Tax Intern | Detroit Summer 2028

Riverside Healthcare is seeking a Tax Intern to join the KPMG Tax practice, where you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the top tax firms in the world. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG’s extensive network of specialists and access our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring.

About the role

This internship offers the opportunity to perform tax-related tasks for a variety of clients across different industries, including multistate and multinational enterprises such as partnerships, corporations, and S-corporations. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, build capabilities in key technologies, and sustain excellent client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Perform tax-related tasks, including compliance, advising, and planning for clients in different industries, multistate and/or multinational enterprises (partnerships, corporations, and S-corporations).
• Participate in data analytics assignments using KPMG technology, create tax return work papers and tax returns for clients, and coordinate offshore resources.
• Perform tax due diligence to identify tax exposures and opportunities.
• Assist multi-state companies with state and local tax issues, including compliance, advising, planning, and controversies.
• Advise multinational enterprises on business decisions such as location and operation choices, entity selection, supply chain optimization, and capital access and mobilization to fund global operations.
• Support tax planning decisions, helping clients anticipate and understand short- and long-term considerations while evaluating multinational tax risk profiles, global effective tax rates, and cash posture.
• Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery, such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, and more.

Requirements

• Must be enrolled in an accredited college or university pursuing a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in business, accounting, finance, taxation, mathematics, economics, information technology, data and analytics, engineering (financial, industrial, or systems), or an equivalent program.
• Preferred degrees and/or areas of study: Accounting and Taxation.
• Pursuing educational requirements for CPA licensure in the principal place of business (the state in which the office is located) for this position (completion of academic credits required prior to starting as a Tax Associate).
• Upon completion of this internship, candidates must have additional academic credits to complete before obtaining their degree and/or CPA eligibility requirements.
• Preferred GPA of 3.0 or above.
• Coursework or minor in information systems, software engineering, computer science, or data and analytics preferred.
• Must reside within a reasonably commutable distance to the office for this position and be able to travel to reasonably commutable work locations using a personal vehicle or public transportation.
• Ability to travel and/or work on-site at client premises as needed, at times with relatively short notice.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa).

Skills

• Strong technical, business acumen, critical thinking, and agility skills.
• Demonstrated ability to excel and drive strategic outcomes, coupled with a professional demeanor and collaborative leadership approach in a dynamic, evolving environment.
• Demonstrated quality service mindset and strong technical aptitude.
• Ability to learn and navigate technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, MS Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), and apply emerging technologies to enhance tax processes and insights.
• Excellent communication, time management, and leadership skills.
• Feedback-oriented and resourceful in delivering high-quality work.

Benefits

KPMG offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits include:

• A variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plans.
• A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health.
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, depending on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service.
• Two annual breaks where employees are not required to use Personal Time Off: one at year-end and another around the July 4th holiday.

Additional details about benefits can be found on the KPMG US Careers site under Benefits & How We Work.

Pay

KPMG complies with all local and state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant’s skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and market considerations. For city-specific salary ranges outside of California, visit KPMG’s Pay Transparency page.