Strategic Finance Intern
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Lucid Software is a leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration, aiming to help teams visualize and build the future by transforming ideas into reality. The company’s products, business, and workplace culture have garnered numerous awards, including being named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and recognized as a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology. Lucid operates as a hybrid workplace, offering employees the flexibility to work remotely, from one of their offices, or a combination, depending on the role and team requirements. Lucid adheres to core values such as teamwork over ego, innovation in everything we do, individual empowerment, initiative, and ownership, and passion and excellence in every area. The company values diverse perspectives and is committed to fostering an environment that is respectful and inclusive for everyone. Lucid is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a culture that honors and supports varying backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives.
Job Description
Job Title: Strategic Finance Intern
Department/Team: Strategic Finance (FP&A) team
Job Summary: This is an exciting opportunity for a Strategic Finance Intern to join Lucid Software’s Strategic Finance (FP&A) team. The position involves a wide range of projects, including strategic analysis to support Lucid’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), financial modeling, variance reporting, and various ad-hoc assignments. The intern will also be instrumental in initiatives aimed at improving existing FP&A processes through automation, documentation, and streamlining deliverables to align with best practices. The ideal candidate will possess excellent analytical abilities, strong financial modeling skills, a solid grasp of finance and accounting concepts, and a proactive desire to find solutions.
Type: Part-time internship
Duration: The internship is scheduled to begin in late August and continue throughout the school year.
Hours: Interns are expected to work approximately 20–25 hours per week, with flexible scheduling to accommodate academic commitments.
Responsibilities:
• Drive improvement of financial reporting and forecasting processes in coordination with finance team members, the accounting team, and other departments.
• Produce analysis and tracking of strategic initiatives and key company metrics, including the development of supporting models and expected outcomes.
• Communicate financial and accounting information and trends to the management team to ensure that real-time business decisions can be made based on sound financial data.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis as required.
Requirements:
• Completing a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Interested and excited to work in a high-growth tech/software SaaS company.
• Experience in working collaboratively with a team, coupled with strong communication skills.
• Proactive, self-starter, quick learner, and highly motivated.
• Detail-oriented and organized.
• Ability to scope projects and execute on deliverables, communicating effectively throughout the process.
• Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides.
• A bias towards finding solutions versus dismissing ideas.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficiency in SQL or other programming languages is a plus.
