Corporate Internal Audit Intern (Six Flags Great Adventure) 2025

If you're looking for an internship to work exclusively on Sarbanes Oxley and Operational audits in an amusement park, using the same cloud audit program used by our national CPA firm, this is the one!

And the best part is, we're also very interested in college Sophomores or above applying too! 

Our summer Corporate Internal Audit internship at Six Flags Great Adventure will give you critical knowledge for your future career, daily exposure and reporting to all levels of our company management, to cause your future career interviewers to want to hear much more about your work accomplishments while you were here!

To say it another way, this is NOT an internship where you're just going to change light bulbs all summer long.  Our summer intern fills a highly visible audit staff position for our large, publicly held company, Six Flags Entertainment Company (www.sixflags.com). This position offers the chance to acquire an exceptional amount of audit, accounting, and business experience, while working in a fun and professional environment!

Our interns actually become our fulltime staff auditors during the summer, so the intern and our corporate audit managers are the only people working on our audits! If you want to learn more about this, we'd love to consider interviewing you! 

Please note that applicants may be hired as resumes are received, so please send your resume as soon as possible!  

Here's a short description of a recent satisfied intern from the past "I am also so thankful the company embraced the interns in such a welcoming way, and we never felt our work to be stereotypical busy work. I thought I would only deal with numbers, but to my surprise and pleasure, I was able to go out into the field and actually do audits myself each day! I came in every day knowing I was making a valuable contribution to this business and felt incredibly fulfilled while doing it!"

Responsibilities:

Audit staff interns perform all of our summer audits used by our external CPA firm, under the direction and mentorship of a Corporate Internal Audit Manager. You'll send the results of these audits to each park's GM and Directors, as well as other corporate executives! 

• Facilitate walkthroughs of processes and key controls mapped to financial statements.
• Test the design and operating effectiveness of Sarbanes-Oxley controls mapped to accounts payable, revenue, inventory, operating expenses, and payroll.
• Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of controls to ensure the safeguarding of assets.
• Design and perform rounding audits, which observe of our property’s physical environment.
• Utilize data analytics tools and techniques to distill insights from large datasets.
• Deliver audit conclusions to control owners and management. Gather root cause and remediation documentation and retain in GRC software.
• In our cloud hosted GRC software used by our Big 4 CPA firm, upload audit evidence and document conclusions of operating effectiveness testing.
• Create process flow diagrams of the processes, risks, and key controls of the labor cycle.
• Test processes and controls around certification and safety in our functional operating segments, including rides, aquatics, food and beverage, security, and workforce management.
• Assignments may include our Sarbanes Oxley audits.
• After completing each audit, you’ll write a conclusion and any necessary recommendations for improvements to the controls and procedures.

Qualifications:

• No prior audit experience is necessary, as training and guidance will be provided during the internship.
• Candidates must be highly motivated and able to work professionally with supervision or not.
• Excellent communication skills are a plus, as you’ll interact with managers on a regular daily basis.
• Auditors should be willing to work approximately 40 hours per week over 5 days (with at least one weekend day), as daily schedules will vary in terms of the starting hour.
• Candidates should be in their sophomore year or above at this point, have a G.P.A. of 3.00 or higher, and have completed one accounting course (or are taking one) before applying.

This Internal Audit internship is available at these Six Flags amusement parks in Charlotte, NC (Carowinds), New Braunfels, TX (Schlitterbahn), Buena Park, CA (Knott’s Berry Farm), Vaughn, Ontario (Canada’s Wonderland), Sandusky, OH (Cedar Point), Mason, OH (Kings Island), Valencia, CA (Magic Mountain), Arlington, TX (Over Texas), Jackson Township, NJ (Great Adventure), Lake County, IL (Great America), San Antonio, TX (Fiesta Texas), and Austell, GA (Over Georgia).  If interested in another park than the one posted and already have a permanent place to live near there, please let us know.

Since you’ll be employed at one of the state's finest amusement parks, you’ll be able to ride the amusement and water park attractions for free and earn eight free tickets to the park based on hours worked. Cedar Point has employee housing for Internal Audit interns (a full-scale apartment) if your permanent residence is over 30 miles from that park. Other parks do not have employee housing, so we're suggesting a permanent residence or with a relative/friend within 60 minutes of that park.