Friday, March 6, 2015

Internship Opportunity: Quest Diagnostics


Quest Diagnostics is looking for interns for their Corporate Finance - Summer Internship Program!

Qualifications
Finance / accounting experience; solid analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to work independently; must be comfortable making verbal and written presentations to senior management. 

Description of Opportunity
Summer Interns can expect to work in one of the functional areas listed below.  Each Intern will be assigned a summer project to complete and will be required to present their accomplishments to senior management at the end of the program.  Opportunities are available in the following functional areas, however actual placement will be determined by needs of the business:

1. Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis:  Work with senior leadership to develop strategic plans, budgets and business forecasts at corporate level.  Analyze key business metrics such as financial performance, productivity performance and business trend impacts.  Support cost and revenue initiatives through analysis and reporting.

2. Operation Finance:  Support business unit leadership with analysis of financial and operating performance at business unit level, including analysis of sales to determine potential revenue growth opportunities, analysis of cost structure and process improvement opportunities and analysis of capital investment and working capital management.

3. Commercial Finance: (1) Pricing: Direct impact to the bottom-line by developing and implementing pricing strategies and models to support and influence the business plan. (2) Sales & Marketing Analysis:  Analyze Sales organization effectiveness and develop recommendations to drive results.  Design, implement and manage financial model for sales variable compensation.

4. Health Plan Contract Support: Provide critical analytical support for business leadership of this business segment representing.  Analyze key business metrics related to various national and regional health plans, track and measure critical contractual terms and conditions of significant health plan contracts and assist in the development of forecast and budget projections. Review summary level reporting with health plan finance team as well as regional sales teams. 

5. Treasury: (1) Capital Planning & Analysis: Continually analyze company’s cash flow and liquidity position, ensuring that capital structure is appropriate to fund company’s business plan and achieve lowest possible overall cost of capital.  (2) Capital Markets: Execute capital markets transactions, including bond issuance and redemption, share repurchases and bank funding; continually monitor capital markets and work with investment banks to identify opportunities to optimize capital structure.  (3) Risk Management & Overseas Funding: Monitor risk positions, including interest rate and FX exposures, and recommend and execute appropriate hedging strategies.  Monitor company’s domestic and overseas funding requirements and recommend & execute efficient funding strategies.  (4) Cash Management & Investment: Oversee the cash desk operations, including cash management of the ~$100 million short-term investment portfolio.  

Join Quest Diagnotics for an info session on Tuesday, March 10th from 12:30-2pm in McGinley 234 to learn more about their program. RSVP via CareerLink > Events.  

For more information and to apply to this position today, head to CareerLink, Job ID # 44314. 


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