2025 Accounting and Finance Summer Internship

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

Shape your future with a dynamic internship experience at New York Life. We offer opportunities across a variety of exciting businesses, including Actuarial, AI & Data, Finance, Investments, Technology, Underwriting, and more. Your internship journey is designed to challenge you through hands-on work experience that will equip you with valuable skills you can use anywhere. You will build your network through collaboration and connection with talented interns and experienced employees through team-building activities, mentorship programs, and fun social events. By the end of your internship, you'll be equipped with new skills and a network that will propel you forward in your career journey.

 

Role Overview:

As a Finance and Accounting Summer Intern, you will have the exciting opportunity to gain the experience, skills, support, and exposure that you need to help launch your careers. Our summer program combines challenging work experience and the opportunity to work closely with Finance professionals. You’ll receive continuous training and development through classes and weekly presentations, exposure to senior management, and social and networking events to help build relationships throughout the company. At the end of the summer, multiple offers will be extended for our full-time Finance & Accounting Rotational Leadership program. Interns are scheduled to work from late May through mid-August. Generally, 15 interns are placed each summer with a competitive salary, and the option for free housing.

 

What You’ll Do:

Development, classes, and presentations:

The summer begins with an array of training classes focusing on enhancing skills in Microsoft Excel, SAP training, and introduction to Insurance and Financial Services Industry concepts. We provide significant opportunities to improve business and leadership skills that will enable advancement throughout the company. The learning continues throughout the summer in many forms:

• Weekly seminars presented by experienced professionals from Corporate Finance, Insurance, and Investments groups focusing on helping interns to understand the industry, financial functions, and our organization
• Development of communication skills through public speaking workshops and final presentations
• Mentor pairing with a full-time Finance employee who will provide guidance and support throughout your internship
• Exposure to the Senior Finance Leadership Team (SFLT) and Finance Governance Committee – events include:
  • Group chat with NYL’s Chief Financial Officer
  • Breakfast with NYL’s Treasurer and Controller
  • Presentations by senior leaders from various Finance functions
  • A one-on-one lunch with a Finance Executive Officer
  • Small group sessions with Governance Committee members who are available in an advisory capacity
  • Farewell dinner with CFO & other senior Finance leaders
• Interns will have the opportunity to participate in a group business project with interns from other summer programs
• At the end of the summer, interns give a formal presentation about their experience at NYL, projects that they were involved in, and special assignments that were completed throughout the summer

 

Work experience:

Interns are placed across the organization in Corporate Finance and the Insurance and Agency Group. Specific functions could include:

• Accounting Operations
• Budget & Expense Management
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Investment Accounting
• Statutory Accounting
• Tax Accounting
• Ratings & Funding
• Capital Management
• Projections
• Treasury
• Data Analytics
• Procurement

 

Social Events & Networking:

Interns are encouraged to join fu