Financial Steering Intern (FALL 2025)
A good student experience is never hands-off. We are dedicated to fostering a dynamic learning environment where students actively engage in practical experiences throughout their time with us. From the beginning, students are entrusted with specific responsibilities, ensuring they play a significant role in their learning journey. As valued team members, students are also encouraged to share and implement their own ideas, enhancing both their personal growth and the collective success of the team.
Support processes for both production control and financial steering to determine improvements and automation of data gathering, reporting, and cost efficiency tracking.
Create financial reports that will be used by the Body Shop management to make decisions in the planning and target setting process.
Participate in cross-functional discussions to gather data source information and determine automation opportunities for financial and headcount data.
Analyze financial data to look for trends, root causes, and propose measures for cost reduction.
Support with inner-year month end activities and long-range financial planning.
Analyze historical financial data to identify trends, bring transparency, and ultimately identify measures for improvement and cost reduction.
Create automated reporting tools in Power BI or similar systems to continuously track and bring transparency to key General Ledger budget categories as well as headcount, which can be used across the Body Shop and even shared to other areas of the plant.
Create forecast and target templates to prepare for the next inner-year forecast activity in the Body Shop and prepare for next year’s target setting.
Create Power BI reports to quickly show and report the financial trends in the Body Shop and provide the ability to quickly respond to negative trends.
Create Power BI reports or optimization to track headcount needs in a consistent manner across the Body Shop.
Work with other steering functions in the plant to identify common ways to report and steer the financials.
Focus on financial business, business related or production control discipline.
Good communication skills
Enhanced computer skills (MS Office Applications) with the willingness to learn new systems such as Power BI
Strong analytical skills and ability to manage large amounts of data including creating reports to provide trends and transparency
Possess a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (not just in major)
Have enrolled student status at an accredited four-year college or university in the United States.
Completed at least 30 credit hours at time of application.
Ability to work full-time on-site (40 hours / week).
Transfer students must have a GPA from current university.
MUST ATTACH A COPY OF UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
Complete and pass a substance abuse test before the work term.
THE WORK TERM DATES ARE August 11th – December 12th, 2025.
BMW Manufacturing Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of BMW MC to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
