Intern - Mergers and Acquisitions (Summer 2025)

An exciting, 10-week, paid, on-site Internship experience awaits! Gain real life experience into the world of Insurance Brokerage. You will work within a high-energy, fast paced environment that is both competitive and fun. This role will afford the opportunity to work with our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) department in Boston, Massachusetts for Summer 2025. This is an exciting opportunity as you will gain first hand M&A exposure by assisting with a variety of activities ranging from financial analysis and modeling, company and industry research, participate in the preparation of internal presentations, and interaction with senior management and outside diligence providers.

Our summer internship program offers the chance to gain practical, real-world M&A experience at a Top 16 P&C Broker. As a part of the program, you will have the opportunity to work on business specific projects where you will gain knowledge and experience to supplement and strengthen your skills.

You will:

• Receive targeted business and technical training with a greater understanding of the overall M&A process within Risk Strategies.

• Provide analyses of potential acquisitions by reviewing Confidential Information Memorandums and supplemental financial information.

• Update and maintain acquisition pipeline reports as well as virtual data rooms.

• Shadow Team members on due diligence meetings with the key contacts of the acquisition and the outside diligence providers to further develop an understanding of the business operations.

• Work with M&A team members to learn how acquisitions impact the various functional departments of the organization, i.e. finance, legal, HR, operations, IT.

• Learn, and contribute to presentations which provide an all-inclusive overview of each pending acquisition to the functional department and practice leaders within Risk Strategies.

• Assist in generating ad-hoc requests consisting of financial modeling, and deal summaries.

• Be assigned a dedicated Internship Mentor & Internship Ambassador during your Internship experience

• Engage weekly with Sr. Leaders across the company on our renowned “Leadership Spotlight” Series

• Participate weekly in our “Career Enhancement” Series (Creating/Updating Your LinkedIn profile, Interviewing Best Practices, Resume Writing, Job Search tips etc.)

• Be actively involved in our “Risk Mate” Program for breakout sessions throughout the summer

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Must be a Rising Senior (Anticipated Graduation 5/26)

• Must be available for entire 10-week program

• 3.0 GPA or higher (Transcript required prior to interview)

• Must be pursuing a degree in Finance, Risk Management or Economics (previous insurance internship experience may be considered in lieu of)

• Must be available to interview in December/January

• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills

• Must be detailed oriented and proficient with MS Office Suite

Risk Strategies is the 9th largest privately held US brokerage firm offering comprehensive risk management advice, insurance and reinsurance placement for property & casualty, employee benefits, private client services, as well as consulting services and financial & wealth solutions. With over 200 offices and more than 5,400 employees, Risk Strategies is as part of the Accession Risk Management Group family of companies.

Industry recognition includes being certified a 2024 Rise Elite Internship Program Recipient, Great Place to Work in 2024 and is on the Inc. 5000 list as one of America’s fastest growing private companies.