What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Financial Intern position at Lucid Software?
Lucid Software is the leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration, helping teams see and build the future by turning ideas into reality. Our products, business, and workplace culture have received numerous awards, such as being named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology. Lucid is a hybrid workplace, allowing employees to work remotely, from one of our offices, or a combination of the two depending on the needs of the role and team. At Lucid, we hold true to our core values of teamwork over ego, innovation in everything we do, individual empowerment, initiative, and ownership, and passion and excellence in every area. We value diverse perspectives and are dedicated to creating an environment that is respectful and inclusive for everyone.
Lucid has an exciting opportunity for a Strategic Finance Intern to join the Strategic Finance (FP&A) team. This position will be responsible for a wide range of projects including strategic analysis to support Lucid’s KPIs, financial modeling, variance reporting, and ad hoc assignments. You will also be responsible for working on initiatives to improve existing FP&A processes, including automation, documentation, and streamlining of deliverables to align with best practices. The ideal candidate will have superb analytical abilities, strong skills in financial modeling, a firm understanding of finance and accounting concepts, and a desire to find solutions.
This part-time internship will begin in late August and is intended to run during the school year. Interns will work approximately 20–25 hours per week, with scheduling flexibility to support academic commitments.
Responsibilities
Lucid has an exciting opportunity for a Strategic Finance Intern to join the Strategic Finance (FP&A) team. This position will be responsible for a wide range of projects including strategic analysis to support Lucid’s KPIs, financial modeling, variance reporting, and ad hoc assignments. You will also be responsible for working on initiatives to improve existing FP&A processes, including automation, documentation, and streamlining of deliverables to align with best practices. The ideal candidate will have superb analytical abilities, strong skills in financial modeling, a firm understanding of finance and accounting concepts, and a desire to find solutions.
This part-time internship will begin in late August and is intended to run during the school year. Interns will work approximately 20–25 hours per week, with scheduling flexibility to support academic commitments.
Responsibilities
- Drive improvement of financial reporting and forecasting processes in coordination with finance team members, accounting team, and other departments
- Produce analysis and tracking of strategic initiatives and key company metrics, including the development of supporting models and expected outcomes
- Communicate financial and accounting information and trends to the management team to ensure that real-time business decisions can be made based on sound financial data
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Ad-hoc analysis as required
- Completing a bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Information Systems or related field
- Interested and excited to work in a high-growth tech/software SaaS company
- Experience in working collaboratively with a team, with strong communication skills
- Proactive, self-starter, quick learner, highly motivated
- Detail-oriented and organized
- Ability to scope projects and execute on deliverables, communicating effectively along the way
- Experience in Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides
- Bias towards finding solutions vs. shutting down ideas
- Proficiency in SQL or other programming languages is a plus