Group IT Controlling Internship – Finance, Data & AI
We are looking for a motivated student to join our Group IT Controlling team in Prague. The role combines finance & controlling, data, technology and AI in an international environment. A key part of the internship is taking ownership of recurring Group IT Controlling activities – closing, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, reconciliations and first-level analysis. Our principle is simple: first understand and reliably execute the current process; then help us improve or automate it. You will work with Group-level IT financial data, modern Microsoft technologies and enterprise AI tools, with regular exposure to senior Finance and IT stakeholders, including the Group CIO.
Required education: University Degree
Required languages: Advanced level of English, Czech/Slovak is an advantage
Employment form: Part- time job
- Support monthly closing, forecasting, budgeting and management reporting
- Perform data quality checks, reconciliations and variance investigation, including follow-up, clarification and alignment with local Finance and IT teams across countries
- Analyse IT OPEX, CAPEX, personnel expenses and key financial KPIs across multiple countries
- Run and improve automated first-level controls and investigate exceptions
- Support recurring Group IT reporting and management information in Power BI
- Uphold Group-wide reporting structures, definitions and data treatment across countries, ensuring deviations are identified and resolved so the Group view remains consistent and comparable
- Work with SQL to structure, transform and maintain financial and controlling data
- Support budgeting and forecasting processes in Microsoft Fabric Planning
- Identify repetitive activities suitable for automation and help improve them using Power Automate, AI agents and other tools
- Use enterprise AI tools in everyday analytical and controlling work
- Basic understanding of OPEX, CAPEX and PEREX and their impact on EBITDA and net profit
- Some exposure to monthly closing, forecasting and/or budgeting
- Ability to understand and investigate financial variances
- Excel: good user knowledge, including modern functions (e.g. LET, FILTER, XLOOKUP; LAMBDA is an advantage)
- SQL: basic knowledge of SELECT (WHERE, AND/OR nested logic, CASE, aggregations and JOINs)
- Power Query: practical user knowledge; ability to understand and modify existing transformations
- Power BI, Power Automate, Microsoft Fabric Planning and Fabric PowerTable: nice to have, can be taught
- Long-term collaboration for 1 year; availability to work approximately 30 hours per week
- Advanced level of English, Czech/Slovak is an advantage
- Working for the largest pharma retail company in Europe with great expansion plans
- A company with a meaningful purpose, an outstanding customer value proposition within an industry offering a resilient, non-cyclical growth pattern
- Global-level job within group headquarters with a group-wide impact
- Space for professional growth within a growing organization
- Hands-on experience across Finance, Data, IT and AI
- Access to Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Power Automate and Microsoft Copilot; Claude Enterprise may be provided where justified by the use case
- Regular interaction with senior IT and Finance stakeholders, including the Group CIO
- Exposure to topics discussed at Group Board level
- VIP discount in Dr. Max pharmacies, meal allowance, Multisport card fully covered by employer, public transport contribution, pension insurance contribution, referral bonus etc.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your CV to groupHR@drmax.eu
Dr. Max Group is a European pharmaceutical concern owned by Penta, an investment group established in 1994, operating primarily in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Their offices are located in Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Limassol. The business areas of Penta Investments include long-term investing in healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, media and real estate development. The companies of Penta’s portfolio employ more than 43,000 people, with more than 22,000 professionals working in healthcare. The group’s assets value reached €14 billion in 2022.