and verbal communication skills and comfort collaborating with cross-functional partners. - Organization, ownership, flexibility, and willingness to learn in a dynamic environment. - Ability to manage milestones and deadlines, follow through reliably, and stay engaged when project scope or priorities change. - A positive, coachable, learning-oriented attitude and sound judgment. ### Preferred qualifications - Experience with account reconciliations, journal entries, financial reporting, audit support, internal controls, or process documentation through coursework, projects, internships, or campus organizations. - Familiarity with enterprise resource planning or accounting systems, such as Oracle Fusion, is a plus. - Experience creating Excel analyses, reporting trackers, dashboards, or other business-facing materials. - Interest in process improvement, automation, and how technology can improve accounting accuracy and efficiency. ### Equal opportunity Astera Labs is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage anyone with relevant experience to apply. ### Internship experience and compensation This is a paid, hourly U.S. internship. The applicable hourly rate is determined as part of the offer process and specified in the offer letter, depending on education level ranges from $35/hour to $55/hour. U.S. interns currently receive a $500-per-week housing/relocation stipend for the duration of the internship. Interns participate in Early Career programming, including technical and professional-development sessions, community events, and an end-of-program project presentation. From Astera Labs's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply. --- More new-grad and intern roles: https://newgrad.ai/llms.txt