Finance Intern - February 2027 start

Studyportals is the biggest educational search platform globally and we are looking to expand our team! Our challenge is to bring absolute transparency and reliability to international higher education. Every month, our websites receive over three million visits from students around the world, making us the most popular study choice platform worldwide.

About the role

As our Finance Intern, you will join our Eindhoven-based finance team and gain hands-on experience across multiple areas of finance. This is a broad, dynamic role where you will support both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes, while also contributing to reporting and ongoing improvement initiatives.

You will work closely with the finance team on day-to-day operations while also helping us identify opportunities to improve processes, automate workflows, and enhance data-driven decision making. You will actively contribute to our ambition to automate finance processes and scale our operations without increasing manual workload.

Responsibilities

Core Finance

• Process purchase invoices and support approval workflows
• Support employee expense processing
• Assist in preparing supplier payments
• Help create and send customer invoices and follow up on outstanding receivables
• Support reconciliation of bank transactions and financial records

Reporting & Analysis

• Support monthly reporting and basic financial analysis
• Assist with data preparation for management reporting
• Help monitor key financial and operational KPIs

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify inefficiencies in finance processes and suggest improvements
• Support automation initiatives (e.g. tooling, workflows, AI applications)
• Assist in improving documentation and standardisation of processes

General Support

• Support the team during month-end closing activities
• Assist on ad-hoc finance projects (e.g. systems, audit preparation)

Requirements

• Currently studying Finance or Accounting
• Strong attention to detail and a structured way of working
• Proactive mindset and eagerness to learn
• Strong communication skills in English
• Comfortable working with Excel; interest in systems/automation is a plus
• Reliable, accurate, and able to handle confidential information
• Preferred start date: February 2027

Benefits

What we offer

• A unique opportunity to gain broad, hands-on finance experience
• Exposure to international finance operations
• Opportunity to work on automation and process improvement initiatives
• A fun and collaborative working environment in the heart of Eindhoven
• Flexibility to work partly remote

Why this role is interesting

Unlike a standard finance internship, this role gives you exposure to:

• Full finance flow (AP + AR + reporting)
• Process improvement and automation
• Real business impact from day one