Paint Shop Finance Intern (Fall 2026)

A perfect car is the product of the perfect process. Production at the BMW Group is highly automated and carried out using the most modern facilities. But it doesn’t run itself. To ensure that driving pleasure is built in from the beginning, means people working with passion and pride. Independently and as part of a motivated team, they perform extraordinary things every day and contribute to the fulfilling of automobile dreams.

Description:

• Support processes for both production control and financial steering to determine improvements and automation of data gathering, reporting, and cost efficiency tracking.
• Create financial reports that will be used by management to make decisions in the planning and target setting process.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions to gather data source information and determine automation opportunities for financial and headcount data.
• Analyze financial data to look for trends, root causes, and propose measures for cost reduction.
• Support with inner-year month end activities and long-range financial planning.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze historical financial data to identify trends, bring transparency, and ultimately identify measures for improvement and cost reduction.
• Create automated reporting tools in Power BI or similar systems to continuously track and bring transparency to key General Ledger budget categories as well as headcount, which can be used across the technology and even shared to other areas of the plant.
• Create forecast and target templates to prepare for the next inner-year forecast activity and prepare for next year’s target setting.
• Create Power BI reports to quickly show and report the financial trends and provide the ability to quickly respond to negative trends.
• Create Power BI reports or optimization to track headcount needs in a consistent manner.
• Work with other steering functions in the plant to identify common ways to report and steer the financials.

Qualifications:

• Focus on financial business, business related or production control discipline.
• Good communication skills
• Enhanced computer skills (MS Office Applications) with the willingness to learn new systems such as Power BI
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manage large amounts of data including creating reports to provide trends and transparency
• Possess a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (not just in major)
• Have enrolled student status at an accredited four-year college or university in the United States.
• Completed at least 30 credit hours at time of application.
•  Ability to work full-time on-site (40 hours / week).
• Transfer students must have a GPA from current university.
•  MUST ATTACH A COPY OF UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
• Complete and pass a substance abuse test before the work term.
• THE WORK TERM DATES ARE Aug 10th – Dec 11th, 2026.

BMW Manufacturing Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of BMW MC to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.