Accounts Payable Intern

About the role

A Proven Winner: Join a hyper-growth company trusted by over 10% of the Fortune 500, continuing to move upmarket with massive impact. High Value, High Impact: With 47% of our revenue from $100K+ ARR customers and 135% Net Revenue Retention (NRR), you'll be joining a company rooted in value creation. Market-Leading Innovation: The Relay platform captures 1 billion new data points weekly and features award-winning AI tools like TeamTranslate™, with 500% YoY growth. World-Class Leadership: Our stellar leadership team is built to help us scale toward our next major milestones. The Relay Culture: We’re dedicated to helping you do the best work of your life (BWIML), investing in your growth through L.I.T., living our CHASE values, and learning from incredibly talented, supportive teammates who make the work (and the wins) better every day. Our culture hinges on Relayers getting LIT up in an environment that fosters Learning, Impact, and Teamwork, where we CHASE the best work of our lives. We call this BWIML (Best Work In My Life). The future of frontline work is being built here. Come build it with us.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with our Accounts Payable team in partnership with the Senior Manager of Accounts Payable and Director of Accounting on day-to-day AP operations, developing an understanding of Relay's procure-to-pay cycle along the way
• Partner with the Senior Manager of Accounts Payable and Director of Accounting on initiatives to innovate and streamline manual processes within AP — identifying inefficiencies, evaluating current workflows, and contributing to solutions that scale with the business
• Get hands-on exposure to how the team manages vendor invoice processing, payment runs, and expense management across our core systems — NetSuite, Tipalti, and Brex
• Take on a defined project during the internship focused on identifying a recurring manual process within the procure-to-pay cycle and either building a tool to automate it, conducting a deep analytical review to improve it, or developing documentation and training materials to support the team's operations
• Present your project findings/deliverables at our Intern Showcase at the end of the internship
• Support the broader Accounting team on ad hoc requests and special projects as needed

Requirements

• Accounting major completing their junior year (rising senior) - no prior AP or ERP experience required
• Comfortable working in Excel
• Experience or interest in using AI tools for data analysis
• Attention to detail and a solution-oriented mindset
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Curious, self-motivated, and comfortable asking questions

Qualifications

• Exposure to accounting coursework covering the procure-to-pay cycle
• Any familiarity with NetSuite, Tipalti, Brex, or similar AP and expense management platforms