June 5 - August 11, 2023

This is an ideal opportunity for college Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors or anyone looking to gain exposure in an innovative, fast-paced marketing and advertising agency. This is a full-time, virtual, paid internship from June 5 to August 11, 2023. Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Company Description

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Dentsu Group Inc. websites: https://www.group.dentsu.com/en/ and https://www.dentsu.com/

About dentsu Creative

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise.

Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. We do it daily for notable brands.
 

Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu international’s global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career.

Part of Dentsu International, Dentsu Creative is a Global Creative Network that transforms brands and businesses through the power of Modern Creativity. Led by Global Chief Creative Officer Fred Levron, 9,000 experts across the globe work seamlessly together to deliver ideas that Create Culture, Shape Society and Invent the Future. Dentsu Creative was launched in June 2022 to address a client need for simplicity and will be Dentsu International’s sole creative network by the end of 2022.

Dentsu Creative Finance Internship Program

This program is designed to introduce financial professionals to the creative advertising industry. Candidates will have the ability to explore finance and accounting career paths by leveraging our finance network, senior mentors, technical hands-on experience, and access to company development tools.   

Role: Commercial Finance, Accounting, or FP&A intern

Time period: June 5, 2023 – August 11, 2023.

Hourly rate: $15 hour

Location: Remote (if in Chicago or New York market in-person dates for team building may be applicable)

Eligibility

• Cumulative GPA of 3.0
• Enrolled in an accredited College/University and pursuing a Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related business degree
• Must be eligible to work on a permanent basis in the United States

Qualifications

• Passion and commitment to learning
• Strong, effective written and oral communications skills
• Highly motivated, self-starter
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Problem-solving attitude
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Microsoft Excel Skills Preferred Qualifications

You will apply your classroom knowledge across the following finance disciplines:

​Commercial Finance: Provides financial/commercial advice to ensure achievement of revenue and profit targets both in the short and long-term by identifying and addressing critical business issues.

Controllership: Deliver high quality financial reporting (management and statutory) to the Dentsu board and key stakeholders (Dentsu Inc and external auditors).  Provide analysis and actionable insight to senior Dentsu management on business performance.  Ensure group compliance with financial reporting, revenues and accounting standards.  Provide expert technical support to the business on accounting matters.  Support the business and other functions/ specialist finance areas.  To support the business in delivering and maintaining a high quality global financial reporting system.

Finance Leadership: This discipline comprises of business facing key roles in the function.  The roles have accountability for being the key partner / advisor for the business leaders on strategic finance priorities.  These roles have the oversight, and will leverage, multiple disciplines within the finance job family to deliver on the business goals.

Operational Finance: Delivery of effective finance transactional process with the right controls, improvements, reporting and operational insights to keep the business running

Risk & Audit: Our objective is to help safeguard the current and future economic value of Dentsu, primarily through undertaking reviews of key controls and also other projects such as fraud investigations and acquisition reviews.

Responsibilities can include

• Exposure to client contracting, negotiation strategies, and pricing development
• Assisting with annual, monthly, and quarterly budgeting forecasting
• Learning company margin management
• Creating budget and forecast templates
• Assisting with monthly financial close and account reconciliations
• Analyzing financial information to support company decision making
• Providing support in the preparation of client pricing and staffing plans
• Preparing and posting journal entries
• Recommending process improvements
• Reconciling Cash, Intercompany, and project balances
• Monitoring job activity, prepare and assist with fee, and production reconciliations and investigate discrepancies
• Ad-Hoc reports and financial analysis

We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. To us, representation means more than just diversity, it means true equity. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. We are constantly evaluating our practices and policies, creating and sustaining pathways to promotion, and intentional in how we create and distribute resources, giving people what they need to grow. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create opportunities for everyone. We offer team member support through flexible working arrangements and schedules that promote work/life balance along with progressive parental and caregiver programs as well as opportunities to give back to the community as part of our global social responsibility efforts.

If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $15.00/hour. Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. 

Four Signature Strengths Unite Us:

• Boundless Creativity: We run toward the future, forever asking: What’s next? Our imagination has no limit. Our clients seek us out because we believe there is no problem we cannot solve with the power of modern creativity.
• Intelligent Scale: Flowing the right talent around the right brief in the right moment, wherever it sits in the world. We scale our unique ideas with precision, using intelligent technology to make personal connections with millions around the world.
• Obsessive Craft:  Elevating the soul of our work with an obsessive focus on craft, nurturing the next-gen craft skills needed to soar in a modern world.
• Radical Collaboration: Charting new territory through the power of radical collaboration. We seamlessly connect Creativity, Media and CXM to imagine new solutions at the intersection of craft, data, culture and innovation.

Click here to see how these strengths reflect our Japanese heritage.

Learn more about how we ground our ambitions in the global Eight Ways.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. Employment-based visa sponsorship (including H-1B sponsorship) is not available for this position.