Finance Intern

Location: Barcelona, Spain; hybrid workplace

Company

Madness is hiring for its People & Finance department, where the role supports the Finance team’s accounts payable and broader finance operations.

What you will do

• Receive, validate, code, register, and approve supplier invoices in the ERP; maintain supplier data and support vendor onboarding.
• Prepare payment proposals and payment batches, record payments, reconcile supplier statements and bank movements, and investigate unreconciled items.
• Support month-end close, including accruals, open-items reviews, aging reports, cash position updates, and cash flow reporting.
• Map finance processes, identify manual or error-prone steps, and help implement improvements using ERP workflows, Excel or Google Sheets models, scripts, or AI tools.
• Shadow Financial Controlling on reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and treasury, while supporting audits, analyses, reconciliations, and ad-hoc projects.

Requirements

• Currently studying or recently graduated in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• Basic understanding of accounting principles, including double entry, invoices, and VAT.
• Good Excel or Google Sheets skills, including formulas, pivot tables, and lookups.
• Fluent English required; Spanish is a plus.
• Detail-oriented, organised, comfortable handling deadlines, curious, proactive, and keen to improve existing processes.

Nice to have

• Experience with an ERP system, preferably NetSuite.
• Interest in automation and data tools, mainly AI tools.
• Previous internship or experience in a finance or accounting team.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time internship with real finance responsibilities from day one.
• Hands-on exposure to the full accounts payable cycle, Financial Controlling, reporting, and cash management.
• Opportunity to design and implement process improvements with visible impact.
• Mentoring from experienced finance professionals and practical learning across the finance function.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted in English to be considered.