2027 Summer Intern, Corporate Development

Job Title: 2027 Summer Intern, Corporate Development

Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid: 2x per week)

Duration: 10-week full-time internship (June - August)

About the Role

The Corporate Development team leads ICF’s mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic investments. This internship is intended for a highly motivated student with strong analytical, research, and communication skills. The team is also looking for an intern comfortable using AI tools responsibly to identify practical applications within Corporate Development projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Research target companies, competitors, and market segments; prepare company profiles, screening summaries, market maps, and market overviews.
• Support due diligence by tracking requests, organizing materials, summarizing findings, and helping the deal team identify key issues and follow-up items.
• Prepare and update presentation materials for internal deal reviews, leadership updates, and strategic discussions.
• Assist with pipeline tracking, data organization, comparable company research, and other ad hoc analyses.
• Use approved AI tools, where appropriate, to improve the efficiency of research, summarization, data organization, and presentation development.
• Help identify practical AI use cases for the Corporate Development team.
• Support other internal projects of the Corporate Development team, including strategic initiatives where research, analytics, process improvement, or AI-enabled tools can add value.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• By start date, a minimum of 30 completed college-level credit hours in finance, accounting, economics, business analytics, data science, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Comfort with financial statements, basic corporate finance concepts, structured research, and data organization.
• Ability to use AI responsibly, including validating outputs, protecting confidential information, and applying sound judgment.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, highly organized, and comfortable handling confidential information.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize complex information.
• Curiosity, initiative, and willingness to learn new tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Completed bachelor’s degree and enrollment verification or 9 credit hours completed in a master’s degree program in finance, accounting, economics, business analytics, data science, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated interest in Corporate Development, M&A, strategy, finance, consulting, technology, or business transformation.
• Experience using AI tools for research, summarization, analysis, productivity, or workflow improvement.

What You'll Gain

• Exposure to end-to-end M&A execution at a public company.
• Mentorship from experienced deal professionals.
• A capstone project presented to the Corporate Development team at the end of the summer.

Pay Range

$0.00 - $77,869.00