Internship - 2025 Undergraduate Finance Intern

Job Description:

The role of Undergraduate Finance Intern is intended to start in Summer 2025.

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

An internship is a temporary position within 3M. Interns typically work a full-time schedule throughout a 10-12 week assignment. This position is limited to working 899 hours per service credit year.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Finance Intern, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Addressing relevant business concerns through both individual and team-oriented projects

• Participating in a highly developed new Finance Employee network, connecting you with numerous events and colleagues

• Taking advantage of initial and ongoing training opportunities and exposure to senior leadership through informational interviews, social events, and a formal presentation

• 3M Finance intern assignments can occur in any of the functional areas within our Finance organization; interns will work on projects that represent real challenges faced by 3M and mirror the work of our full-time team members

Example Assignment Areas include:

• Business Finance Counsel: Assigned responsibility for a business segment, product line, plant, or staff organization to provide business counsel, analysis and financial recommendations. 

• Auditing: Assigned to one or more auditing teams to perform audits in specific organizations or audit process improvement projects. 

• Business Accounting: Assigned projects to improve global financial accounting processes or assigned responsibility for a process or business segment to provide accurate, efficient and timely financial reporting, analysis and participate in process standardization.

• Treasury: Specific projects to assess and make recommendations on investment or risk management strategies. 

• Plant Analyst Center: Assigned projects to analyze a given improvement opportunity in US Plant Financial Analyst Center that would either create, standardize or optimize processes or reporting for US plant financial support.

• Insights & Analytics: Apply programming skills and advanced statistical modeling techniques to large quantities of data to deliver insights into major finance questions and problems.

• Other: Assignments in Tax or Corporate Accounting.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree, from an accredited institution

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, mathematics, economics, business, information systems or a related field from an accredited institution

• Completed a minimum of sophomore year (4 semesters) by the start of the internship

• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale

• Demonstrate high ethical standards and leadership abilities.

• Demonstrate interpersonal, communication, and team skills

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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