Intern: Marketing Finance And Operations (Summer 2023)

Summary:
As a marketing finance and operations intern, you'll play a crucial role in supporting the marketing team's day-to-day operations, analyzing data, managing invoicing and budgets, and contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of marketing initiatives.
Responsibilities Include:

• Purchase Order (PO) and invoice management: Assist with the creation of purchase orders, tracking their status, and ensuring timely processing of invoices. This involves regular coordination with team members and vendors and using an accounts payable management system to manage vendor invoices, verify accuracy, and reconcile discrepancies.
• Collaboration and coordination: Work closely with marketing and finance teams and vendors to achieve role objectives. Involves a confidence to question information provided by others and go back to the source to clarify. Also involves taking a proactive approach to bring recommendations or ideas for solutions.
• Marketing analysis: Conduct analysis and provide insights on marketing spend, return on investment (ROI), and campaign effectiveness. This involves developing measurement plans, generating reports, interpreting and visualizing data, and evaluating the financial impact of marketing initiatives.
• Budget planning and management: Support the development, tracking, and management of marketing budgets. This may involve creating budget templates, inputting data, and monitoring expenditures to ensure they align with the allocated budget.
• Process improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline marketing operations and improve efficiency. This could involve evaluating existing processes, suggesting improvements, and implementing changes to optimize workflows, such as automating repetitive tasks or improving project management.

Key Skills:

• Understand how to analyze, prepare, and present information in a professional and meaningful fashion
• Persistence to follow up on details and work
• Professional written and oral communication
• Advanced Excel skills
• PowerPoint and Microsoft Office
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, and budgeting principles
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects
• Communicating questions, needs and ideas with others

Personal Competencies:

• Integrity
• Relationship builder
• Trust
• Working independently
• Perseverance
• Action Oriented

Educational Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will be pursuing a degree in finance or data science with an interest in marketing OR be pursuing a degree in marketing with substantial finance coursework.
• Applicant must be currently enrolled and pursuing a degree at an accredited school and have completed 30 semester hours of undergraduate studies prior to the start of the internship
• Applicants must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75.

At the Volvo Group, we strive for a clear, transparent, and straightforward compensation approach, motivating you to contribute to the company’s growth. For all intern and co-op positions, the hourly range is set at $16.00 - $46.00. The hourly rate for these roles is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, academic classification, and degree seeking area of study. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
We also offer the following benefits to interns and co-ops:

• Training and personal development
• Countless career opportunities / internal mobility across our global organization
• Housing assistance

The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Countless career opportunities are offered across the group’s leading brands and entities that share a culture of Trust, Passion, High Performance, Change and Customer Success.
www.volvogroup.com/career.

Volvo Construction Equipment is a global company driven by passion, curiosity and by our purpose: to build the world we want to live in. We believe that only through imagination and teamwork can we develop a world that is cleaner, smarter and more connected. Our company culture reflects this belief through the care and trust it places in our customers, employees and suppliers. People are at the heart of our business. It is through our strong network of talented, enquiring and innovative minds that we have been able to pave the way towards a more sustainable future. The global construction industry is our arena and our employees are our greatest assets.

We can only continue to stand out as industry leaders through the people driving us forwards. Come be a part of our team and help us build tomorrow.