2023 - Early Career – Strategy & Business Management – Summer Intern - New York, Ny

Who we are

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. Building on 100 years of experience, today AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services to customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security.

About the role

AIG’s summer interns are immersed in the day-to-day operations of a fast-moving, global insurance company. You will gain valuable, hands-on experience and insurance industry knowledge during the 10-week program. As a summer intern you will work side-by-side with industry leaders on dynamic projects, with ample opportunity for challenges, learning and achievement.

After initial orientation and training, summer interns will join one of our business lines, which offer a unique opportunity to obtain core technical knowledge and professional skills in a diverse and global environment. In addition to the experience acquired on the job, summer interns have the opportunity to hear directly from senior management, and participate in webinars, discussion forums and networking receptions.

The Strategy & Business Management Intern is a critical analytical role within AIG’s Global Business Operations & IT organization, supporting the Strategy & Business Management organization.

In this role, you will apply your knowledge in strategy development, general business (financial, operational, etc.) analysis, and analytical problem-solving, to help bring some of the companies most critical ideas to life and support leadership in running a large, global organization.

• You will rely on your data, research, and analysis skills to the team in efficiently and effectively running the Global Business Operations & IT organization.
• As ideas move to execution, you will work in partnership with the team to support modeled outcomes are tracked in our KPIs and analyze the real economic value being created by the work.
• Support the delivery of critical management projects that will drive major decisions for the organization and broader company.
• You will work directly with the Business Management team to analyze data in support of developing strategies for improving performance through utilizing different management levers and operating capabilities.
• Support the team in incorporating ideas into management decisions and planning.
• You will apply your strong analytical and financial skills to help size opportunities, sharpen ideas with data and analysis, build roadmaps, model outcomes, evaluate investments, and determine economic value to AIG based on our KPIs.
• You’ll leverage your intellectual curiosity to understand economic, technological, and management trends and benchmarks in the industry that will help us define how we operate both now and into the future

Upon finishing the internship, you may be considered for a full-time analyst role beginning summer of 2024.

What we’re looking for:

AIG seeks candidates who have excelled in previous work experience, demonstrated outstanding academic and extracurricular achievement, possess strong analytical, quantitative, and interpersonal skills, and are enthusiastic about and committed to the insurance industry. 

We also look for a diverse background of experience, culture and thought. Successful candidates typically have a global perspective and a team-oriented track record.

• Knowledge in process design and improvement, org design, and operating model development.
• Ability to self-start and figure out how to get things done.
• Understanding of financial concepts with an ability to conduct base financial analysis and build high-quality, accurate models.
• Understanding of the quantitative and qualitative analytical skills needed to support business problem solving, decision-making, and the management of a large organization (operational, financial, customer, competitive, etc.), with familiarity in the techniques of shaping management hypotheses, testing ideas with data, and guiding decisions with rigorous analysis.
• Skills and knowledge in data collection, aggregation, and analytical work including a proficiency of Excel.

Required:

•     Minimum 3.2 grade point average (unofficial transcript required upon application).

•     Candidate for Bachelor's degree to be received no later than June 2024.

About You:

• Fosters a culture of diversity and inclusion
• Passionate for business, technology, and customers
• Possesses the ability to speak to improvements, problems-solved, and specific results achieved
• Self-starter that is comfortable working in a dynamic program environment that includes a degree of ambiguity. Willing to dive in as part of the team to get the job done.  
• A proactive problem-solver with a solutions-oriented attitude
• Strong, practical problem-solving abilities that shows maturity in finding balance between addressing root cause and introducing changes in fast order
• A strategic thinker and analytically oriented, with experience and a passion for driving results
• Blend of quantitative and qualitative skills, with the ability to be creative
• Passionate to build strong internal networks
• Working towards a Bachelor’s degree or graduate degree in a related field
• Proficiency of PowerPoint and Excel