Operations Rotational Intern

GreatAmerica Financial ServicesCedar Rapids, IA

About The Position

The Operations Rotational Summer Internship is designed to provide college students with broad exposure to GreatAmerica’s operational career paths through hands-on experience across key functions that support the customer and transaction lifecycle. Interns will rotate through Portfolio Management, Account Support, Sales Support, and Documentation to gain a practical understanding of how these teams work together to serve customers, support transactions, and drive operational excellence. This internship is ideal for students who are curious, relationship-oriented, adaptable, and interested in learning how different operational teams contribute to a strong customer experience and efficient business processes.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business, finance, management, communications, supply chain, operations, or a related field.
  • Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook

Nice To Haves

  • Juniors are preferred
  • Prior customer service, office, administrative, leadership, or project experience is helpful but not required.
  • Eager to learn, comfortable asking questions, and excited to build a broad understanding of business operations.
  • Interest in business operations, customer service, finance, leasing, process improvement, or relationship management.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn across multiple functional areas.
  • Ability to adapt to changing assignments, teams, and priorities.
  • Attention to detail and commitment to quality work.
  • A collaborative mindset and desire to build relationships across teams.
  • Accountability, follow-through, and ownership of assigned work.
  • Comfort working independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in a structured summer experience that includes onboarding, training, job shadowing, functional rotations, meaningful daily work, team meetings, and mini-projects.
  • Gain exposure to Portfolio Management: Learn about portfolio monitoring, risk concepts, and business analysis.
  • Gain exposure to Account Support: Support customer service activities and gain exposure to relationship management.
  • Gain exposure to Sales Support: Learn how teams support customer communication, transaction support, and program execution.
  • Gain exposure to Documentation: Gain exposure to contract accuracy, compliance, and funding preparation.
  • Build an understanding of the end-to-end customer and transaction lifecycle.
  • Shadow team members and leaders across multiple Operations functions.
  • Contribute to meaningful projects and daily work that support business needs.
  • Strengthen communication skills through frequent transitions, stakeholder interactions, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Develop enterprise thinking by seeing how operational teams connect rather than working in functional silos.
  • Participate in a capstone project focused on improving the customer experience and operational efficiency across the transaction lifecycle.
  • Work with fellow interns to explore the question: “How can we improve the customer experience and operational efficiency across the transaction lifecycle?”
  • Interview stakeholders, analyze processes, identify opportunities, and present recommendations to Operations Leadership.
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