Accounting Intern

We are looking for a driven Accounting Intern with a basic understanding of GAAP, RFIS, and financial principles and terms who is ready for an immersive, real-world experience. Under the supervision of our staff, the Accounting Intern can expect to participate in the preparation of journal entries and financial reports, analyze actual financial data, learn more about bookkeeping software, and assist with other accounting activities. You should be a motivated team player who can maintain efficiency and accuracy when multitasking.To be a strong candidate for an Accounting Internship, you should possess an understanding of accounting and financial principles and a positive attitude. You should be collaborative, trustworthy, receptive to feedback, and eager to learn.Accounting Intern Responsibilities:Shadowing members of the Accounting department as they perform their duties.Assisting with research, filing, data entry, and recording and maintaining accurate and complete financial records.Preparing financial reports, such as balance sheets and income statements, invoices, and other documents.Working with bookkeeping software.Handling sensitive or confidential information with honesty and integrity.Learning how to work as part of the Accounting team to compile and analyze data, track information, and support the company or clients.Taking on additional tasks or projects to learn more about accounting and office operations.Accounting Intern Requirements:Must be a recent graduate or actively working towards a Bachelor’s or Masters in Accounting.Satisfactory completion of introductory accounting courses and a basic understanding of accounting and financial principles.Aptitude for math, proficiency with computers.Strong verbal and written communication skills.High level of efficiency, accuracy, and responsibility.Motivation and a strong desire to take on new challenges and learn as much as possible.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Software Development

At Okos Smart Homes we are able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 2 computer science students. The primary focus for the student will be: Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable for our website; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization.Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application.Software Architecture Development - Architecting the software of a new product; improving the architecture of an existing system; porting an architecture of one system into another.Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - Conducting a needs analysis; researching available options; evaluating the options within the context of our organization's budget, immediate needs, and projected needs.Application Programming Interfaces - Redesigning an existing API to simplify it; changing API technologies; designing a new API; creating or updating public-facing documentation.Machine Learning Software Solution - Creating a recommendation engine; spotting trends in existing data; spotting anomalies in data sets. Real-Time Data Visualization - Creating a charting system with basic querying functionality; creating a dashboard to visualize key performance metrics of our organization or tool.Software Lifecycle Analysis - Improving our existing software development lifecycle methodologies; determining if we should use a waterfall approach or an agile approach; researching tools for continuous delivery or integration.Open Source Software Management - Researching potential open source tools for our organization’s use; contributing to open source projects through bug fixing or feature implementation.Database Analysis - Decreasing query execution time; Changing ORM code in hotspots to more efficient SQL.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning website.Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application.Software Architecture Development - For the student(s) to provide a solution to our architecture issue to ensure optimal performance and sustainability.Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - For the student(s) to help us choose the most ideal software to invest in based on our user and/or organizational needs.Application Programming Interfaces - For the student(s) to help us redesign an interface or hep us implement a new API.Machine Learning Software Solution - For the student(s) to help us develop effective machine learning solutions that improve our customers' experience each time they interact with our brand.Real-Time Data Visualization - For the student(s) to help us devise and implement a data visualization system to help our organization derive insights to inform decision-making.Software Lifecycle Analysis - For the student(s) to help us optimize our software development systems and procedures.Open Source Software Management - For the student(s) to help us develop a set of tools we can implement in a new product build.Database Analysis - For the student(s) to help us improve our data storage and querying.Other duties the student may complete could include: (indicate other duties as exemplified below)Software vendor research and evaluationAssisting with other process improvement projectsUnit and integration testingResponding to IT/Service Desk requestsWe will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Slack Zoom Emails Student's primary contact: Boris Besner, President and CEO at Okos Smart Homes at Okos Smart Homes

Growth Marketing Internship / Stage en marketing de croissance

Version française ci-dessousAt Okos Smart Homes it is important for us to have a better understanding of how our target audience perceives our brand and competitors. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our marketing strategy. Your main duties will include running experiments across the funnel, improving conversion rate, and working cross-department to collaborate on new initiatives. This is why we are looking for two interns who can join our team! This project will include:Work with cross-functional team (Product, Services, Sales) to establish growth strategies to support revenue goals.Create, manage and experiment with new user acquisition campaigns.Manage all social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube) and drive content creation.Manage SEO.Analyze data to monitor revenue performance and uncover areas for improvement.Brainstorm and find new opportunities and work with the marketing team.We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as personnel, website analytics, sales and brand collateral, and more. ObjectiveYour main duties will include running experiments across the funnel, improving conversion rate, and working cross-department to collaborate on new initiatives. *****************************************Chez Maisons Intelligentes Okos, il est important pour nous de mieux comprendre comment notre public cible perçoit notre marque et nos concurrents. Nous voulons clarifier nos avantages concurrentiels et optimiser notre stratégie de marketing. Vos principales tâches consisteront à mener des expériences à travers l'entonnoir, à améliorer le taux de conversion et à travailler en collaboration entre les différents services sur de nouvelles initiatives. C'est pourquoi nous recherchons deux stagiaires qui peuvent rejoindre notre équipe!Ce projet comportera : Travailler avec l'équipe multifonctionnelle (produits, services, ventes) pour établir des stratégies de croissance afin de soutenir les objectifs de revenus.Créer, gérer et expérimenter de nouvelles campagnes d'acquisition d'utilisateurs.Gérer toutes les plateformes de médias sociaux (y compris Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube) et diriger la création de contenu.Gérer le référencement.Analyser les données pour suivre les performances en matière de revenus et découvrir les domaines à améliorer.Faire des réflexions, découvrir de nouvelles opportunités et travailler avec l'équipe marketing.Nous vous donnerons accès aux ressources organisationnelles nécessaires pour soutenir ce projet, telles que le personnel, l'analyse des sites Web, les ventes et le collatéral de la marque, etc. Objectif :Vos principales tâches consisteront à mener des expériences à travers l'entonnoir, à améliorer le taux de conversion et à travailler en collaboration avec d'autres services sur de nouvelles initiatives.

SEO and Social Media Strategy

Our team is looking to take our social media presence to the next level in order to drive traffic to our pages. To do this, we hope to improve our search engine optimization, and create an optimal schedule for our social media posts to be uploaded.This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Researching keywords to determine the most relevant terms that our customers search for.Researching Search Engine Optimization requirements for us to rank on the first page of Google.Constructing a content calendar to upload social media content for the maximum possible traffic .Creating social media content using the most efficient keywords for our target audience while following the content calendar.Bonus steps in the process would also include:Using our company’s social media analytics to tailor the content calendar to our customers activity, rather than general trends