Bloomberg - Multilingual Accounting Summer Internship

Employment Type: Temporary
Location: Central London - London, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive + Training
Name: Bloomberg
Posted: 14-03-2012
Code: 32165
Languages:
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Required Languages: 0

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for a business-minded and efficient Intern to be part of our Accounting team which is at the front line in dealing with high-profile customers and vendors. Our Accounting department is fast paced, challenging and there are tight deadlines to be met.

You will be the primary contact for existing clients and vendors to assist and advise them on account, invoice and billing queries. You will manage the life cycle of the clients' or vendor accounts via our internal ticketing system, ensuring that our clients understand where they are in the life cycle and what the next steps are.

You will also be directly responsible for contributing to projects with the possibility of being given your own pool of clients to manage if you perform well.

Bloomberg's global customer base also allows you to fully utilize your multilingual skills and will allow you to work in an international organisation. We are currently recruiting for candidates with fluency in English as well as two or more of the following languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Dutch. Other European languages will be considered.

Responsibilities:

Based at our London office, you will be responsible for:

- contributing to projects
- contributing to/maintaining departmental performance targets
- having sole responsibility for managing client responses, identifying important information and issues needing to be dealt with
- managing client records to ensure we are tax compliant

Qualifications:

- self-starter with great multitasking and organisational skills with a great focus on customer-service
- excellent Excel skills advantageous
- accuracy/attention to detail essential
- strong written and verbal communication skills coupled with the ability to communicate clearly)
- ability to remain calm under pressure, with the ability to inspire confidence in clients regardless of the situation
- proactive self-starter
- dedicated team player with a proactive approach
- availability to work for 10 weeks starting 25th June 2012