What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer 2027 Risk Analyst Intern position at Koch Business Solutions, LP?
Your Job
Koch Inc. is seeking a Summer 2027 Risk Analyst Intern who is excited about discovering their passions and potential while gaining real-world experience helping our businesses identify, assess, and optimize risk. This internship provides the opportunity to work alongside experienced risk professionals while developing analytical, financial, and problem-solving skills that create value across a diverse portfolio of businesses.
This posting is specifically for our Koch Wichita Headquartered Companies with the opportunity located in Wichita, KS. Depending on performance and business needs, future full-time opportunities may also be based in Wichita, Kansas.
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What You Will Do
As a Risk Analyst Intern, you will work with experienced professionals who help businesses understand and optimize risk and reward. You will gain exposure to multiple risk disciplines, including credit risk, market risk, insurance risk, and broader enterprise risk management activities.
Our interns contribute to meaningful projects while developing their understanding of risk analysis, financial markets, economic decision-making, and data-driven business solutions. In addition to project work, interns explore Koch's Principle Based Management philosophy, collaborate with interns across functions, engage with business leaders, and gain exposure to the diverse industries and capabilities within Koch.
Typical Responsibilities May Include:
- Support investment and trading strategies with risk analysis and statistical modeling
- Assist in analyzing, monitoring, and estimating market, credit, counterparty, insurance, and operational risk exposures.
- Prepare and maintain risk reports, dashboards, and analytical tools used to support business decisions.
- Conduct financial, economic, and quantitative analysis to identify risk and reward tradeoffs.
- Research market trends, economic conditions, and industry developments that may impact business performance.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities where analytical solutions can create value.
- Utilize data, statistical methods, and modeling techniques to quantify and communicate risk exposures.
- Support the development and improvement of risk management capabilities, processes, and reporting tools.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to business partners in a clear and actionable manner.
- Assist with insurance-related projects, credit reviews, risk assessments, or market risk analyses depending on business needs.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Eligible for full-time employment no later than Summer 2028.
- Enrolled in a degree program in Finance, Economics, Risk Management, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Quantitative Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring visa transfer or sponsorship.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Demonstrated interest in financial markets, risk management, economics, or data analytics.
- Experience using Microsoft Excel to analyze and interpret data.
- Experience with data visualization and analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar platforms.
- Exposure to programming or analytical tools such as Python, SQL, R, VBA, or similar technologies.
- Demonstrated initiative, intellectual curiosity, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch Inc. creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).