Spring 2027 Finance Internship
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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 assigned tasks while communicating proactively with your supervisor.
Pay
Stipend: $3,000 for the internship period.
Schedule
Duration: January 18 – April 26, 2027 (Spring 2027 semester).
Part‑time: 16–21 hours per week.
Application deadline: November 9, 2026.
About The Whitney Museum of American Art
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.