2027 Finance Cancer Diagnostics Intern
Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Why finance in a cancer diagnostics business?
What they are checking: Whether they connect finance work to the business and patients, not just a generic finance interest.
Tell me about a time you found an error in a spreadsheet or data set.
What they are checking: Whether they check their work and others' carefully, since small errors spread in finance models.
Describe a time you presented numbers to someone who was not a finance person.
What they are checking: Whether they can make numbers meaningful to business partners, which is half of the job.
Tell me about a time you led or organized something outside of class.
What they are checking: Whether they show the leadership potential the internship program looks for.
What would you do
Costs came in higher than budget this month. How would you start explaining why?
What they are checking: Whether they think in terms of variance analysis, breaking the gap into volume, price and timing.
You have two managers asking for work due the same day. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they communicate early and ask for priorities instead of quietly missing one deadline.
About the work
Walk me through the three financial statements and how they connect.
What they are checking: Whether they have the core accounting basics an intern needs to start contributing.
How would you explain the difference between a budget, a forecast and actual results?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the planning cycle that most finance intern projects support.
What Excel skills are you most confident in, and what is something you built with them?
What they are checking: Whether they can use lookups, pivots and clean formulas on real projects.
What do you know about how a diagnostic test company makes money?
What they are checking: Whether they have done some homework on the business model behind the numbers.
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