The Canteen Operations Summer Internship is a PAID structured 8-week program designed to strengthen your leadership skills & business acumen and give you the opportunity to test drive a career in Operations.

When you join our Internship Program, you'll acquire highly marketable skills and experience pertaining to every aspect of running a successful business. You'll soon discover that every day is different because it is filled with so many new, exciting, rewarding and often unexpected challenges

This Internship Program is a great way to jumpstart your career. Interns will work in one of a number of key areas in Canteen’s Operation team, based in Charlotte, NC which could include:

Areas of focus:

Finance/Accounting/Analytics

• Work under supervision of accountants
• Help with reconciliation of accounts payable and receivable
• Help with reconciliation of business licenses
• Support the payment processing team
• Assist with one weekly physical inventory (truck / warehouse)
• Assist with one physical inventory reconciliation (truck / warehouse)
• Help with month-end closing journals
• Help with scan, reference and file journals
• Perform P&L analytics
• Present P&L analytics to management by using presentation tools such as Microsoft Power Point
• Help accounting team with the other assigned work
• Upon successful completion of the internship, and with your unit’s recommendation, you may be offered a position to join us in your career after graduation as a Manager in Training Program Trainee

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience:

To be eligible for our internship, you should be in your junior year, on your way to earning a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.

A cumulative 3.0 GPA minimum is preferred.

All majors will be considered for this opportunity

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to read, write and interpret instructional documents such as reports and procedure manual

Mathematical Skills:

Above average mathematical skills, including the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages, and the ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to promote teamwork through problem-solving and managing complex relationships

Other Qualifications:

• Valid driver’s license and good driving record
• Ability to work in a fast paced distribution environment while meeting established distribution quotas and standards
• Intellectual curiosity, positive attitude, self-motivation, professional business ethics, assertiveness, and an aptitude for helping others solve problems.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on the unit’s needs.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to talk or hear, sit, move around, walk and stand for majority of the time, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Compass Group PLC is a world-leading food and support services company whose history can be traced back over 60 years. As a FTSE 100 listed company we generated an annual revenue of £17.8 billion in the year to 30 September 2015, operate in around 50 countries, employ over 500,000 people and serve over 4 billion meals every year.