Finance Development Program Associate

Job Description

2027 Campus Full Time: Finance Development Program Associate | UL Solutions

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at UL Solutions, located in Northbrook, IL. UL Solutions is a global organization with thousands of employees, dedicated to making the world a safer, more secure, and sustainable place through science and truth. This Finance Development Program Associate position is crucial for cultivating future financial talent within the company, offering rotational assignments across various financial operations. The role supports UL’s commitment to innovation and positive change by developing associates for future leadership roles in finance.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Northbrook, IL
• Pay: $67000 yearly
• Team: This rotational program offers assignments within financial planning and analysis, general accounting, treasury, tax, shared services for order-to-cash or procure-to-pay, or operating businesses.
• Mission: To develop future financial leaders through rotational assignments and training, contributing to core financial functions and high-impact special projects.
• Tech Stack: MS Office suite (Excel, Word, Power Point)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analyze: Perform financial analyses to explain variances, develop business cases for investment projects, or assess the impact of business process changes.
• Plan: Participate in the development of budgets, forecasts, or strategic plans for various organizations.
• Report: Assist in the preparation of financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends, and perform account reconciliations.
• Improve: Work on projects that will improve efficiency, improve service levels, and lower the cost of operations for shared service functions like credit, billing, collections, cash applications, and accounts payable.
• Support: Assist with treasury activities including daily cash management and account reconciliations, and support special projects in cash management, investment management, and insurance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related major prior to the intended full-time start date.
• Experience: Be completing your final year of your undergraduate degree; demonstrated ability to gather, analyze, and interpret information from diverse sources; and a working knowledge of the fundamentals of accounting through education or internship experience.
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to use MS Office suite (Excel, Word, Power Point), strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, and a proven ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment as an ambitious and highly motivated self-starter who works well independently and collaboratively. Must have the indefinite right to work in the United States.
• Bonus: Experience working with business ERPs (Oracle, NetSuite, etc.) is a plus.