Project Management Intern (Platform & Infrastructure)

Apex Fintech Solutions • Austin, TX

38d • Hybrid

About The Position

Start your career by joining a thriving, successful team enabling innovation within the financial services industry. Apex is seeking a Project Management Intern to join the Platform & Infrastructure organization. As a member of this team, you'll have a large impact on the firm by adding your project management experience to our organization and employees, in a rapidly growing environment. This specific role is focused on cloud cost management and interpreting conclusions via data analysis to drive collaboration between the platform & infra team and engineering/product, operations and finance. To be considered, you must be able to commit to a 10-week hybrid internship and work 40 hours per week during our summer program Have you been waiting on the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the fintech industry? Now's your chance.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a BA, BS, MS, PhD degree in Management Informatics & Systems (MIS), Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field
• Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Financial services background is a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management
• Data Analysis
• Either previous knowledge in financial markets or a strong interest in learning

Responsibilities

• Cloud cost management- focus on visibility, accountability on what service teams spend, both within the platform & infrastructure team as well as across engineering/product teams
• Partnering with our engineering and Product teams to work on efficiencies on our Tech stack
• Financial tracking- general, actual, budgeting, variance analysis, vendor licenses/agreements, Data center investment management (CapEx), software capitalization
• COGS KPI work, understanding which cost are tied to which activities: custody of assets vs trading activities, understanding how to allocate spend connected to multiple activities and across Classic and Ascend.
• Develop strategic narratives for leadership
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure our platform is built and tested to handle oncoming capacity, aligning inputs from commercial for net new growth and client experience for classic migration to plot expected growth against tested limits and determine Time to Live

Benefits

• We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match.
• We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits.
• At AFS, we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees