2025 Summer Intern - Springfield Financial Services

Job Location: Southwest District Office (3025 E. Kearney, Springfield, MO 65802)

Why you’ll love this position:

The financial services intern performs routine entry-level financial accounting, reporting, and support services activities. Responsibilities are performed under moderate supervision.

• Review documents, forms, and reports to determine if payroll coding, transactions, and adjustments are correct; verify accuracy of timesheet coding; make payroll corrections; prepare reimbursements; may process forms necessary to enroll, maintain and update employee benefits.
• Perform various accounting functions, including reconciliations; monitoring delinquent accounts; depositing daily receipts; processing invoices and initiating vendor payments; assisting with the calculation of various overhead rates; and monitoring records for consumable inventories and capital/fixed assets.
• Maintain accounting records and prepare financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and Governmental Accounting Standards Board statements for the department, medical and life insurance plan, and self-insurance plan.
• Coordinate and conduct capital/fixed asset physical inventory and coordinates statewide physical inventory of capital/fixed assets and consumable inventory.
• Create documents for federally funded projects; monitor categories of cost for federal reimbursement; prepare Federal Highway Administration billing and final vouchers; submit documentation and maintain records for letters of credit.
• Compile information for various financial reports.
• Monitor daily cash balance for various funds and support the operating budget.
• Assist with research and report preparation for special requests of financial and statistical information.
• Analyze proposed state/federal legislation for possible fiscal impact on the department and prepares fiscal notes.
• Perform other responsibilities as required or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Enrolled in a relevant bachelor’s or post-bachelor’s degree program full-time (12+ credit hours).
• 30 credit hours completed/accepted toward current degree program. High school or other postsecondary program credits must be shown to be accepted by the current program through a degree transcript to apply.
• Possess and maintain an overall GPA of at least 2.0 out of 4.0, or equivalent.

At MoDOT you will play a key role in maintaining the seventh largest highway system in the United States. We value team players who are open-minded and work well with others to accomplish goals and fulfill our mission of safety, service, and stability. We see the growth of our team members as an investment, both in MoDOT's future and yours. If you're looking for diverse opportunities, challenging work, and a flexible environment, we want to talk to you about joining our winning team. MoDOT operates on shared values and your success in our organization depends upon modeling these values. CLICK HERE to view our mission, values, and tangible results. If you embrace these values, we welcome your application.

Southwest District Human Resources at swhr@modot.mo.gov

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