2023 Kendo Summer Internship Program

June 5th to August 18th (July 3rd to July 7th Vacation)

ABOUT KENDO
Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. A play on the words “can do”, Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• “Can Do” Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone’s voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no one else: It’s our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever-constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

As a condition of employment, Kendo requires all newly hired employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by their start date unless they have requested and received an exemption from the Company in the form of a reasonable accommodation due to a qualifying medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief or practice.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Ole Henriksen and Lip Lab.

Kendo Brands Summer Internship is a paid ($22.00 per hr) ten-week program where you will be focused on an assigned project, while being introduced to and fully integrated into the daily activities of your team. For Summer 2023, our program will be 100% virtual. You will get the opportunity to explore a department and learn what it is like to develop a career at a beauty brand incubator. Our internships will include exposure to senior leadership in the Kendo organization and regular check-ins on internship status. Interns will also get an opportunity to learn about LVMH and how Kendo fits into the LVMH family.

We encourage students of diverse backgrounds to apply, including, but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, military status and people with disabilities.

Qualified candidates must be a rising junior, senior or class of 2023 graduate. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Kendo’s internship program will be a fulltime ten-week program. Candidates must be available to work June 5 – August 18 (Week of July 3rd – July 7th off for vacation).

SUMMARY:
The Finance intern will be fully integrated into the day-to-day activities of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. Additionally, you will be responsible for leading an individual project that will be presented to Senior Finance leadership at the end of the summer.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Gather financial sales, and marketing data from multiple systems/sources and compile it to comprehensive report.
• Work with cross-functional business partners to create a systematic dashboard to be used on a monthly/weekly basis.
• Own an individual project and/or group project with strategic business impact.
• Perform ad-hoc projects as they come up.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Senior, preferably with a major in Finance or Accounting.
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task with excellent follow-through and task completion is critical.
• Familiar with financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet) and how they work together.
• Strong qualitative and analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data into an insightful story.
• Specific interest in Beauty preferred but not required.
• Optimistic and can-do attitude to help push for resolutions.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills.
• Creative problem solver with a sense of curiosity; able to work independently to produce quality results.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly in Excel with basic knowledge of formula structures and pivot tables.