This past summer, senior finance major Emily Morrissey had an internship with Siemens Healthineers’ Financial Leadership and Development Program (FLDP) for the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) team. Morrissey’s internship started in May and ended in August. Siemens Healthineers is originally a German company which provides healthcare solutions and services. A lot of what the company does is make CAT scans and MRI machines.
“If you’ve ever had an MRI, it was probably done with one of Siemens’ machines,” Morrissey said.
Morrissey spent her time in the Finance department handling payments, payment disputes, service payments, updates on the machine and communications within the company.
When asked what her day-to-day at the internship looked like, Morrissey laughed and said, “A LOT of Excel!”
Morrissey’s schedule was mostly remote, only going into the office one day a week. She would often check on the disputes she was assigned to see how much a particular customer still owed on a machine, which accounts still had disputes and helped to transfer company sensitive claimed and unclaimed messages internally.
“I would also clean old accounts and automate certain tasks for the company,” Morrissey said.
The biggest challenge that Morrissey faced during her internship was figuring out how to use Siemens’ SAP internal software. In order to overcome this challenge, Morrissey relied on her mentor. Mentors mainly support their mentee while learning more about the company and the inner workings of their desired industry.
“I don’t know what I would have done without her,” Morrissey stated.
Morrissey did a lot during her time at Siemens, but she really enjoyed helping the company by making an app designed to help employees organize the customers and disputes that they are working with.
When asked what advice she had for other students looking to find any type of internship, she is very adamant that you need to just keep applying.
“It’s ok to have someone say no, but you have to put yourself out there and keep trying. You’ll get a million rejections before you get a yes,” Morrissey advised.
Morrissey went on to explain that by continuing to put yourself out there and willingness to keep trying to find an internship is better than just applying to one. Students looking for an internship should apply to as many as they can, so they can get as many acceptances to choose from as possible. Morrissey encourages her fellow students to have faith in themselves and their abilities, just as she did when applying for Siemens’ internship.
