Business Analyst Intern - LAC Group

Location: USA - NY - New York

For 30 years, LAC Group has been dedicated to helping enterprise clients in law, government, business, media/entertainment, and education to manage and leverage information and content. Utilizing a team of highly-skilled consultants, librarians, analysts, researchers and archivists, the company has a track record of delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions in core integrated areas – Research & Intelligence, Managed Services, Spend Management, Content & Archive, and Talent.

LAC Spend Management, a division of LAC Group, is an expense reduction company that performs financial audits for clients to optimize and reduce their indirect spend. We are transforming the way our client manages their spend with technology and the art of vendor & contract management. We differentiate ourselves from other expense reduction consultants by the depth of our knowledge in market experience and data access.

Do you get excited about big data, linking and visualizing information to meet a company’s business objectives? Are you passionate about metrics and how this translates into a company’s strategic business decisions? If so, you may be a good fit for LAC Spend Management’s Business Analyst internship. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to gain valuable experience where they can make an impact for an organization dedicated to bring more value to our client’s bottom line. The intern will work with our team in LAC's New York, NY office.

This position will deliver value on business related projects with a focus on data analysis, data manipulation, and data cleaning in Excel. LAC Spend Management is looking for a self-starter to support our client projects as an Excel guru using data to drive smart business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex data sets and analyze business needs to develop business plans and metrics to make recommendations that drive strategic decisions
• Develop dashboards to empower team members with information
• Use creative analysis skills to develop insights into complex questions
• Work with business intelligence tools and be comfortable accessing and working with data from multiple sources, and passionately partner with the business to identify strategic opportunities and deliver results.
• Identify cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions

Qualifications

• 3rd or 4th year student enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program
• Advanced Excel user
• Analytical and quantitative skills
• Comfortable using databases with a large-scale data set
• Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and concepts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Preferred Majors: Business, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Accounting, or similar field

LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action Employer who values diversity in the workplace.