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2025 Finance Summer Intern - (Dallas & Los Angeles)

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2025 Finance Summer Intern - (Dallas & Los Angeles)

Los Angeles, CA

About The Role:

The CBRE Finance Internship accelerates your learning and development by providing you with a strong foundation upon which to build your finance career in the commercial real estate industry. This 9-week summer intern program will introduce you to our company, our fast-paced industry and our world-class professionals. Program participants will receive real-world training and participate in networking and learning opportunities. This program gives you the opportunity to work with one of our Finance teams. Some of the potential finance team opportunities are:

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) - Leverages financial knowledge, functional expertise and technical skills to deliver consistent, premier budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning and analysis. Work closely with Leadership to provide analytical support and help with the execution of pivotal initiatives.

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Business Partnership - Aligns Segment Finance around CBRE's business and go-to-market strategy by providing consistent, elite decision-making support.

Finance Processes - Establishes the governance around process standardization, compliance and innovation.

Treasury - Monitors and leads global cash and debt across the enterprise in multiple currencies and banks. Focused on driving automation and process standardization to create operational efficiencies, monitor risk and improve global cash position.

Tax - Improves the tax efficiency of CBRE's operations and optimizes the tax results of acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations while ensuring that tax filing and payment obligations are met, and tax activity is accurately reflected in financial reports.

The summer internship will begin in June 2025 and end in August 2025. Interns will be located in either Dallas, TX or El Segundo, CA. Please only apply if you can commit to working in person in either Dallas or El Segundo during the 9-week summer program.

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Internship Perks:

  • Networking opportunities with CBRE executive leadership
  • Develop close relationships with your assigned mentor(s), manager, teammates, and fellow interns
  • Professional workshops & seminars
  • Technical training

What You May Do:

  • Build and deliver insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance measurements
  • Prepare and distribute Segment-specific management reports with commentary
  • Support pipeline and financial flash reporting
  • Support the development of Segment/ Region / Project level rolling budget / forecast process and timetable
  • Complete special projects to advance financial analysis and quality of reports to support management decisions
  • Improve documentation of existing accounting processes and find opportunities for operational improvement or automation

What You'll Need:

The internship is tailored for analytical candidates with an academic background, preferably in business. Applicants should be self-motivated, creative, and focused.

Current college junior or senior pursuing bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university (major in business, accounting, economics, finance, data analytics field preferred) Requires knowledge of basic financial terms, concepts, and accounting principles

Experience with MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.)

What We're Giving Bonus Points For:

  • Experience with Power BI, Cognos, etc. a plus
  • Strong presentation skills with the ability to effectively present information to supervisors and finance management
  • Ability to understand and articulate commercial insights
  • Ability to problem tackle

Application Process:

We are now accepting applications and will begin our formal selection process for the internship program in late October 2024. Qualified applicants will be contacted in November 2024 if they have been selected to move forward in our process.

Why CBRE

With broader and deeper capabilities than any other company, CBRE is the top full-service real estate services and investment organization in the world! A CBRE internship provides an outstanding opportunity to get a head start in the finance industry working alongside our dedicated teams. Interns will gain valuable real-life experience and learn the business by working on CBRE finance teams.

CBRE has been included in the Fortune 500 since 2008, ranking #135 in 2024. We have been voted the industry's top brand by the Lipsey Company for 23 consecutive years and named one of Fortune's "Most Loved Companies" in the real estate sector for nine years in a row! Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CBRE".

We serve real estate investors and occupiers through approximately 500+ offices worldwide (excluding affiliates). Altogether, we offer a broad range of coordinated services, including facilities, transaction and project management, property management, investment management, appraisal, valuation, property leasing, strategic consulting, property sales, mortgage services and development services.

California Residents: CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training and experience. The minimum salary for the Intern position is $28.00 per hour and the maximum salary for the Intern position is $30.00 per hour. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company's success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).

NOTE: Some, but not all, of our positions may have an additional requirement to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing. If you have questions about the requirement(s) for this position, please inform your Recruiter.

Client-provided location(s): Los Angeles, CA, USA; Dallas, TX, USA
Job ID: CBRE-183351
Employment Type: Intern