Intern, Finance

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview:

• Location: Immerse yourself in our innovative culture! This role requires a commitment of 4-5 days in-office per week at our facility in Garden Grove, CA as well as full-time hours (40 hours a week).
• Duration: 8 weeks for quarter or 15 weeks for semester (January 11 to April 30 OR January 11 to March 12)
• Relocation Support: A $1,000 relocation stipend is available for interns currently residing more than 50 miles from Garden Grove, CA.
• Compensation: Earn an hourly rate of $25-35 USD per hour

Job Summary :

We are seeking a highly analytical, data curious, and process oriented Business or Engineering student to join our Production Finance team. This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, Material Planning, and Logistics, supporting the company during a critical production ramp and product launch phase. You will work closely with cross functional partners to help build scalable financial processes, improve data visibility, and automate manual workflows.

This is an ideal role for someone who loves working with data, enjoys turning messy inputs into clean, repeatable processes, and is excited about improving how a factory runs through better financial insights.

What You'll Do :

Production Finance Reporting and Analytics

• Support financial reporting and analysis for Manufacturing, Quality, Material Planning, and Logistics functions.
• Assist in building and maintaining production focused financial models, including:
• Labor cost tracking, direct and indirect.
• Various other non-comp cost tracking.
• Inventory movements and material consumption.
• Freight and logistics cost analytics.
• Develop standardized tracking tools and templates to improve monthly close, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Help document and improve reporting processes related to:
• Actuals versus forecast and budget.
• Headcount and labor efficiency.
• Capital expenditures and other manufacturing related expenses.
• Partner with Accounting to help identify potential issues in data flow, accruals, and cost classification impacting cost of goods sold.

Process Improvement and Automation

• Identify manual, spreadsheet heavy workflows and help design more scalable, automated solutions.
• Improve data integrity and repeatability by standardizing inputs across systems such as NetSuite, Google Sheets, and NSAW (NetSuite Analytics Warehouse) dashboards.
• Assist with building and maintaining automation friendly trackers using formulas, structured logic, and clear documentation.
• Support the creation of dashboards and key performance indicators to enable faster, more informed decision making for production leaders.
• Document end to end processes and create clear, user friendly guides for repeatable workflows.

Systems and Tools Enablement

• Support the Production Finance team in using and improving financial systems and planning tools such as NetSuite, planning models, and reporting tools.
• Help organize process documentation, data definitions, and shared folder structures.
• Assist with data reconciliation between operational data and financial reporting outputs.

What You'll Bring :

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Industrial Engineering or a related field; an MBA or other related Masters Program (currently pursuing or completed) is highly preferred.
• Work authorized in the United States OR ability to obtain J-1/F-1 visa.
• Strong interest in manufacturing, operations, and data driven problem solving.
• Comfortable working with data utilizing Google Sheets or Excel, with curiosity to learn more advanced techniques. Python knowledge is highly desirable.
• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain data and findings simply.
• Self starter mentality, with the ability to work independently in a fast paced startup environment.
• Enjoys improving processes, building structure, and figuring out better ways to do things.
• Prior internship or work experience in finance, analytics, operations, or engineering is a plus but not required.
• Startup DNA: Highly self-motivated, proactive, and thrive working independently in a demanding, fast-paced startup environment. You possess a positive "can-do" attitude and are eager to wear many hats, seamlessly assisting sales and marketing teams across a variety of dynamic activities

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at View email address on aiapply.co.

Candidate Data Privacy

Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.