Finance Intern (Summer)

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented intern to join our Corporate FP&A and Treasury team. This role will offer exposure to a wide range of financial functions, including budgeting, P&L and cash forecasting, financial analysis, financial modeling, and cash flow optimization. The intern will play an integral part in helping the team analyze financial data, support operational initiatives, and ad hoc projects to continue to evolve our department.

Key Responsibilities

The Corporate Finance and Treasury team is looking for a summer intern to assist with some outstanding projects. These projects will give this individual insight to our Corporate Finance and Treasury team. In addition to learning about the Oil-Dri business, they will see how the business directly impacts us from a corporate finance and treasury level on a day-to-day basis.

- Support budgeting processes by gathering data, creating models, and analyzing trends.

- Collaborate with the team in incorporating financial systems to streamline the budget process

Treasury:

- Create a new reporting mechanism to improve the cash outflow component of the cash forecasting process

Corporate Finance Projects:

- Improve upon current KPI dashboard and develop an automated and robust model

- Incorporate model into new financial systems for ease of access for senior leadership

Qualifications

Education:

- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.

Skills & Abilities:

- Outstanding quantitative skills, including intermediate MS Excel abilities

- Familiarity with basic Accounting and Finance principles

- Strong attention to detail and an initiative-taking attitude

- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

- Willingness to learn and take direction

Compensation:

- $18 - 22/hour (dependent on academic year).

About Us:

Oil-Dri Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty sorbent products for consumer and business-to-business markets that has been voted as a Top 100 workplaces in the Chicago Tribune. Oil-Dri’s products are sold in the pet care, animal health, fluids purification, agricultural, sports field, industrial and automotive markets. Oil-Dri controls millions of tons of specialty mineral reserves, including calcium bentonite, attapulgite, and diatomaceous shale. The company’s mines and manufacturing facilities are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, and California. Oil-Dri is a family-controlled and operated organization that emphasizes honesty, integrity, and accountability. The company is dedicated to fulfilling its mission to Create Value From Sorbent Minerals.

Oil-Dri is committed to providing equal opportunity for all teammates and qualified candidates without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Accordingly, all employment decisions and personnel actions or programs such as hiring, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, transfers, reductions in workforce, and training, etc. will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity.