Finance Internship

About the Role

Pattern is seeking a driven Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Intern for an immersive, real-world finance experience at a fast-growing company. Working alongside full-time FP&A Analysts and supervised by the FP&A Manager, you will transform financial and operational data into forecasts, models, and reporting to aid leadership decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with preparing and distributing financial analysis and reporting packages, and analyze performance versus budget and forecast.
• Collaborate with Financial Analysts to prepare sensitivity analyses on the impact to revenue, expenses, and profitability by modeling changes in key variables.
• Develop detailed financial forecasts of financial statements, incorporating key financial and operational metrics.
• Pull, clean, and reconcile financial and operational data from multiple sources, ensuring accuracy in models and reports.
• Perform variance analysis, investigate drivers behind numbers, and summarize findings for the FP&A team.
• Support month-end, quarterly, and annual budgeting and forecasting cycles with updates to models and supporting schedules.
• Build and refine reporting and dashboards that track key financial and operational metrics, and identify opportunities for making recurring reports more scalable and automated.
• Document model assumptions, methodologies, and processes for review and reuse.
• Own a project or analysis during the internship and present findings and recommendations to the FP&A team.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Junior or Senior working toward a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Foundational knowledge of accounting and finance principles, including the three financial statements and their interconnections.
• Analytical and financial modeling skills preferred.
• Confident in Excel, VBA, MS Office, and Google Sheets.
• Familiarity with Cloud-based planning systems, NetSuite and Tableau preferred.
• Knowledge of working with large amounts of data to develop scalable financial reporting solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a habit of questioning data and verifying work.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy when working with large volumes of financial data.
• Outstanding communication and organization abilities, including explaining financial concepts clearly to non-finance teammates and managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential financial information with honesty and integrity.
• Demonstrated collaboration, receptiveness to feedback, and eagerness to learn.

Qualifications

• Follow through with all assignments in a timely manner.
• Give 100% to all tasks and projects.
• Take full ownership of projects and follow through to completion.
• Produce accurate, clearly documented, and trusted models and reports.
• Explain what is driving results and recommend clear next steps.
• Identify issues and risks early and bring forward solutions.
• Seek ways to automate or simplify recurring analyses and manual work.
• Ask thoughtful questions, seek out feedback, and apply it quickly.

Company Culture

• Game Changers: Open-minded, innovative, and improvement-focused.
• Data Fanatics: Seek data-driven understanding, draw unbiased conclusions, and track solution effects.
• Partner Obsessed: Clear communication, active listening, prioritizing partner needs, and creating personable experiences.
• Team of Doers: Uplifting, initiative-taking, supportive, and accountable.