Finance Undergraduate Summer Internship

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About American Express

From our high employee satisfaction ratings to our many workplace awards, American Express is consistently recognised as a great place to work by people around the world. We offer talented individuals challenging work with purpose by embracing both innovation and tradition. As our company has grown and evolved, sometimes reinventing our business outright, we have never strayed from the customer-service ethos and values on which the company was built- trust, security, integrity, quality, good citizenship, respect and customer commitment.

Why American Express

Talk to our people and you’ll find out what we’re really all about. Open, creative, risk-taking, collaborative and innovative are just some of the expressions you’ll hear. It’s our culture that makes American Express an outstanding place to work, and a big part of why we regularly win best workplace awards all over the world. If you’re ready to take on a challenge and make an impact, you owe it to yourself to launch or grow your career here.

Finance Undergraduate Summer Internship

Our Finance team is at the heart of all key business decisions in American Express. You will join our premier global network of change makers, discover how Finance goes beyond the numbers and shape the future of the business. You will diversify your skill set and gain exposure by working on high profile projects-analysing and simplifying complex data to identify areas of value and consult the business to drive more profitable decisions.

Our well-established Summer Internship Programme will provide high-performing students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in projects that have strategic, operational or financial significance to the company. Interns will have the opportunity to work on a challenging project, with an opportunity to learn about the culture and values of American Express, as well as network across regions and functions.

The Summer Internship Programme commences in June 2018 for 10 weeks. It consists of the following components:

• Introduction to American Express through an induction day and training sessions
• Meaningful projects which will have real business impact
• Regular Speaker Series with senior management
• Social and networking events
• Structured performance management process and regular feedback

What type of work can you expect to do in Finance at American Express?

• Develop relationships in a complex global matrix organization.
• Use American Express big data to identify market trends, key metrics, solve problems, and influence executive decision-making.
• Develop new data analytics and tools in order to drive scalable insights and business strategy.
• Provide decision support on investment strategies for products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.
• Work closely with Operational and Finance management and their teams to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the business and its evolving needs.

Do you have what it takes to build a career here?

• Analytical skills
  • Strong ability to turn data into actionable insights and draw conclusions
  • Impeccable commercial acumen with ability to see the bigger picture and effectively collaborate to help influence senior leadership
  • Eagerness to learn and use SQL to extract and manipulate data, or with other programming or scripting languages.
• Excellent quantitative, written, and presentation skills; innovative, organised and thorough
• Ability to build relationships across teams and effective networking skills

Educational requirements

• Currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree programme (any degree discipline) in your penultimate year of study
• A minimum of 320 UCAS points and a predicted 2:1 degree or international equivalent  

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