Financial Analyst, Commercial Strategy

Public Relations Intern (Summer 2025)

 

Weber Shandwick’s West Coast is seeking a smart, passionate and diverse thinker to help us solve and create industry-defining work for a range of consumer and health clients. Our internship offers an opportunity to shape data-driven, creative, integrated communications solutions while working closely with a team of dynamic professionals.

 

From creative brainstorming to day-to-day execution, Weber Shandwick’s Interns form the foundation of a talented team that generates groundbreaking, award-winning programs. Plus you’ll work on campaigns for iconic brands and companies you likely encounter every single day.

 

What you’ll do all day: 

• Create: Craft written communications including media materials and compelling social content 
• Research: Analyze brands using various resources
• Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
• Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc.
• Monitor: Track brands in traditional and social media 

 

What we’re looking for in a candidate: 

• Thinking: Do it out of the box. Actually, it’s best if you’re wholly unfamiliar with the concept of boxes
• Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly 
• Digital: Know all the old school and the latest social media platforms, what brands are doing on them and what they should do next
• Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires and multi-task. Work fast, and work well
• Detail-Oriented: Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work are critical
• Technical: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Familiarity with platforms like Cision, Muckrack, Meltwater, Talkwalker, Brandwatch, and /or Quid a plus
• Dynamic: You must be able to work in a fast-paced agency environment and juggle tasks
• Spark: Understand what sets you apart

 

What you’ll get from us: 

• Buddy: All new hires are paired with a buddy dedicated to making your time with us amazing
• Built-In Mentorship: You’ll be invited to panels and workshops to learn from the greatest in the industry
• A possible career: Internships have the possibility of growing into a full-time position
• A paycheck! Interns are paid hourly 

 

Requirements: 

• The ideal candidate must be a college graduate by the start of the internship or have demonstrated transferrable skills
• Must be available to work 40 hours a week from June to August

 

[California/Washington] Salary range: $20.00 – $20.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Who We Are

United Minds is a global change consultancy that helps Fortune 500 clients transform their organizations, with a particular focus on the people side of change.

What Makes Us Different

At United Minds, our purpose is to make business more human – because we believe our collective futures depend on a human-powered world. We do this by helping leaders decide, design, develop and drive the future of their organization in partnership with people, and for people, using business intelligence to inform human-centered change experiences.

Partnering with some of the world’s biggest organizations, we deliver impactful, enduring change. Our core services include organizational transformation (M&A, spinoffs, restructures, marketing and digital transformation), leadership alignment, talent strategy development, culture change and employee experience. 

Our values – Big Thinking; Little Details; Giant Heart – inform our work… and the way we work with our client partners. We thrive on bringing original ideas to the table but know this only comes alive in the details. And most importantly, we do this with our whole heart – giving ourselves permission to care for each other, for the work, for our clients and ourselves.

What’s more, as part of The Weber Shandwick Collective, we’re able to tap into award-winning creative capabilities, the latest in AI thinking, and research, data and analytics to supercharge our solutions for clients.

Our Growth Ambition

We have big, bold growth ambitions at UM. And in a world defined by “extreme change”, we’re uniquely positioned to help our clients navigate the myriad of challenges they face. Our agile, innovation-first mindset means we are constantly incubating new offerings such as stakeholder fluency and narrative intelligence to ensure we’re as future-oriented as the companies we propel forward.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Consultant to join our North America team who can lead client-consulting projects, contribute to thought leadership, and participate in new business. 

Responsibilities

Trusted Client Partner

• Act as trusted advisors to C-suite clients, providing senior counsel across any and all of UM’s core offerings (change management, culture change, employee experience, leadership impact, employee engagement and multi-stakeholder insights)
• Role model exceptional client experience and counsel, building strong senior client relationships
• Embrace ambiguity and steer teams to navigate complex client situations
• Embody disruptive creativity and an eagerness to explore unconventional approaches to deliver innovative client solutions
• Ensure that the broad UM vision for a client account is cascaded to integrated teams and all internal partners within the Weber Shandwick Collective

Account and Business Management Expert       

• Partner with Senior Principals to design the project team structure and organically grow the business – identifying new opportunities and proactively developing client relationships
• Tracks and reports revenue by account to Finance and Leadership for revenue recognition and forecasting
• Review SOWs and project budgets
• Identify resourcing needs/gaps/opportunities to solve with UM’s VP, Operations

Operational Steward

• Oversee the overall fiscal health of the practice/client to maximize revenue goals and minimize investment time

• Own significant revenue under management and manage target billability

• Negotiate complex scopes and agreements with clients and required parties (Finance, Legal, Procurement, etc.)
• Regularly assess status of staffing and team assignments; manage account staffing and overall utilization metrics by practice/account

 

Talent and Culture Cultivator

• Exemplify our values of Big Thinking, Little Details and Giant Heart, and bringing them to life into relationships with clients and colleague at all levels
• Role models and fosters collaborative and supportive relationships with team members and counterparts in other practices
• Integrate junior staff into workflow scenarios; possesses the ability to delegate tasks while remaining accountable for outcomes
• Supervise junior staff by motivating, coaching, consistently providing feedback

Our Ideal Candidate

• At least 8-10 years’ of consulting experience working in human capital and organizational transformation in large, complex, multinational organizations.

• Excellent team and client management skills
• Ability to professionally interface with and influence clients
• Embraces ambiguity and approaches challenges with curiosity, applying past experiences but not limiting solutions to them, to continuously improve and innovate what we do for clients and our own business alike
• Emphasizes attention to detail and quality, while working with a sense of urgency
• Shows exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors
• Exhibits a strong commitment to agency and personal growth
• Master’s Degree in Organizational Development or related field, and/or change management certification such as Prosci are a plus

NYC Salary range: $200.00 – $200.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

United Minds is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. United Minds recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Financial Analyst 

Weber Shandwick’s office is seeking a Financial Analyst.  The person in this position will play an important role in the firm’s revenue recognition process, and will report to the Regional Finance Director.  

Duties include:

• Manage the job setup process to ensure job codes are setup timely and in accordance with the SOW
• Perform month end close process
• Ensure account managers stay in compliance with client and agency policies including revenue recognition, job set-up, billing, time entry and accounts payable.
• Analyze time data for accuracy as well as performing time transfers as needed
• Help Process Vendor Invoices
• Review and Check client facing and internal budget trackers for correctness and accuracy
• Guide financial process by establishing, monitoring and enforcing policies and procedures 
• Review and Reconcile company credit card account statements
• Manage Intercompany Office Agreements (IOA) process for timeliness and accuracy between offices.
• Review monthly non-bill audit and process transfers
• Responsible for both new vendor and new client set-up through respective systems (Ariba/Range/SAP)
• Ad-hoc requests, special projects and process improvements as needed

Qualifications include:

• 1+ years’ experience as an accountant/finance professional or recent college graduate
• BA/BS degree in Finance preferred
• Experience operating in a SOX compliant environment is a plus – 
• Experience working in a client service/agency environment 
• Attention to detail and the ability to meet reporting deadlines
• Revenue recognition experience/knowledge
• Very strong control skills
• Excellent teamwork and project management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of Hyperion and be proficient in Microsoft Office (with an expertise in Excel)

 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• RRSP (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• MyDays – Flexible time off
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave Policy

 

Salary range: $55,000.00 – $65,000.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

 

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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