Finance Intern (Summer Internship 6/7/2027 - 8/13/2027)
Posted Sep 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
Apply at Brookfield Properties
Likely interview questions for this role
Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.
About your past
Why retail real estate, and why a mall owner-operator like GGP rather than a bank or a fund?
What they are checking: Whether they have a real reason to be in this industry, which predicts how hard they will work on an unglamorous project.
Tell me about a time you built a spreadsheet model that someone else had to use. How did you make it easy to follow?
What they are checking: Whether their work can be checked and reused by a manager, which matters more than clever formulas.
Tell me about a time you found a mistake in your own numbers after you had already shared them.
What they are checking: Whether they own errors quickly and openly, which is what a finance team needs to trust an intern's work.
Tell me about a group project where a teammate was not pulling their weight. How did you handle it?
What they are checking: How they handle shared work with peers, since the final presentation is delivered alongside other interns.
What would you do
You will finish the summer presenting your project to the executive leadership team. How would you cut ten weeks of analysis down to a few slides?
What they are checking: Whether they can lead with the answer and choose what to leave out when speaking to senior leaders.
Your mentor gives you a project with a vague goal and then gets busy for a week. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they take initiative and make reasonable progress without either stalling or wandering far off track.
About the work
If a retailer wants a ten-year lease with a big tenant improvement allowance, how would you start to judge whether the deal makes economic sense?
What they are checking: Whether they can think about rent, upfront costs and time value together instead of looking at one number in isolation.
Walk me through how net operating income is calculated for a shopping center.
What they are checking: Basic fluency with the core metric the finance team uses to value and compare every property in the portfolio.
What is the difference between NPV and IRR, and when could they point you to different answers?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the tools behind reviewing economics well enough to know where each one can mislead.
What trends do you think are shaping the future of malls and retail centers right now?
What they are checking: Whether they have looked at the business they want to join and can talk about it with some real thought.
Practice this interview out loud.
Offer builds a real interview for this exact role at Brookfield Properties from your resume and this job description, asks the questions one at a time, and tells you what landed. The first one is free.
Practice this out loudThe full job description
As published by Brookfield Properties.
Apply at Brookfield Properties