Intern
Financial Controls Office
Posted on 9/23/2025

Equitable Holdings
Compensation Overview
$22/hr
New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid work environment requiring a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.
At Equitable, our power is in our people.
We’re individuals from different cultures and backgrounds. Those differences make us stronger as a team and a force for good in our communities. Here, you’ll work with dynamic individuals, build your skills, and unleash new ways of working and thinking. Are you ready to join an organization that will help unlock your potential?
Internship Description
This internship position in Financial Controls and Accounting provides hands-on experience in critical aspects of corporate finance. This internship will assist in ensuring compliance with internal controls, regulatory standards, and accounting policies to maintain financial integrity. They will help prepare and analyze financial reports, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, contributing to accurate and timely reporting. Additionally, this opportunity may consist of support reconciliation tasks, assist in audits, and participate in the review of financial data to identify discrepancies or inefficiencies. This role offers valuable exposure to financial systems, reporting frameworks, and compliance processes, fostering a deeper understanding of organizational financial management while developing essential analytical and technical skills.
Financial Controls\:
- Support the execution of key FCO program activities including process and control scoping, end-to end process and control walkthroughs, and documentation management.
- Interact with process owners across departments including Finance, IT, and Operations, as well as internal and external auditors .
- Support the team in their efforts to enhance and automate key controls across the organization
Assist in documentation management related to deficiency remediation activities.
Financial Reporting\:
- Assist in the analysis and interpretation of financial data.
- Help prepare financial statements such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
- Perform bank reconciliations and reconcile other accounts as needed along with identifying discrepancies and assist in resolving them.
- Help ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.
Internship Details
- Dates\: Nine week program starting in early June 2026
- Location\: New York, NY
- Work Environment\: Hybrid / Flexible (required to be in office a minimum of 2 days/week)
- Hourly Rate\: $22/hour
At Equitable, our power is in our people.
We’re individuals from different cultures and backgrounds. Those differences make us stronger as a team and a force for good in our communities. Here, you’ll work with dynamic individuals, build your skills, and unleash new ways of working and thinking. Are you ready to join an organization that will help unlock your potential?
Internship Description
This internship position in Financial Controls and Accounting provides hands-on experience in critical aspects of corporate finance. This internship will assist in ensuring compliance with internal controls, regulatory standards, and accounting policies to maintain financial integrity. They will help prepare and analyze financial reports, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, contributing to accurate and timely reporting. Additionally, this opportunity may consist of support reconciliation tasks, assist in audits, and participate in the review of financial data to identify discrepancies or inefficiencies. This role offers valuable exposure to financial systems, reporting frameworks, and compliance processes, fostering a deeper understanding of organizational financial management while developing essential analytical and technical skills.
Financial Controls\:
- Support the execution of key FCO program activities including process and control scoping, end-to end process and control walkthroughs, and documentation management.
- Interact with process owners across departments including Finance, IT, and Operations, as well as internal and external auditors .
- Support the team in their efforts to enhance and automate key controls across the organization
Assist in documentation management related to deficiency remediation activities.
Financial Reporting\:
- Assist in the analysis and interpretation of financial data.
- Help prepare financial statements such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
- Perform bank reconciliations and reconcile other accounts as needed along with identifying discrepancies and assist in resolving them.
- Help ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.
Internship Details
- Dates\: Nine week program starting in early June 2026
- Location\: New York, NY
- Work Environment\: Hybrid / Flexible (required to be in office a minimum of 2 days/week)
- Hourly Rate\: $22/hour
- Rising senior Class of 2027 preferred.
- Comfortable with and experience in financial/quantitative data analysis
- Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple projects, solve problems and think strategically/critically.
- Pro-active, good comfort level with working in an often-ambiguous environment, ability to quickly pivot from one to another.
- Interpersonal skills and high level of comfort/ease to interact with all levels of the organization.
- Organized with attention to detail.
- Uncompromising integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
Competencies and Skills
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail\: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high level of precision.
- Managing Multiple Priorities\: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, project, groups or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
- Adapts and learns\: Actively learns and adapts through experimentation when tackling new problems and situations, using both successes and failures to develop and learn.
ABOUT EQUITABLE
At Equitable, we’re a team committed to helping our clients secure their financial well-being so that they can pursue long and fulfilling lives.
We turn challenges into opportunities by thinking, working, and leading differently – where everyone is a leader. We encourage every employee to leverage their unique talents to become a force for good at Equitable and in their local communities.
We are continuously investing in our people by offering growth, internal mobility, comprehensive compensation and benefits to support overall well-being, flexibility, and a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
We are looking for talented, dedicated, purposeful people who want to make an impact. Join Equitable and pursue a career with purpose.
*****
Equitable is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to our employees, applicants and candidates based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disabilities, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.
NOTE\: Equitable participates in the E-Verify program.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform the essential job functions of this position, please contact Human Resources at (212) 314-2211 or email us at [email protected].
- Rising senior Class of 2027 preferred.
- Comfortable with and experience in financial/quantitative data analysis
- Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple projects, solve problems and think strategically/critically.
- Pro-active, good comfort level with working in an often-ambiguous environment, ability to quickly pivot from one to another.
- Interpersonal skills and high level of comfort/ease to interact with all levels of the organization.
- Organized with attention to detail.
- Uncompromising integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
Competencies and Skills
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail\: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high level of precision.
- Managing Multiple Priorities\: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, project, groups or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
- Adapts and learns\: Actively learns and adapts through experimentation when tackling new problems and situations, using both successes and failures to develop and learn.
ABOUT EQUITABLE
At Equitable, we’re a team committed to helping our clients secure their financial well-being so that they can pursue long and fulfilling lives.
We turn challenges into opportunities by thinking, working, and leading differently – where everyone is a leader. We encourage every employee to leverage their unique talents to become a force for good at Equitable and in their local communities.
We are continuously investing in our people by offering growth, internal mobility, comprehensive compensation and benefits to support overall well-being, flexibility, and a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
We are looking for talented, dedicated, purposeful people who want to make an impact. Join Equitable and pursue a career with purpose.
*****
Equitable is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to our employees, applicants and candidates based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disabilities, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.
NOTE\: Equitable participates in the E-Verify program.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform the essential job functions of this position, please contact Human Resources at (212) 314-2211 or email us at [email protected].

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