Corporate FP&A Intern

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you'll find your place here. We value winning together-while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.


We want people who are passionate high performing team players who can take new challenges and go the extra mile.

This internship offers a front-row seat to the financial and operational mechanics of a global, remote-first technology organization, allowing you to help shape how we invest in our most valuable asset-our people. By bridging the gap between workforce data systems and financial strategy, the work you do here will directly optimize our corporate planning ecosystem and lay the groundwork for a highly impactful career.

The Role: We are looking for an analytical, detail-oriented data enthusiast to support our data integration and forecasting pipelines. Reporting to the FP&A / Workforce Planning Manager, you will be a key player in ensuring data integrity, tracking resource allocations, and delivering actionable insights to stakeholders across the company.
What You'll Do:

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual workforce planning activities , including budgeting and forecasting of payroll and employee-related expenses, in order to deliver highly accurate operational spending baselines for corporate leadership.
• Maintain the employee roster and position planning data models used for financial forecasting in order to provide corporate stakeholders with a dependable and structured headcount baseline.
• Assist in analyzing budget-to-actual variances related to salaries, bonuses, benefits, equity compensation, and other workforce expenses in order to protect fiscal health and identify systemic spending trends.
• Monitor, maintain, and validate data integrations between Workday and Adaptive Planning in order to safeguard data quality, resolve system exceptions, and ensure forecasting precision across internal systems.
• Perform data quality audits and structural reconciliations of employee, organizational, and compensation records in order to eliminate reporting discrepancies and guarantee platform integrity.
• Create and maintain reports, dashboards, and data models using Google Sheets and Adaptive Planning in order to provide Finance and HR stakeholders with real-time, actionable business intelligence.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, HR, and People Analytics teams to gather requirements and document workflows in order to improve process automation and functional efficiency.

What You'll Add:
Technical Breadth:

• Experience with corporate finance concepts , including a baseline understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or resource allocation.
• A deep understanding of data systems and data models , ideally with exposure to or an interest in enterprise tools like Workday and Adaptive Planning.
• Advanced proficiency in constructing analytical worksheets , utilizing intermediate to advanced Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel functions to audit and manipulate large datasets seamlessly.

The "Human" Element:

Excellent organizational and communication skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, rigorous environment while building trust across functional lines.
Growth Mindset:

A desire to learn, an appetite for feedback, and a "leave it better than you found it" attitude.
Compensation Range:

• $30 - $32 hourly rate

*This is a remote role

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Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• We innovate with purpose. You'll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you'll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.