Why Complete a Remote Business or Finance Opportunity
The Finance career field offers interns the opportunity to learn and understand how businesses manage their assets in terms of banking, investments, and credit. As the bottom line of any business is to make money, having well managed finances is a crucial aspect to the success of all businesses. Interns seeking a finance placement may work for a company within their finance department or work for a financial service firm that takes on clients of varying industries.
Finance has grown substantially in the last decade, as the nature of financial transactions begin to include cryptocurrency. Our finance placements allow students the change to view the finance field from a variety of lenses, and learn how the different financial markets contribute to a country’s success. With the emergence of Financial Technology as a field, students have the opportunity to gain insight into the rapidly evolving sectors within the financial industry! Whether interested in investment banking, venture capital, wealth management, or Cryptocurrency, this career field is an excellent choice for those seeking a finance-focused career!
Sample Placements
- Support a Spanish company that focuses on introducing new products to the Japanese market in preparing for their crowdfunding product launch as well as developing the Amazon and Rakuten marketplaces and corresponding sales outreach.
- Support an international IP/technology investment, fund management, advisory services and commercialization organization completing a due diligence report for their Japan fund while delivering market analysis and financial modeling for existing TPTF and Japan Fund portfolio companies.
Sample Tasks
- B2C sales
- Clearly Articulate Complex Concepts
- Client Relations and Support
- Commercial Awareness
- Data Analysis & Business Reporting
- Data Entry
- Facilitation and Presentation Delivery Skills
- Financial Modelling
- Financial Reporting & Forecasting
- Invoice Processing
- Market Research / Market Analysis
- Negotiation
- Presentation Skills
- Process of Conducting Audits
What is a Remote Internship?
Remote internships are internships that are done completely online or remotely, from the comfort of your own home. You are placed with a company, and have a supervisor that you report to. You are in regular contact with the supervisor/team via virtual methods such as video call, phone call, email and instant messenger. Companies exist both domestically and internationally, with placements spanning over 3500 different companies across 70 countries.
Placement Process
Virtual Internships guarantees a placement for all students accepted into our program. Review the Linear Placement Process to learn more.
Working with a Provider
As Virtual Internships is a provider, we work to not only provide you a guaranteed internship that meets your skills and interests, but provide scaffolding and support including, weekly discussions, online professional development curriculum, and coaching calls to support your post-program employment. Applying to our program means that if accepted you are guaranteed an internship in the Career Field (we have 18 to choose from) of your choice, and aligned to your university’s dates and requirements.
Internship Dates:
- We have a start date every other week!
- Interns can select to work 10, 20 or 30 hours a week
- Interns can work a minimum of 4 weeks or a maximum of 16 weeks.
What is Included?
This is an unpaid experience but offers a full time work experience with a global established company as well as additional support to include:
- Guaranteed Virtual International Internship in the country or career field of choice
- Dedicated Program Experience Manager to check-in weekly with interns
- Assigned Internship Coach to complete midpoint and end of program coaching calls with delivery of Global Career Management Plan (GCMP) and Global Employability Certificate
- Access to CareerBridge, our Global Internship Curriculum walking students through resume creation, interview prep, time management, remote work and more.
- Weekly Group Discussions or Business Webinars covering a range of topical themes
- Full End of Program Report including supervisor evaluation, student assessment, and GCMP
