Read from 13 live postings
Getting hired in Accounting & Finance
Accounting, finance, audit, tax, actuarial science and economics students.
Toughest gate seen
CGPA 3.50 and 5 As at SPM
Deloitte
Placement length
8–12 weeks
What the better employers ask for
Internship allowance
RM 1,000–2,000
Per month, as published
Postings read
13
In this field, read in full
Mid-tier firms pay noticeably better than the Big Four, which mostly publish no allowance at all.
Quick answers
What do employers require for a Accounting & Finance internship in Malaysia?
We read 13 Malaysian Accounting & Finance postings in full on 4 August 2026. Toughest gate seen: CGPA 3.50 and 5 As at SPM (Deloitte). Placement length: 8–12 weeks (what the better employers ask for). The hardest academic gate in the whole dataset sits here, and part of it is fixed before you enrol. If Big Four audit is the goal, SPM results are already part of the application. But the door matters as much as the firm: Deloitte's audit internship demands CGPA 3.50 and five SPM As, while the same firm's tax internship publishes no CGPA at all.
How much does a Accounting & Finance internship pay in Malaysia?
Employers in our sample (13 postings, 4 August 2026) published internship allowances of RM 1,000–2,000 a month. Mid-tier firms pay noticeably better than the Big Four, which mostly publish no allowance at all.
What do Accounting & Finance employers accept as proof you can do the work?
Grades and a leadership record. This is the field where extra-curricular activities are scored explicitly, and where SPM results still count years after you sat them. Named in the postings: Excel, SAP, Power BI, Tax software and Ariba.
What counts as proof here
Grades and a leadership record. This is the field where extra-curricular activities are scored explicitly, and where SPM results still count years after you sat them.
Named in the postings
These are the tools and standards employers wrote into the requirements block for this field, not a general recommendation.
The trap in this field
The hardest academic gate in the whole dataset sits here, and part of it is fixed before you enrol. If Big Four audit is the goal, SPM results are already part of the application. But the door matters as much as the firm: Deloitte's audit internship demands CGPA 3.50 and five SPM As, while the same firm's tax internship publishes no CGPA at all.
Who was hiring
Deloitte, EY, PwC, AIA, Bosch, Teleport, YYC & Co, E-Genting, Carlsberg
Employers named across the 13 postings read for this field. Postings expire; the names indicate who recruits at this level, not what is open today.
Another field
Drawn from 245 Malaysian postings read in full on 4 August 2026. The market-wide patterns are on the main page: What Malaysian employers actually ask a student for