Role Purpose
Overview of Finance Development Program Corning’s summer internship experience is rich with hands-on learning. You’ll live, work, and experience the communities in which Corning operates, while building on-the-job skills. Interns are expected to deliver results against our business and financial objectives, applying knowledge and practices both independently and as a team. Working with a supervisor, you will gain work experience while interacting with key technologies, subject matter experts and leaders. The purpose of the Finance Intern Program is to raise the bar on talent by strengthening our pipeline for entry level roles for immediate and future needs.
Program Benefits:
- Competitive salaries
- Housing assistance
- Travel reimbursement
Intern Activities:
- Social and networking events
- Volunteer opportunities
- Community Involvement
Sample Job Placements:
- Finance Intern in Corning business unit
- Finance Treasury Intern
- Finance Tax Intern
- Finance Technical Accounting Intern
- Finance Shared Services Intern
Requirements
- Working towards a Bachelor’s degree in: Accounting, Economics, and/or Finance or equivalent
- Strong computer skills; proficiency in Excel / PowerPoint required
- Sarbanes-Oxley knowledge required
- To be considered for an internship at Corning Incorporated, you must be actively enrolled at a college or university as a full-time student seeking a bachelor’s degree or higher.
- Must be available for 10 weeks during Summer 2026 (May-August 2026) with a graduation date of December 2026 or later
- Be interested in working for Corning, Inc after graduation, if presented with a full-time job opportunity.
- Be willing to work at the posted job location
Qualifications
- Working towards a Master’s degree in related area not required but desirable
- Certifications desirable (e.g. CPA, CMA, CFA, etc.)
- Six Sigma Green belt/Black belt certification – a plus
- General cost and accounting knowledge
- Experience in a Finance/ Accounting with class or internship experience
- Attention to detail, accuracy, process-oriented and organized
- Excellent communication (including presentation) skills
- Excellent problem solving capability
- Data driven problem solving capability
- Ability to work independently
- Drive towards continuous process improvement
- Interest in working in different Finance function areas
- Comfortable working on their own and in groups
- Inquisitive and curious
- Personally driven and self-aware
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong PowerPoint skill
- Enrolled in an undergraduate program for Accounting, Business, or Finance
- Minimum GPA of 3.5
Desired Skills
Technical Skills:
- Data analytics software experience (ACL, IDEA, etc.) desired
- PeopleSoft and/or SAP experience desired
- Cost accounting/manufacturing experience desired
Soft Skills:
- Partnership, Collaboration, & Influence
- Demonstrated collaborative and business partnership approach
- Actively build relationships, networks and systems with others
- Actively listens
- Comfortable challenging supplied inputs and questioning existing processes
- Analytical & Strategic Thinking skills
- Problem solving and strategic thinking skills to dig deeper and develop risk based analytic solutions to enhance the control environment and audit procedures
- Inquisitive and curious
- Creative problem solving
- Talent development
- Addresses performance shortfalls and actively works on skills development with self and/or team via timely, balanced, open discussions
- Personally driven and self-aware
- Adaptability
- Customer service
- Monitor, maintain and improve systems to proactively meet customer needs and provide added value
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, work proactively and independently in a fast changing environment
- Drive for results
- Monitor, maintain and improve systems to support continuous improvement to drive efficiency, effectiveness and compliance
This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
