Corporate Finance & Accounting, IT Finance Strategic Initiatives Internship

The Standard • Portland, OR

3d • $21 - $24

About The Position

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with The Standard. A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture focused on operational excellence thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference? This internship opportunity is part of the IT Finance Strategic Initiatives team supporting the recent acquisition of American Health from Allstate. Using the complex financial structure of the American Health (AH) IT you will help establish a streamlined, consistent and repeatable process that is scalable across all of IT Finance and Analytics, supported by a standardized budgeting and forecasting template that bridges reporting actuals from Workday and forecasting uploads into Apptio. Additional opportunity to build a standardized, repeatable reporting and forecasting process for Azure Cloud for American Health IT spend if internship time allows.

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, data integration and Power BI experience a plus
• 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

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed