IT Finance & HR Planning Analyst Intern

FirstEnergy - Akron, OH

Full-time - Intern

Akron, OH

Utilities

About the position

FirstEnergy is a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers' lives brighter, the environment better, and our communities stronger. As a participant in the Co-op/Intern Professional Development Program, you will be cultivating professional skills and performing professional-level work. This internship is not just about sitting in meetings and shadowing; you will actively contribute and perform the same work as other FirstEnergy employees on your team. You will receive on-the-job training and challenging assignments, and you will be assigned a Supervisor, a Coach/Mentor, and a dedicated IT Intern Program Coordinator to help you maximize your learning and growth throughout your internship. The IT Finance and HR Planning Analyst Intern role is designed to help you learn the basic business practices for planning, maintaining, and analyzing IT financials. Key responsibilities include tracking month-end accruals and journals, assisting leadership with project budgets, preparing for short and long-term financial forecasts, coordinating resources to align labor hours, and maintaining employee staffing. You will also engage in business process understanding, application installation and configuration, project management, unit testing, and troubleshooting as part of high-quality support of our systems and related interfaces. Examples of possible job duties include supporting the planning of IT forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis reporting processes for the >$200M annual IT budget, utilizing various financial systems to extract and manipulate data to create meaningful financial reports, assisting with month-end financial reporting and variance analysis, and learning components of planning and reporting processes. You will also reinforce and support tasks associated with the cost collector lifecycle and learn accounting concepts such as accruals, journals, and amortizations.

Responsibilities

• Support planning of IT forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis reporting process for the >$200M annual IT budget
• Utilize various financial systems to extract and manipulate data to create meaningful financial reports
• Assist with month-end financial reporting and variance analysis
• Learn components of planning and reporting processes including analyzing data, interpreting results, and assisting clients with reporting of information
• Understand strategy behind investigating and correcting any financial inaccuracies within cost collectors or general ledger accounts
• Reinforce and support tasks associated with cost collector lifecycle
• Learn accounting concepts (accruals, journals and amortizations) and accounting treatment (tax, capital or expense, etc.) of technology solutions
• Assist with various ad-hoc reporting requests
• Understand headcount reconciliation process utilizing organization chart data
• Update resource information with appropriate budget salary and overhead data
• Demonstrate professionalism while providing customer service to IT leadership
• Collaborate with other departments of IT, accounting and finance

Requirements

• Currently enrolled, full time, in a bachelor's degree program at an accredited university/college focusing on Management, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, or related field
• Class Standing - Rising JUNIOR or SOPHOMORE
• Maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5
• Must have the ability to work without sponsorship (now or in the future)

Nice-to-haves

• Additional Coursework in the Computer Science discipline is highly preferred
• Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet proficiency including manipulating data, creating and modifying pivot tables, and formatting information to be easily consumed by all levels of employee and management
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with people at all levels and with varying backgrounds

Benefits

• Full-time, paid internship opportunity spanning 14 weeks
• On-the-job training and challenging assignments
• Assigned Supervisor, Coach/Mentor, and IT Intern Program Coordinator for support