About the opportunity
As an Intern - Fintech, you will support the Fintech Financial Controller in maintaining the integrity, completeness, and timeliness of core Fintech control activities across multiple product lines. In this role, you will play a critical part in strengthening financial governance, ensuring robust data oversight, managing recurring reconciliation workflows, and eliminating single points of failure across key financial processes.
Financial Reconciliation: Assist in the periodic reconciliation of financial flows, supporting data validation and identifying financial discrepancies across multiple Fintech product lines.
Period-End Closure: Track, investigate, and follow up on unresolved items to ensure smooth, accurate, and timely month-end and period-end closing cycles.
Variance Analysis: Support variance analysis against established benchmarks, proactively flagging operational anomalies and financial deviations for senior review.
Cost Control Support: Contribute to cost control effectiveness by systematically monitoring expense deviations and escalating operational risks before they impact financial performance.
Tracker & Log Maintenance: Maintain, structure, and update key financial logs, reconciliation trackers, and audit documentation across assigned Fintech service streams.
Data Accuracy & Integrity: Continuously monitor the completeness and accuracy of financial records to ensure full alignment with underlying transactional activity.
What you need to be successful
Educational Background: Recent graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, advanced logical formulas, structured data manipulation).
Detail-Oriented & Analytical: Exceptional attention to detail, comfort working with large datasets, and a structured approach to problem-solving.
Process Reliability: Ability to manage recurring monitoring tasks and routine control workflows with consistency, ownership, and follow-through.
Communication & Proactivity: Clear written and verbal communication skills in English, with a proactive approach to escalating issues and following up across teams.
Control & Domain Awareness (Bonus): Familiarity with financial control concepts, reconciliation frameworks, or prior exposure to audit, fintech, or payment processing environments is a plus.
Technical Bonus: Basic knowledge of data querying or scripting tools (e.g., SQL, Python) is an advantage.
Who we are
Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.
