Corporate FP&A Intern

DigitalOcean•San Francisco, CA

3d•Remote

About The Position

This internship offers a front-row seat to the financial and operational mechanics of a global, remote-first technology organization, allowing you to help shape how we invest in our most valuable asset—our people. By bridging the gap between workforce data systems and financial strategy, the work you do here will directly optimize our corporate planning ecosystem and lay the groundwork for a highly impactful career. We are looking for an analytical, detail-oriented data enthusiast to support our data integration and forecasting pipelines. Reporting to the FP&A / Workforce Planning Manager, you will be a key player in ensuring data integrity, tracking resource allocations, and delivering actionable insights to stakeholders across the company.

Requirements

Experience with corporate finance concepts, including a baseline understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or resource allocation.
A deep understanding of data systems and data models, ideally with exposure to or an interest in enterprise tools like Workday and Adaptive Planning.
Advanced proficiency in constructing analytical worksheets, utilizing intermediate to advanced Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel functions to audit and manipulate large datasets seamlessly.
Excellent organizational and communication skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, rigorous environment while building trust across functional lines.
A desire to learn, an appetite for feedback, and a "leave it better than you found it" attitude.

Responsibilities

Support monthly, quarterly, and annual workforce planning activities, including budgeting and forecasting of payroll and employee-related expenses, in order to deliver highly accurate operational spending baselines for corporate leadership.
Maintain the employee roster and position planning data models used for financial forecasting in order to provide corporate stakeholders with a dependable and structured headcount baseline.
Assist in analyzing budget-to-actual variances related to salaries, bonuses, benefits, equity compensation, and other workforce expenses in order to protect fiscal health and identify systemic spending trends.
Monitor, maintain, and validate data integrations between Workday and Adaptive Planning in order to safeguard data quality, resolve system exceptions, and ensure forecasting precision across internal systems.
Perform data quality audits and structural reconciliations of employee, organizational, and compensation records in order to eliminate reporting discrepancies and guarantee platform integrity.
Create and maintain reports, dashboards, and data models using Google Sheets and Adaptive Planning in order to provide Finance and HR stakeholders with real-time, actionable business intelligence.
Partner cross-functionally with Finance, HR, and People Analytics teams to gather requirements and document workflows in order to improve process automation and functional efficiency.