Financial Analyst Intern, Corporate Strategy
Position Details:
The Financial Analyst works closely with Finance and the Business Unit leads to drive the company’s investment priorities. The Financial Analyst is responsible for gathering assumptions, performing financial analysis and creating materials to support and track CSG’s major investment decisions. The Financial Analyst role, within CSG’s Corporate Strategy group, will have exposure across functional groups and senior management.
The role will require strong business analytics, strategic thinking, problem solving, and executive communications. There will be significant hands-on work requiring detailed market, industry and product analysis, business case and financial modeling, information synthesis, and preparation and presentation of report material.
Essential Job Functions
The majority of time will be spent developing and managing business cases to support major strategic investments.
Primary Responsibilities will include:
Develop and maintain complex financial models to support management decisions
Perform forecasting, valuation and scenario analysis
Conduct research, cost studies and benchmarking to support financial and operational assumptions
Assist members of the finance team and other functional teams in developing processes and policies for new business initiatives
Monitor business performance against business case assumptions
Prepare materials for presentations for senior management and other stakeholders as needed
Work cross-functionally across business units
Education
Bachelor Degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience
MBA or other business qualification preferred
Experience
Microsoft Office
Strong financial modeling skills
Experience working across different geographies and cultures
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Sharp mind with strong analytical and numeric skills, proficient in financial modeling and analysis
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to establish and maintain collaborative work relationships within the Corporate Strategy team, the broader company including senior executives, as well as with external business partners
Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and complete multiple projects in a timely manner
Self-starter with desire to learn
Adept in standard office software tools, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
Strong presentation and report-writing skills
Good understanding of corporate finance
Ability to think globally in relation to the Company’s strategic plan
Ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language in a business environment