Corporate Finance & Accounting, IT Finance Strategic Initiatives Internship

The Standard • Portland, OR

1d • Remote

About The Position

This internship opportunity is part of The Standard's IT Finance Strategic Initiatives team, supporting the recent acquisition of American Health from Allstate. The intern will leverage the complex financial structure of American Health (AH) IT to establish a streamlined, consistent, and repeatable process scalable across all of IT Finance and Analytics. This will be supported by a standardized budgeting and forecasting template that integrates actuals reporting from Workday and forecasting uploads into Apptio. If time permits, there is an additional opportunity to develop a standardized, repeatable reporting and forecasting process for Azure Cloud for American Health IT spend. The Standard is built on a genuine desire to make a difference, a customer-first mindset, and a focus on building strong teams, upholding financial stability while investing in innovative technologies. The company fosters a high-performance culture centered on operational excellence.

Requirements

• Undergrad or graduate student studying in the areas of Finance, Accounting or Economics
• Experience and/or exposure IT financial management practices such as budgeting, forecasting, cost allocations, and operational performance analysis
• Advanced level proficiency in Excel required
• Strong project ownership and organizational skills: self-directed and capable of managing collaboratively without formal authority to achieve results through others; express ideas clearly and persuasively in oral, written, and presentation forms

Nice To Haves

• Data integration and Power BI experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Support the monthly actuals review, reconciliation and full year forecast for the American Health IT financials through various, large data extracts from core financial systems (Workday, Apptio)
• Operationalize loading and reviewing of forecasting, budget, and actuals data in Apptio IT Planning
• Develop a standardized reporting and forecasting template, with integrated load file, optimized for both finance and non-finance end users
• Ensure scalability of new reporting and forecasting template through tight partnership with the broader IT Finance and Analytics team
• Establish and document a process, in partnership with the TBM Analytics team, to validate financials from Workday tie to Apptio for AH Financials
• Opportunity for secondary deliverable to develop forecasting process for Azure cloud spend if time allows

Benefits

• Real-world experiences and meaningful projects that support your career goals provided by a supportive and responsive management team eager to help with skills development
• Opportunities to build relationships and broaden industry knowledge through virtual networking with leaders and team members across the company
• Three days of paid time off and paid company holidays during your internship period
• A virtual first day orientation and the equipment necessary (e.g., laptop, monitors, headset) for a successful internship experience

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees