Internship at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, USA

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is dedicated to advancing human potential and promoting equal opportunity through technology, grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work. They are looking for bold ideas — regardless of structure and stage — and help them scale by pairing world-class engineers with subject matter experts to build tools that accelerate the pace of social progress.

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team is a small high energy team providing finance partnership to leaders across all initiatives and functions. They provide analysis to support strategic decisions, conduct financial reviews of a wide range of business issues, and manage financial processes such as planning, forecasting, reporting and measuring initiatives’ performance.

Responsibilities

• Assist with financial planning processes related to headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Partner with initiative teams to build measurement metrics for potential technologies, projects, grants, or investments to help drive decisioning around prioritization, go-to-market planning and/or resourcing level
• Help build-out robust financial planning processes and tools, as well as identify and drive new relevant company-level metrics
• Participate in cross functional company task forces on various projects including system implementation, monthly operating reviews, and annual result reporting

Benefits

• Opportunity for advancing potential and promoting equal opportunity through world-class engineering, grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work
• Opportunity to assist with financial planning processes related to headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Partner with initiative teams to build measurement metrics for potential technologies, projects, grants, or investments to help drive decisions around prioritization, go-to-market planning and/or resourcing level
• Opportunity to build-out robust financial planning processes and tools, as well as identify and drive new relevant company-level metrics
• Participate in cross-functional company task forces on various projects including system implementation, monthly operating reviews, and annual result reporting

Eligibility

• Actively seeks a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups — women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, and people from low-income families
• A highly motivated student with exceptional analytical skills are encouraged
• Pursuing an undergraduate degree; major or concentration in Finance, Accounting, or related field preferred
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical skills
• Attention to detail and follow-through
• Ability to work independently and demonstrated judgment to know when to ask for help
• Ability to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment; no egos
• Comfort with ambiguity in a rapidly changing environment
• Technologically proficient, particularly with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel

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Deadline: Ongoing