Feasibility Intern

Job Summary

The Marriott Development Planning and Feasibility (“Feasibility”) and Financial Analysis & Strategic Planning (“FASP”) department in Asia Pacific Excluding China (“APEC”) is responsible for hotel underwriting, valuation, brand strategy, and business intelligence to support hotel development, conversion, and renovation/repositioning opportunities for all Marriott lodging products in APEC. The team also provides analytical support and advisory that enables the APEC leadership to make business and strategic decisions that drive overall business results and create the most shareholder value. These economic, market, business and project evaluations are instrumental to achieving Marriott’s expansion goals in new markets and important to the overall, long-range growth strategy of the Company.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As an intern of the APEC Feasibility & FASP team, the Intern will assist the team with hotel facilities, brand standards and financial support and assistance to the Feasibility & FASP team with projects and strategic plans. She/he will provide analytical, data gathering and any other required tasks to support to the Manager, Feasibility and Manager, FASP.

• Support the maintenance and enhancement of the team’s hotel facilities and financial databases.
• Support the development and creation of dashboards and reporting tools to improve data visualization and insights.
• Assist in performing financial and analytical analysis for hotel valuation, financial assessments, and investment evaluations.
• Conduct market research and support the assessment of potential projects through hotel facility reviews and financial projections.
• Perform analysis using Excel and other relevant analytical tools, create/format presentation decks using PowerPoint and write
• Perform other reasonable job duties as requested

JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

You should be a high-potential intern who is passionate, committed and keen to establish a career in the hospitality industry with the following attributes:

• Positive attitude, enthusiasm and eagerness to learn 
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative work environment
• Diligent, meticulous, responsible analytical, numerical and organized
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ideally, relevant work experience working at hotel operators or owners
• Familiarity with facilities and financial concepts in hospitality is a plus (e.g. hotel room mix, F&B seat count, RevPAR, GOP Margins, etc.)
• Ability to organize and interpret financial information and present analytical results in manner appropriate for decision-making
• Pursuing a Bachelor degree
• Excellent command of spoken and written English, and strong report-writing capability
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint)
• Experience with Microsoft Power tools (PowerQuery, Power BI, Power Automate) or other data processing/visualization tools ideal
• Gain insights into how the team assesses new build and conversion hotel projects
• Experience how the team improve analytical capabilities with the use of data
• Understand thinking behind business objectives and strategic plans to achieve objectives
• Learn how the organization’s financial analysis and strategic planning projects 
• Expanding knowledge about the hospitality industry in the Asia Pacific region

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The intern will have the opportunity to work closely with the Feasibility & FASP team, and learning objectives will include:

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