Business Analytics Intern (Summer 2024)

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Administrative Services

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

The Transamerica Business Analytics Internship provides you with a unique learning experience with hands-on experience to support your professional growth. You will gain knowledge of the financial industry from service to back-office operations. You will benefit from being in an expanding, entrepreneurial environment, set within the greater infrastructure of a large corporation.

Most significantly, you will be a part of the Transamerica team, and you will be working on real projects. Your personal success will help to drive our success. Finally, you will be in an environment with direct access and ample opportunity to network with department leaders and other professionals within our organization.


What You Will Learn: You will gain real world experience and learn best practices of data management through tools such as Alteryx, Salesforce, and Microsoft SQL Server. A typical day could include working on sales tracking, assisting with lead distribution to our sales team, or supporting the Data & Analytics team. You will be working with a team of ambitious and engaged professionals who bring fresh ideas and diverse perspectives to help us continually shake up the status quo and stay on the forefront of reinventing how we meet our customer needs.

Job Description

What Success Looks Like:  

• Research and retrieve data as requested 

• Verify data by comparing it to source documents 

• Use data tools such as Alteryx, Python, and other data analyzing programs 

• Data entry and validation for financial services transactions 

• Communication and presentation of reports and in-depth analysis, including recommendations for improvements in business processes and sales efficiencies 

• Process development and management, including quality checking. 

What You Need: 

• To qualify for internship, applicants must be currently enrolled full-time at a college or university pursuing a specific degree program.  Internships are not available for students who have completed their college education or who will graduate prior to the conclusion of the internship.

• In pursuit of BS or MS degree in a technical field (Finance/Business, Accounting, Statistics, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, etc.) 

• Microsoft Office Suite proficiency including superior Microsoft Excel experience

• Basic coding experience/knowledge

• Organized and self-motivated, ability to prioritize time-sensitive initiatives