Spring 2027 Finance Internship

Collections That Care; New York (NY); On-site; USD 10,000 - 12,000; Part time

Job summary

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York invites applications for a Financial Planning and Analysis Intern for Spring 2027. The role supports the Finance team with budget templating, process automation, and project-based reporting and analytics.

You will refine budget templates, automate recurring tasks, track variances, prepare summaries and dashboards for leadership reviews, and collaborate with fundraising analytics and cash flow reporting.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or graduate student with finance/accounting/economics background preferred.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; BI/automation tools optional but valued.
• Detail-oriented with ability to handle large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Refine budget templates used across departments for planning.
• Identify and build automation for recurring budget and forecasting tasks.
• Track actuals vs budget and flag variances.
• Prepare summaries and dashboards for internal leadership reviews.
• Support fundraising analytics and cash flow reporting data cleaning.

Skills

Excel proficiency

PowerPoint proficiency

BI/automation experience

Data handling

Communication skills

Independent work

Education

Rising senior or graduate student

Tools

BI tooling

Job description

Summary

The Whitney seeks a Financial Planning and Analysis Intern to support the Finance team with budget templating, process automation, project-based reporting and analytics for the Spring 2027 semester.

Expected Projects & Assignments

• Refine standardized, activity-based budget templates that departments across the Museum rely on for planning.
• Help identify and build automation for recurring budget and forecasting tasks, cutting down manual work for the team.
• Track actuals against budget, flag variances, and identify the drivers.
• Assist in preparing summary materials, and dashboards for internal meetings and leadership reviews.
• Partner with the Advancement team on fundraising data; clean and maintain fundraising trackers and help support fundraising analytics.
• Support cash flow reporting by cleaning data and standardizing reporting pools used across the Museum’s Finance function.

Key Details

Stipend: $3,000

Duration: January 18 – April 26, 2027

Schedule: PT (16–21 hours/week)

Deadline:November 9, 2026

Eligibility

Skills & Qualifications

• Rising senior (undergraduate) or graduate student, currently enrolled in an accredited degree program.
• Coursework or academic background in finance, accounting, economics or a related field preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Excel PowerPoint; experience in BI, automation, or AI tools is preferred but not required.
• Detail-oriented, organized and comfortable working with large datasets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently on assign tasks while communicating proactively with your supervisor.

About

The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for 86 years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States.

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