Project briefs · Finance & Accounting
Nationwide · Summer 2027
Financial Services Intern: a project built for this posting
Interns work in Nationwide Financial's retirement and protection business in roles spanning sales, analytics, project management, and operations. During the 12-week Columbus program they own a project in one business line and present research-based recommendations to senior leaders.
- Company
- Nationwide
- Posting title
- Summer 2027 Financial Services Internship
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Season
- Summer 2027
- Pay (as posted)
- $23 - $50/hour (national range for Nationwide internships)
- Majors named
- Business, Finance (financial services / insurance interest)
Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-16. Read the full posting ↗
What this role is really testing
The project
Nationwide Operational Efficiency Mini-Brief
A polished 6-slide deck that identifies one real inefficiency inside a financial services company (claims processing, agent onboarding, customer churn, etc.), analyzes publicly available data or industry benchmarks to size the problem, and delivers a prioritized recommendation with expected impact, mirroring exactly the intern project deliverable described in the posting. It demonstrates executive communication, structured thinking, and financial services awareness without requiring technical skills the role does not test.
- Pick one concrete operational problem in insurance or financial services (e.g., slow claims processing times, high call-center repeat contacts, or low digital self-service adoption). Spend 20 minutes reading 2–3 free sources, an industry report snippet, a news article, and a company press release or 10-K excerpt, to pull 3–5 real statistics that size the problem and establish why it matters to a firm like Nationwide.
- Build a 6-slide deck: (1) Executive Summary, one-sentence problem and recommendation, (2) Problem Definition, what is broken and for whom, (3) Data & Evidence, your 3–5 statistics visualized in a simple table or bar chart made in PowerPoint/Google Slides, (4) Root Cause, a 3-box fishbone or bullet list, (5) Recommendation, one prioritized action with estimated impact and a 90-day ownership timeline, (6) Risks & Next Steps, two risks and two concrete follow-on asks for leadership.
- Apply a clean, professional visual theme, consistent fonts, a neutral color palette with one accent color, and no slide exceeding five bullet points. Write a 3-sentence 'Analyst Note' in the slide notes of slide 1 explaining your source selection and any data limitations, showing the intellectual honesty a senior leader would expect from an intern presenting to an executive audience.
Free account. Provieo walks you through it and turns it into a page with a link you can put on your application. This posting comes with you.
Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. For roles like this one, Provieo builds the project as a live case-study page: slides, tables and findings you fill in. You bring the thinking.
Where did this project come from?
Provieo read the Nationwide posting and generated it on 2026-10-16. If you paste the same posting yourself you may get a different project, so two applicants don't show up with the same one.
Is Provieo connected to Nationwide?
No. This is an independent project idea based on a public posting. It does not guarantee an interview.