Summer Internship - Real Estate & Analytics
About The Position
The Real Estate Financial Systems and Analytics Intern will receive direct exposure to real estate operations, financial modeling, and system implementation at scale. The intern will work alongside senior leadership to help design and build approximately 50 operating budgets, while contributing to the transformation of how financial data is structured, analyzed, and utilized across the organization. The intern will work directly under the guidance of a senior finance leader with deep experience in enterprise budgeting and forecasting, financial systems implementation (ERP/EPM platforms), data architecture and analytics, and executive-level financial planning and reporting. Arrow Senior Living will provide direct mentorship from experienced finance leadership with expertise in financial systems, analytics, and enterprise transformation. The intern will gain hands-on experience in real estate financial modeling, exposure to senior housing operations, and involvement in a live system implementation. The experience will develop technical skills in financial analysis, data structuring, and systems, while also offering insight into executive-level strategy and decision-making. The intern will have opportunities to contribute meaningfully to real business challenges and receive ongoing feedback for professional growth.
Requirements
- Current undergraduate or graduate student in Real Estate, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Advanced Excel proficiency.
- Strong communication and problem-solving abilities.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to real estate or financial systems (Power BI, SQL) preferred.
- Familiarity with budgeting or forecasting preferred.
Responsibilities
- Assist in building and refining operating budget templates for independent living, assisted living, and memory care.
- Support creation of standardized assumptions across revenue, labor, and operating expenses.
- Help model occupancy, rate, and care fee scenarios across multiple communities.
- Analyze historical performance trends to inform projections.
- Build and maintain forecasting models tied to key business drivers, such as occupancy, rate growth, concessions, and labor.
- Identify variances and recommend data-driven adjustments.
- Participate in evaluation and selection of a new budgeting and forecasting tool.
- Assist with data mapping, validation, and migration into the new system.
- Support user testing (UAT) and workflow design.
- Work with leadership on initiatives tied to margin optimization, revenue growth, and performance tracking.
- Prepare summaries and insights for decision making.
- Actively contribute to development of operating budgets.
- Support live operating budget system implementation.
- Build financial models.
- Analyze data trends and collaborate with leadership to translate insights into actionable recommendations.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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