Strategic Finance Intern

Job description

About the role: Join the employer’s FP&A team to support the forecasting, budgeting, and analysis used by leadership for decision‑making. You will own defined pieces end‑to‑end with senior review. Responsibilities: revenue forecasting; maintain inputs to the monthly rolling forecast and flag divergences; build a first‑principles scenario analysis and present it; translate forecast outputs into a one‑page summary for non‑finance leaders; collect and consolidate budget inputs from business units; prepare monthly variance analysis with explanations of the top three drivers; map a cost category and propose at least one quantified saving; test AI‑enabled tools to automate parts of the FP&A workflow and document outcomes; own the commercial deals tracker, reconcile with Sales and flag risky deals; prepare assigned sections of the monthly management report; conduct unit economics or profitability analysis for a product or client segment; research a market the employer is evaluating and present a recommendation; build inputs and test scenarios for pricing models.

Requirements

• Final‑year student or graduate within the last 12 months in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics or another quantitative field
• strong Excel or Google Sheets and ability to build a driver‑based model from a blank sheet
• evidence of building an analytical item on own initiative such as a model, investment pitch, case competition or research project
• clear writing and ability to explain what a number means and why it moved in plain language
• close the loop without being chased
• genuine curiosity about payments, open banking or fintech
• advantageous: prior internship in FP&A, corporate finance, banking, consulting or a startup
• SQL or Python
• progress toward CFA or ACCA

Skills