Start date: February 2027 · Duration: 6 months
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Monthly analytical financial reporting is a critical process for business steering. Today, the production of management reports for each Business Unit remains highly manual, requiring data collection, reconciliation, validation, investigation of unexpected deviations, and interaction with business stakeholders across multiple systems.
As a result, reports are typically available around 7 working days after accounting close. The objective is to reduce this lead time, enabling Business Owners to take corrective actions sooner and allowing financial analysts to focus more on business
partnering and leadership activities rather than data consolidation and investigation.
Recent advances in Agentic AI open the possibility of creating a Financial Investigation Agent capable of analyzing
information from multiple enterprise systems, identifying the root causes of financial variances, validating figures,
reconciling inconsistencies, and generating evidence-based explanations.
Objectives
This internship explores how Agentic AI can support financial controlling and management reporting while maintaining the level of accuracy, traceability, and trust required in a finance environment. The following activities are foreseen:
- Process analysis and stakeholder interviews: understand the current reporting process, identify bottlenecks, and capture how controllers and business managers investigate financial deviations.
- Literature review and state of the art: study recent research on Agentic AI, trustworthy AI, financial analytics, and human-AI collaboration.
- Agent design and prototyping: design and implement a prototype capable of analyzing data from multiple systems, identifying significant variances, investigating potential causes, and generating traceable explanations.
- Validation and evaluation: compare AI-generated analyses with expert controller assessments and measure accuracy, trustworthiness, and potential effort reduction.
- Recommendations and roadmap: define how AI-assisted financial investigation and reporting can be industrialized within the organization.
What we offer
- A dynamic and collaborative environment with experienced finance, data, and AI professionals
- The opportunity to work on a high-impact and highly visible business challenge
- Exposure to Agentic AI, enterprise data platforms, and financial analytics
About your profile
- Master student in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering or similar field
- Interest in AI, Large Language Models, and agent-based systems
- Programming skills (Python, Java)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in business analytics
Skills Required
- Master's student in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering, or a similar field
- Interest in artificial intelligence, Large Language Models, and agent-based systems
- Programming skills in Python and Java
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in business analytics
- Latest academic transcripts submitted with the application
What We Do
With more than 2,300 experts, the ELCA Group is a leading independent Swiss IT service and solution provider, specialized in IT consulting, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Data & AI, Digital experience, Software development, Business applications and systems' integration across all industries. ELCA helps its clients to better compete in the digital era and gain in agility. The privately held company has offices in Pully (HQ), Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Rapperswil and Fehraltorf, as well as offshore centers in Italy, Spain, Mauritius and Vietnam.
