Business Value Engineering & Financial Analytics Intern

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What you’ll do 

Looking for *that* internship? The game-changing one that’ll help you learn, grow, and chart your path forward? You’ll find it at SAS. Our interns aren’t coffee runners – they do real, meaningful work. Our award-winning internship program is focused on development, culture, and community. We’ll help you grow professionally, find (or further) your passion, and make memorable connections that last beyond the summer.  

The Business Value Engineering team is responsible for providing consultative guidance, including needs discovery, positioning, mapping of software capabilities to business value and vision, leveraging proof of concept results to quantify potential financial impact, and business-oriented presentations that highlight the value and uniqueness of SAS offerings to prospect organizations.  A primary focus of the role will be to apply an understanding of how technology is used to create business and financial value to help customers understand, articulate, and communicate how SAS adds business value to a customer’s specific organization or function.  As a graduate student intern you will be a significant contributor to a team of people dedicated to ensuring business objectives are well understood and software capabilities are appropriately aligned to successful implementation and adoption.

As an intern, you might: 

• Individually or with another Business Value Engineer, develop financial business cases for customers, calculating Return on Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV), payback period, or other key financial metrics which are impacted by SAS’ analytics offerings.
• Build out and refine Analytics Use Case frameworks and collaborate with Industry Consultants to further develop and expand the ongoing collection of customer use cases across major industries.
• Individually or with another Business Value Engineer, strategize with internal stakeholders (inclusive of the sales account executive, data scientists, technical solution architects, and industry consultants) on objectives for customer meetings; work with internal & external stakeholders over the course of a sales cycle to synthesize how analytics provides quantitative or qualitative business value for customer’s organization.
• Assist in discovery meetings to collect, analyze, clarify, and document business requirements during the sales cycle to support the formation of a customer’s internal business case.
• Develop custom value propositions or leverage & modify existing messaging frameworks which directly align the customer’s vision to the SAS analytics solution, value derived from the solution, and how the solution interacts with a customer’s business operations.

Required Qualifications  

• You’re a Graduate student enrolled in an accredited university studying Business Administration, Operations or Supply Chain Management, Information Systems Management, Analytics, or Data Science; not graduating prior to December 2026. 
• Coursework in Database Management, Distributed Systems Management, Managing Digital Business, Operationalizing AI, Accounting and Finance Analytics, and Statistics preferred.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do. 
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal. 
• Leadership abilities. Your past experiences demonstrate you'll take initiative and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• You're interested in the future of Analytics and embrace technology

Preferred Qualifications  

• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Business Intelligence, Software Development, Data & Analytics Modeling, Data Visualization, Data Analysis a plus.
• Previous experience with or knowledge of various software packages/programming languages such as Tableau, Qlik, AWS, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Power Platform, JavaScript, R, Python, Oracle, SQL or Databricks also a plus.
• Previous experience with financial analysis and/or business case development a plus.
• Working knowledge of various industries in how they conduct business operations to further translate and convey the impact of data analytic solutions within a specific customer organization or function.
• Previous technology experience in consulting or software pre-sales support is considered a plus.
• FinOps or Cloud Economics experience is also a plus.
• Candidate should have a strong interest in data analytics and computer technology and a desire to stay current with the pace of technology and its application across all customers and industries.

Timeline 

• Applications open: February 2025 on a rolling basis
• Internship: May 19, 2026 – August 7, 2026.

Location

• Cary HQ/Hybrid preferred but open to remote

Perks of the job 

• Work with (and learn from) the best. As a SAS intern, you’ll get face time with our top executives! 
• Free SAS programming training and certification.   
• At SAS, flexible work is the norm. Want to work remotely? That’s cool. Prefer a hybrid mix of sweatpants and in-person collaboration? That’s great, too.  
• We work hard, but we like to play hard, too. Enjoy hackathons, social events and other opportunities to connect + engage.  
• Your well-being matters, and that’s why we support all dimensions of your well-being by offering programs that reduce stress and distractions to help you stay healthy and productive.  This includes an on-site and remote Work/Life Center staffed by master’s level social workers and an Employee Assistance Program.

Diverse and inclusive    

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.    

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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Pay Transparency: The hourly rate for SAS internships is determined by the applicant’s year in school and the position they are hired into. Hourly rates range from $15 – $30 for associate’s/bachelor’s level positions and $29 - $49/hour for master’s/Ph.D positions. Internship roles are not eligible for bonus.

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