Fintech Intern

Who we are

Naboo helps companies plan unforgettable corporate events: offsites, retreats, conferences, team-buildings and parties. Clients book through our platform and our event experts, and we work with 80,000+ venues and service providers worldwide. Founded in Paris and backed by Lightspeed (Series B), we now have teams in France, Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, Spain and Singapore.

Our Americas business is growing fast. Behind every event there’s money moving between clients, venues, caterers and DMCs, often across borders, currencies and tax regimes. Making those flows fast, accurate and secure is the Fintech team’s job, and that’s where you come in.

The role

You’ll join the Fintech team and run payment operations for our Canadian and US entities, as well as our Latin American flows. This isn’t a “watch and learn” internship: you’ll have real ownership from week one, and the processes you improve will be used by the whole company. You’ll be the go-to finance contact for our clients’ accounts payable teams, venues and suppliers in the Americas. Getting the numbers right matters as much as how you handle the people behind them.

You’ll report to Pierre, our Fintech team lead, and work closely with our Fintech Director in Paris

What you’ll do

As part of the Fintech team, you’ll own Naboo’s payment flows across the Americas, from a partner’s request all the way to proof of payment.

Partner payments :

• Handle payment requests from venues and suppliers, both before the event (deposits to secure a date) and after it (final invoices, follow-ups).
• Check every file before payment: client funds received, amounts and commission in the back office, consistency with the signed quote.
• Prioritize urgent cases (risk of cancellation) and prepare payments for sign-off by the approvers.
• Follow payments through to completion and share proof of payment with internal teams and partners.

Payment methods and bank details :

• Issue and manage virtual cards (hotels, travel, supplier payment links) and resolve card issues.
• Register and update partner bank details on the right platform (Pennylane, Airwallex), including Canada-specific methods (EFT, Interac).
• Apply anti-fraud checks to any change in bank details.

Refunds and payment errors :

• Calculate and prepare client and partner refunds.
• Fix payment errors (wrong account, duplicate payment) and coordinate fund recovery.

Invoice carrying :

• Manage invoice-carrying deals in the Americas, where Naboo acts as a payment intermediary between clients and their suppliers.
• Enforce the rules specific to these deals (commission, service fees, paying only once client funds are received) and keep the back office up to date.
• Handle related requests: quote adjustments and confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, disputes, and document requests.

Continuous improvement :

• Spot repetitive tasks and help automate them with our internal tools (Slack bots, HubSpot ticketing, AI).
• Work daily with Event Managers, the Paris finance team and partners.

By the end of your internship, you’ll be able to :

• Run the full payment cycle of a region on your own, from partner request to reconciliation.
• Read any North American invoice with confidence (GST, HST, QST, US sales tax, FX) and know the key checks for Latin American invoices.
• Show at least one process you automated or redesigned.

Who we’re looking for

• You’re a Bachelor’s or Master’s student in business, finance, economics or engineering, and can do this internship as part of your program (internship agreement with your school). You must be eligible to work in Canada for the internship (Canadian citizen or permanent resident, co-op work permit, or IEC International Co-op permit for students enrolled abroad).
• A first experience in finance operations, treasury, audit or accounting (internship, part-time job) is a plus.
• A first client-facing experience (customer success, hospitality, sales, student association) is a real plus.
• Working with US and Latin American clients and partners requires professional English, written and spoken.
• French is an asset to work with our Montreal and Paris teams, and Spanish is a plus for LatAm

Technical skills you’ll need

• Excel / Google Sheets: you’re at ease with lookups, pivot tables and cleaning messy data
• Accounting basics: you know what an invoice, a credit note, a receivable and a payable are, and how a transaction flows from quote to payment
• Sales tax and VAT logic: you understand how indirect taxes work on an invoice. We’ll teach you the provincial details (GST, HST, QST)
• Number sense: you’re comfortable with multi-currency amounts, FX conversions and reconciling two figures that should match
• Tool savviness: you pick up new software quickly (CRM, back-office, payment platforms) and you’re curious about using AI tools to work faster

Personal skills that make the difference

• Client sense: you know that behind every payment there’s a venue waiting for its deposit or a client whose event is at stake. You’re responsive, warm and clear, you explain a finance issue simply to an Event Manager, a client’s accounts payable team or a venue owner, and you know when a call works better than an email
• Ownership: you treat the region as yours. You follow topics through to the end and don’t wait to be told what to do next
• Rigor: a wrong tax rate or a missing number doesn’t get past you, and you double-check before you send
• Calm under pressure: clients and teams sometimes need answers fast, so you stay organized, prioritize and keep a cool head
• Remote collaboration: part of your team is in Paris, and you’re comfortable working async across time zones and documenting what you do
• Problem-solving mindset: when a process is slow or broken, your first reflex is to ask how to fix it for good
• Discretion: you handle client, payment and banking data with care

Recruitment process

• Discovery call with the Fintech team lead (30 min, video)
• Interview and short case study with the Fintech Director (45 min, video): a payment file to check in Excel, and a reply to an upset venue waiting for its deposit
• On-site meeting at our Montreal office to meet the team (90 min)