# Financial Specialist Intern

**Company**: Crop Science
**Location**: Muscatine, Iowa
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $20.75 to $58.50 per hour
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

As a Financial Specialist Intern at Crop Science, you will report to the Enabling Unit Lead and become actively involved in projects and initiatives that require applying financial knowledge to a wide range of situations with varying degrees of complexity.

Your primary responsibilities will be to support the Site Controllers in:

- Developing the annual operating budget for the site

- Developing annual product cost rollups for product cost standards, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and error resolution

- Analyzing cost center spending and value flow assessments for consistency with the operational plan

- Developing periodic cost estimates

- Being accountable for account reconciliations and communicating significant impacts

- Collaborating with site leadership and operations teams to ensure drivers of financial impacts are understood

- Collaborating with project managers to ensure compliance with Capital versus Expense guidelines

- Conducting analysis and explaining changes in individual product standards

- Developing monthly and quarterly forecasts for Crop Protection sites in partnership with functional leaders

- Analyzing and communicating actual performance against budget and forecast

- Developing analysis and providing written feedback to the Site Controller for variances against budget and forecast

To be successful in this role, you should possess:

- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Ag Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field

- Demonstrated alignment with Bayer's Values (Leadership, Integrity, Flexibility, and Efficiency)

- Excellent ability to interact and communicate effectively at all levels and with individuals from various parts of the organization

- Motivated, self-starting individual with a proven ability to prioritize multiple projects and work effectively in a team environment

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

- Ability to commute daily to and from the work location in Muscatine, IA

- Willingness to work in a chemical manufacturing environment

In terms of compensation, you can expect an hourly rate of approximately between $20.75 to $58.50. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission. Benefits may include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- financial analysis
- budgeting
- forecasting

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