Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are now accepting applications for students to become a Capex/Opex Business Operations Professional Intern in 2025. Students with varying backgrounds and professional interests and curiosities are encouraged to apply for this unique paid internship experience.

You will be part of the Global Real Estate team. As a Capex/Opex Business Operations Intern you will collaborate with several Global Real Estate teams including Design & Construction, Facilities Management, Strategy & Transactions, Head of Real Estate and Portfolio Leads of Northeast-NY region, Finance, etc. In your role you will be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for the wider business, other business units, & their customers. Our culture of flexibility and freedom are pillars that embrace long-term career growth and learning opportunities in an environment that highlights your unique skills and experience.

• Supporting the internal continuation of business operations.

• Supporting development of financial reports and presentations.

• Tracking capital spending against plan and provide reporting to monitor Geo performance.

• Championing and supporting critical projects, such as business process improvement, budgeting and best practices initiatives, or procurement processes. Collaborate, leverage or create standardized processes or frameworks, and display strong teamwork and leadership skills.

• Supporting the creation of business processes and integrating standard methodologies to deploy resources efficiently. You will also be responsible for partnering with cross-functional teams to coordinate and deliver projects and initiatives, ensuring clarity and identifying/driving solutions to complex problems.

• Strong data and analytical skills.

• Project/Program management experience with a focus on business operations.

• Knowledge of capital planning process and understanding of drivers of real estate capital consumption.

• Organizational skills to efficiently bring together all stakeholders to achieve business goal of accurate capital planning and forecasting.

• Experience with relevant communication applications such as Slack, Teams, etc.

• Demonstrated accountability and adaptability with willingness to readily and voluntarily take ownership of highly challenging tasks and problems, even beyond initial scope of responsibility.

• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view.

• Effective interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions.