Business Analyst Intern

Business Analyst Interns join our offices around the globe to work in teams and directly with our clients in a wide range of fields such as operations, marketing & sales, digital and others for for around 10 weeks, normally during the summer. When you join WashingtonRise, you will join a company that is capable of increasing your skills, a company that challenges you to apply your expertise in innovative ways or more broadly, a company that invests in your growth and professional development.

You will work with the best people in the field to assist major organizations worldwide solve their most critical challenges, in the public, private and social sectors. You can expect to work with a variety of experts, from researchers and data scientists to app designers and software developers.

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Responsibilities & Duties:

You will play an active role in all aspects of client engagement. This includes testing and formulating hypotheses, analyzing and gathering information, and communicating and developing recommendations. You will have the opportunity to present the results to client management and to make recommendations in close collaboration with the client team members. You will work in teams with a size of 3 to 5 consultants.

Business Analyst Interns receive training and repeated coaching and mentoring from their team colleagues. This support comprises a local office partner assigned to guide your throughout your internship.

You will collaborate on the client site, with the client team and with your WashingtonRise colleagues on a specific part of the project. Examples of specific work may include interviewing clients leading client teams, interviewing clients, delivering and creating presentations, building financial models, and working with WashingtonRise experts to develop insights and perspectives for the client. Most likely you will find common areas of interest in our firm including Analytics, New Ventures, Digital, Implementation and others, when working with your colleagues.

Our Business Analyst Intern program provides first-hand consulting experience for a group of undergraduate students and eligible graduate students. You will be working in your host office for about 10 weeks and you will take part in an introductory training program and a wide range of social activities to get to know the office and the company. Upon completion of your degree, you may receive an offer to join us as a full-time Business Analyst at the end of the summer.

Qualifications:

• Currently in your junior year of an undergraduate degree; anticipated graduation date of December 2020 or May 2021
• Or completing your first year in a non-business, 2-year masters program and have a work experience of less than 2 years
• Or in your senior year and planning to enter a 1-year masters program
• Or in your first year of two years of commitment to Teach for America, and have 3 years or less of work experience to date.
• Solid commitment to excellence and personal and professional growth
• Proven aptitude for analytics and academic performance
• Demonstrated record of leadership in a professional, academic, or extracurricular setting
• Resourceful, intellectually curious, empathetic, poised, high energy and mature
• Extraordinary quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills
• Capacity to work in a team environment
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and the local office language(s)