Student Intern, Financial Planning & Analysis

16 Month Internship

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) is a US$7.9 billion global leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions. We bring global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. Through our unrivalled customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges.

Celestica is a high-integrity work environment and when you join Celestica you are a part of a leading global company that enables the world’s best brands, and contributes to our innovative and collaborative solutions that help our customers unlock the potential of the future.

Our global network spans 15 countries with 26,000 employees across the Americas, Europe and Asia. At our Toronto headquarters, we are focused on attracting top talent into our organization, including interns from universities and colleges. 

Celestica's internship program provides students with valuable development through real-life work experience, exciting projects and networking with industry professionals.

Benefits for Students Include:

• Experience working for one of the largest Canadian global technology companies
• Possibility of a student casual contract position after completion of internship 
• Possibility of a full-time position after completion of degree 
• Access to Celestica’s development programs and projects
• Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program – two paid days off to volunteer per year
• Fun intern activities including celebration events and networking
• Internal recognition programs and rewards for stellar performance

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity: Job experience at a large Canadian-based global company
• Innovation: We look to our employees to implement new ideas and improve the way we do things
• Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology
• Sustainability: We uphold strong ethics, reduce our impact on the environment and empower employees to give back to the community with two paid days off per year to volunteer
• Development opportunities: including soft skills courses, innovation projects and mentorship
• Networking: Strategically build your professional network to advance your career and deepen relationships across your peers and colleagues
• Fun: Our interns have the opportunity to participate in fun activities including intern social events, Celestica’s charitable initiatives and our Spirit Week activities 

About this Opportunity:

Our team is seeking a well-rounded individual who has a keen interest in learning about accounting and finance. This individual will be working with the cost accounting team as well as the financial planning & analysis team to process and report the financial statements for various Celestica customers. The ideal candidate should be enrolled in an accounting or finance program and have a basic understanding of corporate accounting policies.

Preferred Skills:

• Self-motivated to work and learn. Continually takes on initiatives and thinks of creative solutions
• Strong analytical skills; ability to process numbers quickly and effectively in order to draw informative conclusions
• Interpersonal skills; Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a variety of teams, internal/external to Finance
• Ability to multi-task and organize workloads to work with tight deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Basic knowledge of finance/accounting
• Understands and can apply corporate accounting policies
• Knowledge of computer applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Suite and multiple business applications
• Advanced knowledge of Excel is preferred including the ability to create spreadsheet macros and use excel functions
• Experience with SAP would be an asset

Activities:

• Working with the cost accounting team and financial planning & analysis team to process and report financial statements for various Celestica customers
• Preparation and maintenance of files necessary to forecast customer financials
• Weekly tracking and presentation of customer revenues and expenses, including labour, freight, and production
• Manage customer finances, including inventory, AR and AP
• Implementation of cost accounting methods to close customer P&L statements and balance sheets monthly, quarterly and yearly
• Daily use of SAP, Microsoft Excel, and Longview for Excel
• Participation in the site Annual Physical Inventory audit

Physical Demands:

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office with exposure to manufacturing environments.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc).

Additional Details:

Area: Finance

Start Date: May 2025

Location: 213 Harry Walker Drive South, Newmarket, ON 

Vacancies: 1

Experience: No formal experience is required

Education: Enrolled in a formal University or College Internship or Co-op program. Completing 3rd year in a 4-year program or 4th year in a 5-year program in Accounting or Finance. 

***As this position involves work that is subject to the Canadian Government's Controlled Goods Program (CGP), your employment offer is conditional upon the successful completion of a security assessment by Celestica and/or its authorized agents, per the Controlled Goods Regulations.

To apply, please visit www.celestica.com. Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application. Please include your student email address in your application.