Summer Intern - Finance, Accounting, & Tax
Digital Realty Trust
Position Title: Summer Intern – Finance, Accounting, or Tax
Location: Dallas, TX; Austin, TX; Boston, MA
Your role
We are seeking a highly motivated intern to join Digital Realty’s Finance, Accounting, or Tax teams for the summer (~10 weeks). In this role, you will support one of these teams and contribute to meaningful, hands-on work that supports the company’s financial reporting, compliance, planning, and decision-making activities within a global organization.
Digital Realty’s Finance, Accounting, and Tax functions play a critical role in supporting financial reporting and compliance requirements, strategic planning, capital structure and financing activities, and the delivery of timely, accurate insights that inform business decisions across the enterprise.
What You’ll Do
Responsibilities will vary based on your assigned team and area of focus. You will support one of Digital Realty’s Finance, Accounting, or Tax teams and contribute to meaningful, hands-on work aligned to your discipline.
Finance
- Support monthly financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Assist with preparation of quarterly board materials and earnings support documentation
- Support financial statement analysis, KPI reporting, and business performance insights
- Assist with capital planning, financing analysis, and transaction-related projects
Accounting
- Support the monthly and quarterly close process, including reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation
- Assist with financial statement preparation and internal reporting in accordance with company policies and GAAP
- Support accounting processes and internal controls, including documentation and review of supporting schedules
- Participate in audit preparation activities and respond to information requests under supervision
Tax
- Support tax reporting, compliance, and provision-related activities, including preparation or review of supporting workpapers
- Assist with tax-related research and documentation, including understanding how tax laws and regulations apply to the business
- Support analysis of tax considerations related to transactions and operations across multiple jurisdictions
- Assist with quarterly close activities and SEC-related tax documentation
What you’ll need
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Tax, or a related field
- For Accounting or Tax-focused roles: intent to be CPA-eligible upon degree completion is preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Ability to read and understand basic financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, trial balance)
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Clear verbal and written communication skills
- Curiosity, initiative, and comfort working in a dynamic environment
- Willingness to seek guidance, ask questions, and incorporate feedback
A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.