Internal Audit Intern

Join Coinbase's Internal Audit team as a summer intern (12 weeks in 2027). You'll provide independent, risk-based assurance and advisory services that strengthen governance, compliance, risk management, and internal controls across the company. You'll get hands-on experience supporting one of three audit areas: Information Technology (IT), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), or Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC), owning real audit work from planning through reporting while exploring how emerging technologies like AI can improve audit quality and efficiency.

What you'll do

• Own assigned audit work end-to-end with guidance from the Internal Audit team, and present observations to leadership in clear, actionable terms
• Build accurate, detailed workpapers that clearly describe work performed, testing results, and conclusions for each audit project
• Analyze datasets using SQL or other analytics tools to test control populations, identify exceptions, and support data-driven audit conclusions
• Apply professional skepticism to evaluate evidence, challenge assumptions, and identify control design gaps or operational deficiencies that others may overlook
• Map complex business processes into structured process flows and control narratives, identifying key control points, dependencies, and risk areas through walkthroughs with process owners
• Explore and prototype how AI and emerging technologies can improve audit processes and outcomes

What you bring

• Currently pursuing a BA/BS degree with coursework in accounting, finance, data analytics, or risk management, with exposure to internal controls, audit frameworks, or risk management concepts through academic or project experience
• Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical reasoning, including the ability to evaluate evidence, identify patterns and anomalies, challenge assumptions, and draw well-supported, independent conclusions
• Ability to understand and document complex business workflows by translating multi-step processes into clear process flows, control matrices, and risk assessments
• Intermediate experience with at least one data analytics or visualization tool (e.g., Tableau, SQL, Power BI, Python)
• Experience documenting audit findings, control observations, or analytical conclusions in written format and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders
• The ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Nice to have

• Experience with flowcharting tools

What we offer

• Hourly rate of $40 USD
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" (Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only)

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates as a remote-first organization and brings teams together quarterly for intensive in-person collaboration.