Finance-Accounting Rotation

Summary: Walgreens is a prominent retail pharmacy and health services company that serves nearly 9 million customers daily. They are seeking candidates for the Finance Development Program, a two-year rotational program aimed at developing well-rounded business professionals through various finance-related roles and responsibilities. Participants will gain extensive training in financial planning, budgeting, risk assessment, and business strategy formulation. Responsibilities: - Assists management with financial planning, budgeting/forecasting, variance analysis and ad hoc business analysis - Assists management with development of complex business models and financial analysis applying concepts such as IRR, NPV, DCF etc - Assists management in assessment of risks and controls for one or more given business processes - Assists management in closing the books and or SEC reporting duties - Assists management with business research and S.W.O.T. analysis in support of formulating business strategies - Assists management with identifying cost savings and process improvements and working to implement them - Assists management with evaluating business contracts - Assists management with ad hoc analysis, generating and analyzing management reports and communicating clearly the outcomes Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics and no more than 2 years full-time work experience - GPA of 3.2 or above on a 4.0 scale - Experience leading people and/or processes in school and/or work situations - Experience analyzing situations and resolving problems in school and/or work situations - Experience building and maintaining relationships within a team - Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling) - Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font) - Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns) - Willing to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state) Preferred Qualifications: - Experience holding a leadership position, such as student organizations, residence halls, fraternity/sorority or similar - Recipient of achievement award or recognition – academics, sports, student organization contribution or similar - Experience with entrepreneurial achievements or activities Required Skills: Financial planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance analysis, Business analysis, Financial modeling, Risk assessment, Internal controls, SEC reporting, Contract evaluation, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word