Health & Benefits Financial Summer Intern - Central Market - College Program 2027
Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Why are you interested in health benefits cost work for employers rather than another area of finance?
What they are checking: Whether they understand what this group does and have a real reason to want it beyond a general internship.
Tell me about a time you found a mistake in your own work after you'd handed it in.
What they are checking: Whether they own errors quickly and honestly, which matters when numbers go to clients making budget decisions.
Tell me about a group project where you had to explain numbers to people who weren't comfortable with them.
What they are checking: Whether they can make financial findings understandable, a core part of client-facing benefits work.
The posting stresses integrity and transparent business practices. Tell me about a time you had to do the right thing when it was inconvenient.
What they are checking: Their ethical judgment in a setting where client trust depends on honest numbers.
What would you do
A senior consultant gives you a task with almost no instructions and then goes into meetings all day. What do you do?
What they are checking: How they balance figuring things out alone with asking good questions at the right time.
About the work
If an employer's health costs rose 9 percent last year, what questions would you ask to figure out why?
What they are checking: Whether they think in drivers like enrollment, utilization, unit cost and large claims instead of jumping to one answer.
How comfortable are you in Excel? Walk me through the most complex spreadsheet you've built.
What they are checking: Their real hands-on skill level, since most of the internship's analysis and projections happen in spreadsheets.
What does it mean to project next year's health plan costs, and what would make that projection wrong?
What they are checking: Whether they grasp that projections rest on trend and assumptions, and can name the risks in those assumptions.
How would you check that a large claims data file is complete and accurate before using it?
What they are checking: Whether they instinctively validate data with totals, counts and outliers before building analysis on top of it.
What do you know about the difference between fully insured and self-funded employer plans?
What they are checking: Basic awareness of how employers fund benefits, which shapes almost every analysis this group runs.
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