Finance Intern

Job Description

Finance Intern | ALKU

The Tone:
This is an internship role at ALKU, located in Andover, MA, with a hybrid work model. ALKU is a specialized consulting and staffing firm that connects exceptional talent with organizations across Technology, Life Sciences, Healthcare IT, and Government. This role is crucial for supporting the finance and revenue teams, providing essential data, reporting, and analysis that drives informed decisions and contributes to the company’s growth as an organization consistently voted a Best Place to Work for the past decade.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship / Early Career
• Location: Hybrid, Andover, MA
• Pay: $17 hourly
• Team: Finance team
• Mission: This intern will provide essential financial data compilation, analysis, and reporting to support leadership decisions and revenue growth across ALKU’s business lines.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Tableau, internal systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Reporting: Prepare weekly financial reports for leadership and revenue teams.
• Analysis: Support the creation of spread summaries and year-over-year performance analyses across business lines.
• Data Management: Consolidate and organize data from various internal systems into clean, digestible formats.
• Support: Assist with data validation, reconciliation, and month-end close reporting to ensure accuracy.
• Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally with accounting, sales, and recruiting teams to gather and clarify necessary financial data.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently pursuing a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field. This is an entry-level internship position.
• Experience: Strong Excel skills, including proficiency with pivot tables, formulas, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP. Comfortable working with large data sets and spotting discrepancies.
• Skills: Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time-management abilities, clear written and verbal communication skills, ability to prioritize and meet multiple deadlines, and a self-starter who takes initiative.
• Bonus: Prior internship or coursework experience in financial reporting or analytics; familiarity with Tableau.