Moore Colson

Company Overview: Moore Colson is a leading CPA and consulting firm in Atlanta with over 40 years of experience. Known for its collaborative, client-focused approach, Moore Colson offers a wide range of services to help businesses grow and achieve their goals.

Moore Colson has an exciting internship opportunity for dynamic, motivated, and self-driven students to join our Risk Advisory team in Atlanta from May- August 2027.

This is an excellent chance to gain hands-on experience in Internal auditing and public accounting, preparing you for a successful career in the field. The successful candidates will work closely with our experienced audit professionals and get exposure to various aspects of audit practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Risk Advisory partners, directors and managers, providing SOX, internal audit, internal control services to our public and private company clients, and examinations of controls at service organizations (SOC);
• Develop in-depth knowledge of clients’ businesses, processes and systems by having direct client interaction while working on multiple aspects of an engagement;
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with the client;
• Assist with strengthening existing client relationships and develop new business opportunities by participating in sales meetings and working on proposals;
• Meet budget and realization goals;
• Identify problem areas and client issues and propose solutions to managers;
• Identify technical skills needed for improvement and improve through CPE, personal commitment, and on-the-job training.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, and/or other relevant Information Systems or Information Technology degree preferred
• 0-2 years of experience with risk advisory, internal and external audit, and internal controls with previous Sarbanes-Oxley experience in a professional services environment or internship
• Superior Excel skills
• Information Technology General Controls knowledge or experience is considered a plus
• Experience with a consulting or professional services organization preferred
• Working towards CPA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, or CITP license is highly preferred
• Consultative approach with a focus on providing superior client service
• Ability & willingness to travel as needed (Generally less than 15%)
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Self-directed, autonomous, motivated and ambitious
• Exceptional and proactive communicator (verbal & written)

We are here to help you grow and succeed. We will work with you to accelerate your learning and sharpen your accounting and leadership skills. We’ll give you important responsibilities and expect that you will work collaboratively and effectively to achieve great results.

Moore Colson is ranked as one of America’s Top 15 Accounting Firms by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. We have been named an Atlanta-Journal Constitution Top Workplace since 2011 and a Top Workplace USA starting in 2023. Inside Public Accounting has also named Moore Colson one of America’s Top 110 Largest Accounting Firms, a Fastest-Growing Firm and a Best of the Best Top 50 Firm. Most importantly, our clients like us, trust us and want to do business with us. We are looking for people with the same enthusiasm, passion and respect for hard work that brought us to where we are today.

If you are an accounting major who is interested in a public accounting career in the Atlanta metropolitan area and want to work with one of Atlanta’s consistently ranked Top Workplaces (AJC), we want to hear from you!