Engagement Financial Advisors:
The Engagement Financial Advisor (EFA) Practice is a client-driven organization, partnering as trusted business advisors to champion operational excellence, lead finance transformation efforts, and optimize financial performance for Deloitte. EFAs are financial and business operations advisors and are experts on Deloitte engagement economics and financial metrics. EFAs add value during all stages of the engagement lifecycle, from proposal phase to engagement close.
EFAs assist with account reporting, provide engagement pricing support, and other tasks tailored to the needs of each account and project team. In a sense, EFAs serve as the Chief Financial Officer for each engagement. It’s an exciting time to join the EFA Practice as we continue to grow our team in response to unprecedented demand for our services across Deloitte.
The EFA practice sits within Deloitte Services LP, which ultimately provides services per client need amongst Deloitte’s four business areas.
Work You’ll Do
As a Summer Intern, Engagement Financial Advisor (EFA), you will team and collaborate with other EFAs to help assist Deloitte engagement managers in maintaining compliance with clients’ policies, perform internal financial analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost variance analysis in addition to managing engagements’ billing and receivables process. In addition, you will:
- Monitor engagement performance and determine improvement areas by analyzing key performance indicators
- On any given assignment, you may help to improve internal processes and directly communicate strategies and analytical results with your EFA team to help keep engagements on track and within the scope of cost
- Your summer will conclude with a presentation outlining your networking and client service experience in front of a panel of EFA Senior Leadership
Qualifications
- Junior standing in a full-time academic program in one of these related majors: Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Management
- All candidates must be willing and able to travel as needed; dependent on client staffing, travel is typically limited
- Solid understanding of fundamental accounting and finance principles
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including excellent presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a team
- Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to "think outside the box" while identifying problems and developing creative solutions
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
- The start date for this position will be in 2021
Preferred: Strong academic track record (minimum GPA of 3.2 preferred)
How You’ll Grow
As a new EFA Intern, your summer will provide you with education, experience, and exposure to opportunities that will help you build your future with us. At the start, you’ll have the chance to attend our new hire school for Engagement Financial Advisors. There you’ll begin to build your network of EFA colleagues, better understand your role, and develop the knowledge and skills that are critical to your success. Along the way, you’ll also have access to mentoring, counselling, and training opportunities to help foster and accelerate your development of new skills and capabilities.
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center.