Top Internships in Chicago, IL

Supports the Group Benefits sales organization through training, customer meeting participation, technology exposure, and assigned sales duties. The intern will collaborate on a capstone project, present findings to leadership, develop business-to-business sales skills, and build professional networks. Successful completion may lead to an interview for a sales trainee position.

Supports the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team through workflow documentation, process improvement, employee networking group administration, inclusive communications, and community impact initiatives. The intern will identify opportunities to reduce manual work, help develop newsletters and storytelling campaigns, assist nonprofit partnerships, and explore AI solutions. The role is a 12-week hybrid summer internship for actively enrolled undergraduate or graduate students.

Paid 10-week Python software engineering internship on a DevOps team. Responsibilities include developing Python scripts, optimizing tooling, supporting CI/CD, collaborating with senior technologists, deploying solutions, and exploring AI-driven automation for log analysis, anomaly detection, and alerting in a trading infrastructure environment.

Provides part-time, on-site IT and desktop support for employees in a trading environment. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware, software, Microsoft Office, phones, printers, and enterprise AI tools; configuring workstations and applications; managing user accounts; and maintaining IT inventory. The intern will receive mentorship while applying classroom knowledge and learning help desk, hardware, networking, and AI-assisted troubleshooting skills.

Supports change releases, deployments, troubleshooting, monitoring, log analysis, and issue escalation for trading systems. Develops scripts to automate tasks and uses generative AI and LLMs to improve troubleshooting, log analysis, anomaly detection, and proactive monitoring. This 10-week paid internship includes mentorship, training, and project work supporting a systems reliability engineering team.

Supports transfer pricing and global tax projects through financial modeling, tax research, economic translation, financial statement analysis, and cross-border compliance work. Collaborates with tax professionals, contributes to client assignments, and develops foundational skills in international tax, intercompany pricing, and business structuring.

Supports tax technology consulting teams through research, analysis, client deliverable preparation, software and product innovation, and tax compliance optimization. The intern learns PwC practices, collaborates on client projects, explores global tax regulations and strategies, and contributes to technology-enabled solutions while developing foundational consulting and technology delivery skills.

Ten-week paid software engineering internship developing, testing, and deploying C++ solutions for a proprietary trading platform. Interns work with large datasets, network programming, multithreaded applications, AI coding tools, and cross-functional technologists and researchers. The role includes mentorship, complex problem-solving, collaboration, and opportunities for full-time employment after graduation.

Build data pipelines and relational data models using Python and SQL; clean operational data, support scenario analysis, and create dashboards for PMO leadership. Explore LLMs and machine learning for text analysis and data-quality automation. Gain production experience with testing, documentation, maintainable code, and data-driven decision support in a trading environment.

Finance/accounting interns support FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, account reconciliations, tax, sourcing, internal audit, controllership, and shared-service process improvement. Responsibilities include analyzing financial data, preparing business cases, supporting acquisitions and capital investments, and researching accounting standards. Interns work on a 10–12 week project while networking and developing professional skills in a hybrid Northbrook or Chicago office environment.

Supports renewable energy advisory and independent engineering projects for wind, solar, and battery energy storage systems. Responsibilities include resource assessment, energy production modeling, technical due diligence, data analysis, financial model input validation, project document review, technical writing, research, QA/QC, and potential site inspection support. Interns may also develop analytical tools, automate repetitive processes, and assist with construction monitoring and renewable energy project financing assessments.

Supports financial due diligence for mergers and acquisitions by analyzing financial statements, earnings quality, working capital, business performance, valuations, forecasts, and financial models. Assists with transaction risk assessment, client reports, presentations, and corporate finance planning while learning PwC advisory methodologies and collaborating with experienced professionals.

Supports strategic third-party delivery partnerships through delivery and marketplace data analysis, operational performance monitoring, reporting, and business reviews. Identifies trends, recurring issues, and improvement opportunities; documents findings and develops recommendations. Collaborates with internal stakeholders and external delivery providers, participates in meetings, and presents analytical insights. The internship also includes mentorship, leadership development, networking, and project-based learning.

Supports Cyber Defense activities including reviewing workflows for automation opportunities, assisting with security monitoring and analysis, and helping integrate security tools. The intern will gain exposure to cyber defense operations, incident response, and security technology while contributing to process improvement and technical reporting. This is a 12-week seasonal summer internship in a hybrid Chicago work environment.

Supports retail media product management by managing users, submitting feature requests, creating knowledge base materials, auditing competitor documentation, and recommending platform improvements. Collaborates with internal technology teams and external vendors, contributes to roadmaps and integrations, and communicates product information to technical and business audiences. The internship includes project work, mentorship, leadership exposure, and professional development.

Develop and configure solutions in the Archer platform supporting Controls Assurance and Risk Management. Assess the current state of PolicyTech and Apparity, document GRC tools, and apply knowledge of software development, change management, system administration, quality assurance, databases, workflow automation, governance, access control, debugging, performance tuning, and requirements documentation.

Supports quantitative risk model performance monitoring through portfolio backtesting, metric implementation, documentation, analytics, and automation. Develops Python and Pandas scripts, writes SQL queries, assists with data analysis and visualization, participates in code reviews, and supports monitoring enhancements for new products and regulatory governance activities.

Supports quantitative risk management through model specification, impact analysis, P&L decomposition, backtesting exceedance attribution, performance monitoring, annual validation, and parameter review. The intern works with quantitative analysts on model development, monitoring, and research involving derivatives, stochastic calculus, statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and financial risk models.

Supports internal audit and validation engagements through audit planning, fieldwork, control testing, process walkthrough documentation, findings documentation, and reporting. The intern reviews business-provided support, participates in meetings, and coordinates with engagement leads and supervisors. Assignments may cover cybersecurity and information technology audit areas.

Supports HRIS and people analytics projects, including Workday report standardization, data dictionary development, employee lifecycle mapping, HR metrics documentation, Hub optimization, report consolidation, and employee data administration. Collaborates with HR stakeholders while managing multiple projects and identifying process and data improvements.

Supports the Enterprise Project Management Office through project phase-gate compliance reviews, work request queue maintenance, project tool updates, schedule and change-request support, and analysis of EPMO control data. The intern reviews dashboards, assigns tickets, analyzes metrics such as time in status and escalations, and assists with ad hoc activities. This is a 12-week hybrid summer internship for enrolled undergraduate or graduate students.

Supports OCC’s Legal department through ad hoc projects, legal research, analysis, writing, and presentation development. The intern may work on regulatory, commercial, litigation, and corporate governance matters while assisting attorneys with legal processes and advice for OCC stakeholders. This is a 12-week seasonal summer internship for currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students, specifically law students who have completed one or two years of law school.

Supports internal audit and validation engagements involving financial risk management and model risk management. Responsibilities include audit planning, fieldwork, control testing, process walkthrough documentation, assessing control design and operating effectiveness, documenting findings, reviewing business support, attending meetings, and coordinating with engagement leads and supervisors.

Supports quantitative risk management through development, testing, monitoring, and improvement of financial risk models used for margin, clearing fund sizing, and stress testing. Projects may include evaluating model assumptions, creating sensitivity metrics, researching advanced methodologies for equity price and volatility modeling, and improving Python code libraries. The intern collaborates with quantitative researchers, model validation teams, technology staff, and business stakeholders.

Seasonal intern supporting Model Risk Management by analyzing risk themes with statistical, econometric, and machine-learning methods; automating discrepancy and root-cause reporting; reviewing model remediation; and evaluating option implied-volatility modeling. The role requires financial mathematics knowledge, programming in R or Python, data analysis, and familiarity with derivatives pricing, stochastic calculus, statistics, probability, and linear algebra.