Overall Job Function: If you are looking to gain first-hand knowledge and experience in a real-world setting, an internship at Farmers Coop Society could be right for you.
Explore the business and accounting environment in the agricultural and cooperative industry.
You will be based out of our Sioux Center, Iowa office and be working with our business office team.
Essential Job Functions:
• Spend time rotating through various business divisions within the company (grain, feed, agronomy, lumber).
• Exposure to various components of accounting functions such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, deposits, inventory, and financial statement preparation.
• Be assigned certain tasks to obtain experience of responsibility related to certain functions
• Access to department leaders and experts.
• Participate in special projects
• Discuss and provide feedback on observed opportunities for improvement.
What we can offer:
• Actively involved mentor
• Internship-specific training
• Networking with company and industry leaders
• Job shadows in other departments as desired, including operations, agronomy, grain,
• feed, and accounting/finance
• Other learning opportunities as the season, time, and your interests allow
Competencies
• Demonstrates leadership, strong initiative, and decision-making skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Strong team player who can demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment
• High level of innovation, enthusiasm, integrity, professionalism, and dependability
• Organized, resourceful, and curious
• Strong attention to detail
Education & Experience:
• Currently pursuing a degree in accounting or ag business.
Work Environment:
This position is based in a fast-paced office setting.
Typical working hours are based on customer and organizational demand; hours may be long, irregular and include weekends and holidays during peak season.
Physical Demands:
While performing job functions the employee will be required to talk and hear most of the time.
The employee will spend frequent intervals moving and sitting, while also needing to reach, bend, twist, crawl, crouch, stoop or kneel.
The employee will need to be able to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally.
The physicality of this job is low.
*FCS job descriptions are a representation of a job requirements knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.