Intern, Strategic Growth

Overview

Southern Star is currently seeking highly motivated and energetic students or recent graduates to join our team as summer interns. The Strategic Growth Intern is exposed to a variety of project-based assignments and will receive mentorship, detailed orientation and training, and valuable work assignments.

Company Overview:

Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline is a leading transporter of natural gas to America’s heartland, providing quality service since 1904. Southern Star takes pride in being an employer of choice. Southern Star provides a modern working environment that is fun, friendly, inclusive, and diverse. Our business is more than just transporting and storing natural gas. It's about the people who make it happen and the communities we serve.

Job Overview:

This position offers a variety of opportunities including basic financing tasks related to modeling, market research, analytical, and presentation development. Activities can include but are not limited to supporting varied and diverse ad hoc strategy related projects that may relate to products and market opportunities.

Interns will typically support the Strategic Growth Department in the performance of assignments, spend time shadowing actual business case processes, and have unique assignments that support larger projects as well as experience the day-to-day workings of the department. They may perform and/or participate in additional activities/events which help them build a strong network within the Southern Star community and with fellow interns.

Highlights:

- This is a 12-week, competitively paid summer internship starting in May and ending in August.

- Interns work 40 hours per week with paid company holidays.

- A taxable housing stipend may be provided to obtain housing near the Southern Star work location if the successful candidate’s permanent home address and current college address is determined by Southern Star to be greater than reasonable driving distance from the assigned work location.

- Participants are eligible for full-time employment upon successful completion of the Southern Star internship program.

Responsibilities

- Market research, planning, and strategy.

- Learning and understanding of how to use financial modeling and analytical tools to build business

- Assist in the review of income statements, balance sheets and cash flows to assist with trend analysis and identification of operational risks and/or opportunities.

- Assist in the ad hoc project analysis as assigned to support the corporate development team.

- Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

- You must be 18 years of age by the start of the summer internship assignment and maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.75 after each completed semester/term.

- You must be authorized to work in the United States.

- Sophomore candidate must be in second year of discipline studies.

- Junior and Senior candidates are on track to graduate with a bachelor’s/master’s degree.

- Majoring in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or Business Administration.

- Plan to pursue a career in Finance or Corporate Planning.

- Experience using Microsoft Office programs including PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Experience using PowerBi is a plus.

- Comfortable presenting to an audience.