Internship – Compliance (Year-Round)
Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This is a year-round compliance internship in Milwaukee. What interests you about compliance work?
What they are checking: Whether they are genuinely interested in compliance work, rather than simply taking whichever internship happened to be available.
How do you stay accurate on a repetitive checking task?
What they are checking: Whether they have practical habits for staying accurate on repetitive checks, because routine controls only work when done carefully.
You'd assist with compliance reviews of business units. How would you prepare for a review of a business you know nothing about?
What they are checking: Whether they would learn how a business works before reviewing it, so their findings are fair and well informed.
What do you want to be able to do by the end of this internship, and where would you most need help?
What they are checking: Whether they have a concrete learning goal and feel comfortable asking for help, which shapes how much an intern gains.
What would you do
You think something looks wrong but you're not sure. Do you escalate or check further first?
What they are checking: Whether they know to escalate doubts promptly, since compliance interns often hesitate when they should simply raise the concern.
Compliance work means seeing information about clients and employees. What does that mean for how you talk about your job?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that what they see in compliance stays private, even with friends and family outside work.
This internship is hybrid, three days a week in the downtown Milwaukee office and two remote, full time in the summer. Does that fit your schedule?
What they are checking: Whether the hybrid schedule and full-time summer hours genuinely fit their plans, so there are no conflicts once they start.
About the work
The posting names conducting preliminary investigation on potential watch list matches using search tools, databases and court records. Walk me through how you'd check whether a match is genuine.
What they are checking: Whether they can verify a watch list match methodically using several sources, rather than guessing from a similar name.
You'd gather information on client activity that may be suspicious and escalate it. What would make you flag something?
What they are checking: Whether they can recognize the patterns that make client activity worth flagging, which is the core instinct of compliance work.
You'd create and maintain Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint training materials. What's the most useful thing you've built in either?
What they are checking: Whether they have built something genuinely useful in Excel or PowerPoint, since both tools are named requirements here.
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