Accounting & Tax Internships: Knoxville - Summer 2025

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Accounting & Tax Internships: Knoxville Summer 2025

Application Deadline: Friday, February 28th

Your New Role 

We have multiple Accounting, Tax and Finance internship opportunities available in Knoxville. By applying to this posting, you will be considered for internship opportunities within this area.

This could include, but is not limited to:

• Revenue Assurance Intern

• US Networks Distribution Revenue Accounting Intern

• Corporate Controllership Intern

• US Federal Tax Intern

Your Role Accountabilities

Duties could include:

• Working closely with the brands to ensure complete and accurate costs and associated amortization curves are applied.

• Recording journal entries and preparing account reconciliations so they can gain insight into the actual workings of a global accounting department.

• Assist on ad hoc projects in our ever-changing organization.

• Assist with creating projects and assets in our ERP system as well as various analyses related to amortization profiles as needed.

• Responsible for processing remittances for affiliate customers on a monthly basis to account for AR, revenue, and cash

• Assist with tax research on a variety of issues pertaining to state taxes and production credits.

• Assist with compliance of production tax credits and prepare supporting documentation.

• Provide support on financial reporting, report running, and updating and maintaining tax models in MS Excel

• Assists the department with research and development tax credit study 

• Exposure to reporting and withholding function

• Assist with billing reconciliations, data validation and explore various systems such as the Commerce Billing tool called Studios, Vertex tax engine and SAP

• Assist with partnership distributions

• Assist with SEC tax reporting 

• Assist with various tax filings

• Assist with internal and external communications  

• Assist in preparing presentation materials (e.g., PowerPoint slides), project management (coordination with various teams), and ad hoc tax research.

• Support completion of annual transfer pricing reports; document policies and procedures related to operational transfer pricing; analysis and review of Excel-based calculations.

• Execute Agile audits

• Learn leading-edge audit techniques

• Learn to work with a broad and complex mix of audit stakeholders including technical, operational, and regulatory subject matter experts

• Learn the foundations of data analysis and how data insights are gleaned and shared with senior execs

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience working in Microsoft Excel  Basic understanding of financial accounting principles

• Essentials needed for the positions that are similar across the above roles (these do not all have to apply to every single role)  

• Must be actively enrolled in a U.S. accredited college or university degree program for the full duration of the internship (proof of enrollment required) 

• Must be a rising Junior or Senior (18 years or older) 

• Must be in academic good standing (3.0 or above GPA) 

• Warner Bros. Discovery will only consider candidates who are presently authorized to work for any employer in the United States and who will not require work visa sponsorship from Warner Bros. Discovery