Intern, Finance
Harbinger
Accounting & Finance
Garden Grove, CA, USA
USD 25-35 / hour
Posted on Oct 14, 2025
About Harbinger
Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.
Job Summary:
We are currently seeking an ambitious Business School student with a passion for structure, organization and continuous improvement to join our Finance team. You will gain valuable business skills and experience at a fast paced, high growth startup during a critical product launch stage and contribute to building the foundation (structure and process) of our Harbinger Finance team made up of Corporate FP&A, Engineering, Production and Commercial Finance Functions. The primary responsibilities for this position will vary as the group is growing quickly along with the rest of the company, so the main objective is to help steer our growth sustainably!
What You'll Do:
- FP&A Reporting and Analytics Champion: in the spirit of continuous improvement, create a working level checklist to serve as a control tool to optimize monthly reporting and analytics process
- Enhance monthly reporting and impactful board decks with your creative and analytical abilities
- Create an efficient P&L and CapEx review process for the FP&A team to be able to quickly spot potential accounting errors
- Manage the planning for certain departments and enhancing analytics around them (think IT spend, # licenses, cost per license and IT cost by Function of the organization as some examples)
- Systems & Automation Powerhouse: continue implementing and enhancing our planning software, NSPB (NetSuite Planning & Budgeting)
- Prioritize the models which need to be designed and implemented into the tool
- Document and organize process documentation and training sessions for the team
- Strategic Process & Organization Guru: partner with Accounting/Controllership team to obtain and share the key policies impacting the GL coding of Purchase Orders (capitalization, prepaid expenses) and analyze the systems and processes impacted to ensure accurate recording of transactions
Required Skills:
- Enrolled in Bachelor’s degree program or greater in related field; an MBA or other Masters Program (currently pursuing or completed) is highly preferred
- Work authorized in the United States OR ability to obtain J-1/F-1 visa
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years of full-time accounting/finance/analytics experience, with a strong preference for accounting/FP&A focus. You've been in the trenches and know how to get things done.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You can translate complex financial concepts into clear, concise, and compelling business language that inspires action.
- Startup DNA: Highly self-motivated, proactive, and thrive working independently in a demanding, fast-paced startup environment. You possess a positive "can-do" attitude and are eager to wear many hats, seamlessly assisting sales and marketing teams across a variety of dynamic activities.
California Pay Range
$25 - $35 USD
Equal Opportunity
Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at info@harbingermotors.com.
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Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
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