Michael Foods
Accounting Intern (Summer 2025)
Michael Foods, Lakeville, Minnesota, United States, 55044
Business Unit Overview
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles 'n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.
Brand
Post Consumer Brands offers a robust summer immersive & transformative internship experience that will present you with a meaningful business problem to ideate and collaborate cross-functionally that will lead to you presenting recommended solutions to improve the business. Post Consumer Brands is unique as our core values & mission is at the forefront of our efforts. Consider joining our team to launch the success story of your career journey.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities
Post Consumer Brands is looking for a transformational Accounting Intern for a 12-week summer 2025 immersive internship experience.This position will provide visibility into multiple functions including Accounting, Treasury and Financial Reporting. Consider joining our team to launch the success story of your career journey and help us deliver our purpose of:
To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
To fully realize the value of diversity of talent, experience, strengths, and backgrounds each of us brings to Post Consumer Brands, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on these behaviors:
Be open to new ideasListen attentively as a partnerModel collaborationBe accountableRespect all viewpointsJOB FUNCTION
As an Accounting Intern working with Post Consumer Brands' General Ledger Accounting group, you will help with inputs to financial reporting. Your work will support key decisions made by our Leadership Team.
MAJOR JOB ACTIVITIES / DUTIES
The Accounting Intern may assist in several project and/or operations support roles in the finance department.Assignments may include work such as:
Perform GAAP research and design and implement the standardCreate and build reports to be used by the accounting teamDesign automation for repetitive tasksLearn to discover, interpret, and communicate meaningful patterns in dataSpecific project and operational roles will be identified 30-60 days prior to the start of the internship, based on business need and intern interests.
Qualifications
Candidates must be pursuing a four-year undergraduate or graduate degree or at an institution with an accredited program in Accounting, graduating December 2025 or May 2026.We are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the futureMotivated, curious individual with a desire to learn, understand, and ask questionsAbility to work independently and in teamsStrong written and oral communication skillsThe ideal candidate is a self-starter who takes initiative to identify areas of opportunity and take actionA high level of competence in computer applications and the ability to use technology as a decision-support toolAbility to handle confidential information and use discretion within and outside of the organizationPrevious internship or work experience (preferred)Interest in the consumer packaged goods / manufacturing industry with the desire to start a career with Post Consumer Brands after graduation (preferred)
Additional Program Information & Perks
Offering competitive compensationAccess to a dynamic internship event program including development, networking, & social activitiesEligible for subsidized housing & $2,500 relocation stipendCereal galore - enjoy a variety of cereal and oatmeal options in our break room, for free. Free milk, coffee, and conversation included as well. We promise you won't be disappointed.
Please note that this position will be posted until October 15th. Applications will be reviewed in the following weeks and candidates will receive a status update by October 31st.
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles 'n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.
Brand
Post Consumer Brands offers a robust summer immersive & transformative internship experience that will present you with a meaningful business problem to ideate and collaborate cross-functionally that will lead to you presenting recommended solutions to improve the business. Post Consumer Brands is unique as our core values & mission is at the forefront of our efforts. Consider joining our team to launch the success story of your career journey.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities
Post Consumer Brands is looking for a transformational Accounting Intern for a 12-week summer 2025 immersive internship experience.This position will provide visibility into multiple functions including Accounting, Treasury and Financial Reporting. Consider joining our team to launch the success story of your career journey and help us deliver our purpose of:
To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
To fully realize the value of diversity of talent, experience, strengths, and backgrounds each of us brings to Post Consumer Brands, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on these behaviors:
Be open to new ideasListen attentively as a partnerModel collaborationBe accountableRespect all viewpointsJOB FUNCTION
As an Accounting Intern working with Post Consumer Brands' General Ledger Accounting group, you will help with inputs to financial reporting. Your work will support key decisions made by our Leadership Team.
MAJOR JOB ACTIVITIES / DUTIES
The Accounting Intern may assist in several project and/or operations support roles in the finance department.Assignments may include work such as:
Perform GAAP research and design and implement the standardCreate and build reports to be used by the accounting teamDesign automation for repetitive tasksLearn to discover, interpret, and communicate meaningful patterns in dataSpecific project and operational roles will be identified 30-60 days prior to the start of the internship, based on business need and intern interests.
Qualifications
Candidates must be pursuing a four-year undergraduate or graduate degree or at an institution with an accredited program in Accounting, graduating December 2025 or May 2026.We are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the futureMotivated, curious individual with a desire to learn, understand, and ask questionsAbility to work independently and in teamsStrong written and oral communication skillsThe ideal candidate is a self-starter who takes initiative to identify areas of opportunity and take actionA high level of competence in computer applications and the ability to use technology as a decision-support toolAbility to handle confidential information and use discretion within and outside of the organizationPrevious internship or work experience (preferred)Interest in the consumer packaged goods / manufacturing industry with the desire to start a career with Post Consumer Brands after graduation (preferred)
Additional Program Information & Perks
Offering competitive compensationAccess to a dynamic internship event program including development, networking, & social activitiesEligible for subsidized housing & $2,500 relocation stipendCereal galore - enjoy a variety of cereal and oatmeal options in our break room, for free. Free milk, coffee, and conversation included as well. We promise you won't be disappointed.
Please note that this position will be posted until October 15th. Applications will be reviewed in the following weeks and candidates will receive a status update by October 31st.