# Data and Finance Co-op Intern **Company**: Manulife Financial Corporation **Experience**: entry **Job type**: internship **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://manulife.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MFCJH_Jobs/job/Hong-Kong/Co-op-2027---Data-and-Finance--6-months-_JR26091703?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0a57cb63-e8a ## Description At Manulife, we believe in investing in the future, starting with you. Our Co-op Internship Program provides the support, structure, and meaningful opportunities you need to learn, grow, and make an impact. As a Data and Finance co-op intern, you will gain hands-on experience working with financial data, reporting processes, system integrations, and process improvement initiatives within a leading life insurance organization. You will contribute to meaningful projects that support financial reporting, reconciliation, controls, testing, and data transformation while developing practical skills in analytics, stakeholder collaboration, and problem-solving. **Position Responsibilities:** - Support finance data preparation, validation, analysis, and reporting activities to facilitate financial reporting, reconciliation, and control processes. - Assist in reviewing and maintaining source data, mapping files, and reporting datasets to enhance data quality, consistency, and accuracy. - Identify and investigate data issues, logic gaps, mapping discrepancies, and reporting inconsistencies across source systems and reporting outputs. - Support process improvement initiatives and automation opportunities to reduce manual effort, enhance efficiency, and strengthen reporting controls. - Translate complex data and system outputs into clear, actionable insights and user-friendly formats for finance stakeholders. - Assist in testing reporting enhancements, system changes, and process improvements, including test preparation, result validation, defect tracking, and issue resolution. - Prepare clear documentation, process flows, and presentation materials to communicate data logic, methodologies, findings, issues identified, and recommended improvements. - Collaborate with regional and local Finance teams, as well as cross-functional stakeholders, to support project implementation, reporting initiatives, and ongoing business requirements. **Required Qualifications:** - Current undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Business Administration (BBA), Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related discipline. - Basic knowledge of SQL, Python, or business intelligence tools functional build for data modelling with structured data in reporting and analytics. - Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookup functions, pivot tables, and working with large datasets. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand data relationships, business logic, and reporting requirements. - Detail-oriented with the ability to identify data quality issues, inconsistencies, exceptions, and control gaps. - Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present findings and explain data insights clearly to business stakeholders. - Self-motivated, organized, and eager to learn in a fast-paced finance, data, and reporting environment, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams. - Available to commit to a full-time internship (5 days per week) during the internship period. **Internship Period:** January 2027 – June 2027 **Benefits:** - We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want. - We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words. - As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see. ## Skills ### Required - SQL - Python - business intelligence tools - Microsoft Excel - data modelling - analytics - problem-solving - communication --- Source: [Apply at manulife.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://manulife.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MFCJH_Jobs/job/Hong-Kong/Co-op-2027---Data-and-Finance--6-months-_JR26091703?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)