AI-Driven Legal Ops Finance & Data Intern

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; St. Louis, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cigna Group is offering a full-time summer internship in Legal Operations in St. Louis, combining finance, analytics, and contracting data to drive smarter decisions.

You will transform data into insights, support leaders, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize how legal work is measured and managed. You will gain hands-on experience with Excel, reporting tools, and AI-enabled capabilities; develop dashboards and automated reports; and learn about cost management, variance

Qualifications

• Demonstrated analytical project experience is expected.
• Rising senior progressing toward a bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, finance or economics.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to connect data findings to business context.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and clean data organization.
• Ability to use AI tools responsibly to support analysis, automation, workflow improvement, and insight generation.
• Collaborative work style, professional judgment, curiosity, and comfort learning new systems in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Transform legal operations, vendor spend, budget, and contract data into actionable reporting that helps leaders understand trends, risks, opportunities, and performance.
• Use Excel, reporting tools, and AI-enabled capabilities to streamline manual analysis, improve data quality, and support repeatable reporting processes.
• Build or enhance dashboards, automated reports, workflows, and analytics that make legal spend, contract volume, and operational metrics easier to monitor and act on.
• Identify opportunities to improve variance tracking, reduce manual manipulation, and strengthen consistency across legal financial and operational reporting.
• Collaborate with Legal Operations, Finance, Procurement, Technology, and other partners to improve efficiency, cost management, and stakeholder experience.
• Develop working knowledge of departmental systems, data sources, and processes to deliver timely recommendations and project outcomes.

Skills

Analytical ability

Excel proficiency

AI tools usage

Communication skills

Collaborative work style

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, finance or economics

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Cigna Group is offering a full-time summer internship in Legal Operations in St. Louis, combining finance, analytics, and contracting data to drive smarter decisions.

You will transform data into insights, support leaders, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize how legal work is measured and managed. You will gain hands-on experience with Excel, reporting tools, and AI-enabled capabilities; develop dashboards and automated reports; and learn about cost management, variance