2025 Summer Intern: Associate Business Analyst

At a Glance

• You're a motivated rising junior or senior student with a 3.0 GPA or higher seeking a degree in one of the following areas listed below from an accredited college or university:
  • Computer Science
  • Information Technology
  • Business
• This is a learning-intensive program designed to give you essential business insights and hands-on experience in your field of choice. It's a full-time, 10-week commitment from May 28, 2025 through August 1, 2025.
• Benefits include professional development sessions, networking opportunities, and mentorship.

The Spectrum Internship Experience
You have clear aspirations and are seeking a summer internship program that will help you meet them. Find it at Spectrum, named one of the 2023 Top 100 Internship Programs in the United States by WayUp and Yello.

Our internships are designed to provide:

• Opportunities to gain new skills and elevate the ones you already have, all in a robust and forward-thinking business setting.
• First-rate, hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry.
• Opportunities to connect you with people who can give you a better understanding of the industry and help you accomplish real goals you can add to your resume, this includes assigning you a formal mentor and interactions with senior executives.

What you can expect in this role

As a Spectrum Intern, you'll be essential to two teams - your respective department and your Intern peer group. Department and team-focused projects account for about 80% of your schedule. You'll spend the other 20% on professional development sessions and networking activities, including the Kickoff Conference on May 28th, webinars, community service, cross-functional project, and final presentations.

Internship responsibilities may include

• Assist to gather, refine, and validate end user business requirements, interdependencies, potential risks, and issues using all available techniques, including interviews, user stories/requirements, prototyping, data analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Assist in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and/or business processes to meet user requirements, change requests, enhancements and/or issues.
• Maintain supporting functional and technical documentation.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal users and articulate and distinguish user requests from the underlying need.
• Assist with documenting project scope, deliverables and milestones, business process design (or redesign) and documentation as needed.
• Assist with monitoring project progress which encompasses requirement elicitation, system / port design, user / functional requirements documentation, test plan /scenario creation and final defect tracking.
• Assist in creation of process and business flows using Visio or other tools by collaborating with the development team and BU end users.
• Assist with unit testing, user acceptance testing, building test scripts and scenarios, defect logging and regression testing.
• Assist in creating and reviewing system reference guides, training materials, end user communication and business process diagrams to support change management.
• Stay abreast of best practices and changing functionalities in the various systems to develop domain knowledge and assist in developing recommendations for enhancements or changes.
• Understand the interaction of data between the various P2P applications and ERP.
• Ensure effective communication with all areas of the enterprise that impacts the scope, risk and resources of work effort being managed.
• Communicate using written and verbal skills, build strong relationships, and work closely with P2P support and internal IT to resolve system, data related and/or workflow issues.
• Assist with training system users, building training guides and videos.

Here's what it takes to get started

Required qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled in an accredited College or University completing a Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Degree
• Must have at least a 3.0 GPA or greater in current program
• Ability to travel locally to Spectrum Intern development events and activities throughout the program
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without restrictions or need for future sponsorship

Preferred qualifications

• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Business/systems Analysis, Database Warehouse knowledge
• Strong attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Analytical skills
• Collaboration skills
• Communication skills - verbal and written
• Drives results through effective project and time management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access