Intern - Tax (Finance)
Position Title: Intern - Tax
Company Summary
For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic and diverse team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.
Role
Crown Castle's tax department supports the tower and network segments across the US. The summer intern role will assist with basic tax compliance, research, and analysis of federal, state and local tax matters. The role will provide exposure to various areas of the tax department which may include sales and use/transactional taxes, telecommunications regulatory compliance, income and franchise tax, property tax and/or business licenses.
Responsibilities
- Assist teammates in accumulating/manipulating/analyzing data via excel and pivots
- Assist with exemption certificate management and vendor requests
- Maintenance of tax jurisdiction codes
- Assist with review of tax returns
- Help gather documentation for audits
- Utilize OneSource tax preparation software to assist with preparing returns, extensions, estimated payments, etc.
- Assist the property tax payment process on paying property taxes to various authorities and landlords
- Assist with business license compliance to insure timely filing and payment
Expectations
- Proficient in all applications of Microsoft Office
- Exceptional organization/administrative skills and work ethic
- Interest and ability in learning and applying new tools and skills in a timely manner
- Ability to thrive and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and effective communication between teammates and mangers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to present complex information in a clear and simple format
- A constant example of modeling Crown's Purple values
Education/Certifications
- Currently enrolled as a full-time student in pursuit of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited higher education institution
- Preferred field(s) of study: Accounting
Skills and Experience
- Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) from June 2 to August 8, 2025
- Authorization to work in the U.S. on a full-time, regular basis without additional sponsorship
Reports to: Property Tax Manager
Work Plans: This role falls into our hybrid work model working in the office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. On Mondays and Fridays, teammates on the hybrid schedule will have the option to work from the office or home.
Compensation Information: The hourly pay offered for this position is $19.50 per hour.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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