Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
This position supports the Ankura Construction Disputes & Advisory Business Group, one of five practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm.
Practice Overview
Our team advises the nation's leading health systems on their most critical capital and real estate investments. We help leaders mitigate risk and execute complex projects, from planning and design to financing and implementation. Our work helps clients deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right cost, directly impacting patient experience and population health.
Role Overview
As a Summer Intern, you will work as part of a project team to turn complex healthcare, financial, operational, and market data into insights that support major capital and real estate decisions. This is a hands-on opportunity for a strong analytical problem solver who is interested in building models, developing clear visualizations, and communicating findings that help healthcare leaders act decisively.
Build analytical foundations: Support data integration, validation, financial analysis, and modeling under the guidance of experienced team members.
Work with critical healthcare data: Analyze patient volumes, financial performance, utilization metrics, service line data, and other information needed to understand client challenges and opportunities.
Deliver clarity from complexity: Help translate analyses into dashboards, models, and presentations that provide clear, data-driven answers for client teams and executive audiences.
Why This Internship is a Career Accelerator
Unmatched exposure: Contribute to projects across health systems, including strategic planning, capital investment, real estate, and portfolio performance engagements.
Direct impact: Produce analysis that informs decisions affecting how and where communities receive care.
Deep mentorship: Learn technical and consulting skills from experienced team members invested in your growth.
Varied experience: Develop practical experience across financial analysis, healthcare operations, strategic modeling, visualization, and client communication.
Responsibilities
Support the collection, integration, cleaning, and validation of large datasets from clinical, financial, operational, and market sources.
Develop financial and operational analyses, including revenue, cost, margin, utilization, and performance trend analyses, with guidance from project leadership.
Analyze healthcare-specific metrics such as patient volumes, length of stay, service lines, case mix, and facility utilization to identify business drivers and trends.
Assist in developing financial models, business cases, ROI analyses, demand forecasts, and other decision-support tools for capital investments and strategic initiatives.
Create clear charts, dashboards, and PowerPoint presentations that translate complex analysis into actionable insights for project teams and client leadership.
Conduct research, document assumptions and methodologies, perform quality-control reviews, and support preparation of client deliverables.
Collaborate with project team members and provide responsive, high-quality client service.
Requirements
Candidates should be strong academic performers, be interested in consulting and healthcare, and meet the following criteria:
Pursuing a Master's degree with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and August 2028 in Finance, Healthcare Administration, Business, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, or a related quantitative field.
Cumulative GPA of 3.2 or better.
Interest in healthcare financial analysis, strategy, capital planning, or real estate advisory.
Interest in working with large, disparate datasets and developing analytical models.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Access, or statistical packages such as R, SAS, or SPSS is preferred.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and presentation skills.
Ability to translate analysis into clear business insights and effectively document assumptions, methods, and findings.
High level of initiative, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic team environment.
Ability to collaborate effectively and provide excellent client service.
Logistical Requirements
Please note that this role requires permanent authorization to work in the U.S. (i.e. U.S. citizen or permanent resident). Internships and full-time University Associate roles are not eligible for U.S. immigration sponsorship, work visa or any other temporary work authorization (i.e. OPT, CPT).
Willingness to travel based on project needs and work overtime as requested.
Ankura is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the said markets and considers a broad range of factors including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each role. A reasonable estimate of the current payrate range for this internship is: $40/hr. - $50/hr.
Ankura is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, if you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, submit an online application, or participate in an interview/assessment, please email accommodations@ankura.com or call toll-free +1.312-583-2122. This email and phone number are created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues unrelated to a disability, will not receive a response.
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