Investment Operations Intern

October 9, 2024

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

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We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Are you seeking an opportunity to gain outstanding experience with a reputable firm in KC?

As an Investment Operations Intern, you will be brought on to our team to learn about American Century Investments and the financial services industry through an initial formal training program and continual training and mentoring throughout the program. Interns will then apply that knowledge to meaningful opportunities and projects.

In this internship, you will...

Collaborate with teams across the Investment Operations department including Investment Accounting, Security Valuations, Financial Reporting, Tax, Trade Ops, Corporate Actions, Product Event Management, Investment Performance, Investment Reporting and Transformation.
Gain real-world experience by completing a broad range of daily and periodic processes.
Learn about key risks and controls within Investment Operations.
Increase efficiency and reduce risk within Investment Operations by finding opportunities to improve processes and implementing solutions using low-code development tools.
Contribute to key department projects and initiatives.

Here are some attributes that we are looking for in our next intern:

Model the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors – Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitive Drive
Passion for gaining experience within the finance industry and a strive to learn about capital markets, market participants, investment vehicles and Investment Operations processes.
Effective communicator, both verbally and written, whose style can be described as clear, concise, and detailed.
Self-motivated person who can work independently but who also understands the value of being part of a successful team. Flexible and adapts to a constantly evolving environment.

Here's what will make you standout:

You are a current Junior or Senior Undergraduate student, currently studying Accounting, Finance, or Information Technology
Experience using Data Visualization Tools, Low-code tools and/or Python.

Here's Why You Should Choose ACI:

Our interns receive competitive pay! As well as 401k eligibility for contributions
We offer a Mentor Program: a designated mentor will be assigned to you during your time with us to provide career coaching and mentorship
Access to Business Resource Groups that you can ally and participate with (Diversity, Women in Finance, LGBTQ+, Emerging Professionals, and more)
Casual dress code - you can be comfortable and express your unique self
A robust social and philanthropic calendar of events hosted just for interns!

Internship Structure:

10 Week Program
40 hours a week, between 8am-5pm CST
Location: Kansas City, MO

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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