Internship Accounting Intern

Ready to learn accounting in a busy retail setting? Join our team and start working with us at Humantech, a retail company focused on creating reliable customer experiences across stores and channels. This internship gives you hands-on exposure to real bookkeeping, daily store finance tasks, and the chance to see how numbers keep a retail business running.

As an intern you will help build core accounting routines, streamline simple processes, and support month-end reporting so our finance team can close faster and with confidence. This role is ideal if you like order, clear systems, and practical learning on real transactions.

Your Growth & Impact

• Build practical accounting skills by handling daily bookkeeping and reconciliations for store transactions in a real retail environment.
• Expand your understanding of retail finance by preparing simple reports and assisting with month-end close activities.
• Develop familiarity with common accounting tools and processes used in small to mid-size Malaysian retailers.
• Gain mentorship from our finance team and improve your career readiness for a junior accounting role after the internship.

Requirements

Responsibilities

Daily Accounting Tasks

• Process supplier invoices and match purchase documents to ensure accurate accounts payable records.
• Support accounts receivable by tracking customer payments and following up on simple outstanding items.

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare basic daily and weekly cash summaries to help store managers and finance staff understand short term cash flow.
• Assist with month-end schedules by pulling transactional reports and supporting journal entry preparation.
• Perform routine reconciliations of bank and petty cash balances and flag discrepancies for review.

Controls & Process Support

• Help maintain orderly filing of invoices, receipts, and supporting documents for audit readiness.
• Follow internal control checklists when handling cash or processing invoices to reduce errors.
• Suggest small process improvements based on what you learn while doing routine tasks.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Currently studying accounting, finance, or a related diploma/degree, or a fresh graduate seeking internship experience.
• No prior work experience required, though basic exposure to bookkeeping at college or via part-time roles is helpful.
• Available to commit to the internship period and able to work in a retail environment with occasional store visits.

Hard Skills & Knowledge

• Comfortable with Microsoft Excel for number entry, simple formulas, and basic pivot or filter operations.
• Familiarity with UBS accounting software but not mandatory.
• Basic understanding of retail transactions, invoices, receipts, and simple reconciliation concepts.
• Awareness of Malaysian sales tax concepts such as SST is a plus.

Soft Skills & Qualities

• Careful attention to detail and a habit of double checking numbers and documents.
• Clear written and verbal communication to ask questions and document findings.
• Willingness to learn, follow procedures, and accept feedback from supervisors.
• Reliable time management so daily tasks and month-end work are completed on schedule.

Skills

Bookkeeping, Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Excel, MYOB, QuickBooks, Xero, Reconciliation, SST basics