Summer 2025: Finance

Summer 2025: – Finance

Highlights of the job

At EPCOR, we are deeply committed to our community and believe in fostering the growth of future leaders. We are looking for students who want to develop their careers in an environment where their work truly makes a difference and has a lasting impact.

We are hiring a Finance Summer Student for a full-time paid internship located at Glendale, AZ.

In this role, you will be maintaining accurate capital project data, supporting depreciation and amortization processes, ensuring compliance with financial standards, and developing reports. It requires collaboration with teams, reviewing assets, and improving processes while demonstrating accountability, innovation, and efficiency.

What you’d be responsible for:

• Assistance in the maintenance of the capital project status report.  This includes: 
  • Liaising with Engineering, Operations and Developer Services teams to review projects in proposed status and obtaining timelines for projects to request funding.  
  • Updating project status to approved once funding approved.  
  • Liaising with Capital Finance to ensure capitalization is completed for projects in substantially completed status.
  • Working with Engineering, Operations and Developer Services to identify projects in substantially completed status that can be moved to closed status. 
• Assistance in updating project templates for changes in key members and categorization. 
• Provide assistance to the rates group for any capital project analysis and reporting, including assistance in obtaining copies of invoices and purchase receipts.  
• Assistance with reviewing data held in the PowerBI Capital Governance dashboard against source records to ensure accuracy   
  • Assistance in reviewing data held in the assets subledger to ensure accuracy, including: 
  • Checking sample assets to confirm depreciation calculations are accurate. 
  • Liaising with Engineering, Operations and Developer Services to review fully depreciated assets to determine if they are still in use. 
  • Develop and execute process to ensure assets that are no longer used and useful are removed from the ledgers on a timely basis.  
• Develop process and verify accuracy of GAAP (and IFRS) depreciation and amortization rates in OFA. For GAAP rates ensure developed process maps and compares to most recent Rate Decision, advising where updates required. Support input of required updates to rates. 
• Assistance to develop GAAP reports in Adaptive Insights and PowerBI. 
• Demonstrate a high-performance, high-discipline, safe, accountable, focused, innovative, and achievement-oriented manner of working. 

In return, we’ll provide:

• A cohort-based opportunity to network with professionals in the water industry as well as your fellow interns
• Site tours to gain firsthand experience of our operations and projects
• Resume building and interview practice sessions to help you prepare for your future career
• Access to exclusive workshops and training sessions led by industry experts
• Opportunities to participate in community outreach and sustainability initiatives
• A supportive and inclusive work environment where your contributions are valued
• Fun team-building activities and social events to foster connections and camaraderie

What’s required to be successful:

• Currently enrolled in a post-secondary institution, ideally in a Finance, Accounting, or Economics related program
• Ability to work Monday-Friday, 8 hours per day starting in May 2025
• A high school diploma or GED is required
• Basic knowledge of financial analysis, regulatory environment, cost recovery mechanisms, capital planning, strategic planning, and risk management