Accounting and Finance Intern

Intern / Student, Full or part-time · Amsterdam

Our vision
Fung is on a mission to create PSP 3.0. A new Payment Service Provider to provide infrastructure for powering online businesses with payment services including web3 technologies, digital assets and cryptocurrency.

Learning from decades of payments experience from the traditional payments world in engineering, commercial and compliance, Fung’s team has set out to build the first regulated platform to natively support web3 and web2 payments in a seamless way. Leveraging modern cloud computing paradigms, and with the deep understanding of payments, we are powering current and future commerce with success-defining infrastructure.
How will you make an impact?

Fung is building its finance team and you will be a part of the foundation team. During your internship, you will have the opportunity to learn about the financial side of running a regulated payment institution and FinTech.  You will bring your newly minted accounting and finance skills to a workplace that will give you an opportunity to shine.  

Every member in the Fung team contributes to our success!

Responsibilities
  • Learn the fundamentals of accounting and payment operations through on-the-job and formal training
  • Participate in top secret finance projects that will be the foundation of Fung's future success
  • Assist with the day-to-day financial control activities
  • Prepare financial reports and analysis for management
  • Enhance the structure, templates and checklist for close activities and audit

Support from a highly skilled team with payments workshops and one-to-one training will help you to succeed.

Experience & Skills
  • Currently studying towards your Bachelor or Master in: Business, Finance, Accountancy or Economics.  
    If you have studied in another field but have a passion to expand into the finance field - we would love to consider your application.
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Attention to detail (accuracy)
  • You have an interest in FinTech and Payments - you want to learn everything there is to know about this awesome industry
  • An entrepreneurial spirit – eager and ambitious self-starter
  • Commercial mindset
  • Advanced user of Excel or Google Sheets
  • Business fluency in English
Team
We are a group of payment nerds, tech geeks, and most importantly believers, that the world of payments is due to change, and we are in a prime position to drive this change. With powerful technology and knowledge at our hands. We come from all corners of the world, and all walks of life and we try to bring the best out of every one of us every day.

Our founding team (in the picture below)

CEO — Alex Schoonkind
Experienced Payments guru with over 10 years in Financial services in startup, scale-up & enterprise. Leading a number of teams, over many successful projects. Keen sense of humour, the embodiment of Dutch direct communication, no BS mentality.

CPTO — Konstantin Indjov
Core-developer at a Bitcoin Exchange (CleverCoin) in 2015; Core-developer at Full-Stack Payments Platform (Dimebox), acquired by Verifone; Architect for Global E-commerce @ Verifone; Serial startup die-hard, runs Bulgarian blood.

Chief Legal & Compliance — Andrei Valeanu
Multiple financial companies (Nationale Nederlanden, Ingenico). Built the compliance program at Uber and lead development of a proprietary in-house AML model to enable mass-scale onboarding of customers. The internal police. Descendant of Transylvania.


How we work
founding-team

  • Everyone gets trust and autonomy. We trust you to act.
  • We keep everyone in the loop at all times, about all things going on in the company. Feel free to ask us anything or make proposals for improvements.
  • We favour written communication for internal knowledge and processes, so that remote work is smooth and you don't feel lost.
  • We work in a growing industry and we learn every day.
  • We are risk takers, and believers, we like to experiment and learn from it. And you are given time to do it.
What we offer
  • The duration of our internships is usually 6 months (renewable). As an intern, you'll receive an internship allowance
  • Opportunity to grow your role into a full-time position with Fung
  • Learn from payments veterans
  • New MacBook, noise-cancellation headphones, standing desk and all your needed gear to be your best self
  • Office in Pand Noord, is the fastest growing neighborhood - Amsterdam Noord.  Just a short walk from Norderpark metro station.
  • Company lunch with warm food, where we share a table.
  • There is a private cinema, table tennis, football table and a terrace for BBQs.
  • We love plants, so the office is always green.
  • We work in hybrid way, where you can choose to be every day in the office, or only some days in a week.
  • Friday drinks, and other outings to share time together
  • Got questions or something you really want? Let's talk about it!

Please note that a background check (including criminal records and two-references) is part of the recruitment process.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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