1. Financial Controls Internship
Diebold Inc. 5995 Mayfair Rd,
North Canton, Ohio 44720
December 2013-May 2014

2. Beginning My Internship
• Began on December 13, 2013
• Began with technical finance training and formal orientation
• Excited to have my first paid internship with a manufacturing firm
• Nervous at the start, but eager and ready to learn new technical and
analytical thinking skills
• Ambitious to learn about a professional company environment and to
work in a bigger financial department than previously
• Gained the chance to meet new people and other interns not only from
my school, but from other schools as well who had similar mindsets and
eager to learn attitudes

3. Goals/Ambitions
• Wanted this to be one of the best experiences I had
• Wished to learn more on how to be an effective team player and contribute
to the company’s ongoing success
• Wished to gain more experience both in interpersonal and professional
relationship building and behavioral skills
• Eager to gain more experience on the side of cost accounting, budgets, and
organization and preparation of genuine accounting documents
• Planned on learning from current Diebold managers and directors on what
it means to be an effective leader and how to become one myself

4. Duties and Responsibilities
• Supported overdue receivables analysis clearing internally and resolved
any outstanding amounts we had with my manager and supervisor
• Prepared monthly journal revenue volume reports and reported it to
our director for our monthly decision analysis
• Aided in supporting the analysis of our segment’s financial data with
my finance team
• Maintained price records in Diebold’s Oracle and Blackline record
systems
• Assisted my supervisors with minor accounting work they needed

5. Skills That I Learned
• New currency conversion formulas for excel and transaction pulling
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and completion in a timely urgent manner
• Working in an industrial business environment and learning about what
the aspects and operational settings
• Working in a professional office environment and how to communicate
within a cubicle office environment
• Balancing internship and school life in the same bubble and how to
manage my time more effectively
• Organizational office environment skills such as neatness and compiling

6. Why I Enjoyed It
• Enjoyed receiving the chance to meet new colleagues and help out
• Treasured the opportunity to learn new office skills and the first part
of how the industry side of accounting works
• Received the chance to gain further experience in my major and to
take on more advanced tasks as opposed to my first internship
• Loved the chance where I could speak and interact with the director
and general managers personally and reach out to them in any way I
could
• Made me want to go on to learn more in other industry firms

7. Next Steps In the Process
• Sought out other opportunities, both part time, full time, and internships,
both in industry (private) and public
• Continued on to finish my Summer classes for my undergraduate degree
and minor in supply chain management
• Became more knowledgeable in applying concepts to my accounting
classes and gained a better understanding of what I was learning
• Became more interested in the Supply Chain side of business and
operational development skills
• Obtained new accounting internship at Sterling Jewelers with this second
experience

8. Conclusions
• Thoroughly enjoyed my internship and gained valuable new skills
• Received the first chance to understand what the industry side of
accounting was really like and the role I played in it
• Helped me to understand what a collaborative team could be like in a
professional environment such as a bank manufacturing company
• Gained new technical accounting skills such as Visio, Excel tricks, Blackline
and Oracle
• Gained new communication skills and learned how to speak directly with
directors and supervisors
• Forced me to understand how I could balance academics and professional
work at the same time (greater time management skills)