In this article, Annie YEUNG (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor in Business Administration (GBBA) – Exchange Student, 2025) shares her experience as an Intern at FTI Consulting.
About the firm
FTI consulting Is a business consultancy firm and global management advisory company. It is one of the leading global expert firms to help organizations that are facing crisis or transformation. fti consulting is a global company with a great presence in 33 countries and it has become a market leading global consulting firm that has experts to serve and help their clients as the trusted advisor for their clients to cope with challenges and leverage opportunitIes. FTI Consulting Has been recognized globally for their comprehensive services to assist their clients businesses and make a global impact under dynamic business cycles and unexpected crises. Therefore fti consulting is a prominent firm in the financial consultancy and services landscape and the company is largely recognized for its expertise and professionalism offering its clients financial services that are tailored to meet to meet their diverse nfti consulting . Fti consulting advises on risk management as well as it assists organizations on navigating through complex financial challenges and restructuring processes.
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FTI consulting operates across various departments and each are specializing in distinct areas of professionalism and expertise to help solve diverse and comprehensive solutions for their clients.
- Corporate finance and restructuring focuses on providing financial advisory services to companies who are undergoing financial distress, restructuring processes. Services may include success, debt restructuring, turnaround strategies, financial analysis, which FTI consulting may help optimize their clients’ financial performance.
- Forensic and litigation consulting includes investigating and litigation support services which FTI consulting assist their clients in addressing legal challenges, regulate increase, and fraud investigations. FTI consulting acts as the expert to provide analysis and support legal proceedings for their clients.
- Economic consulting, help their clients to conduct economic analysis, and provides analysis and insights into complex economic issues. FTI, consulting, economic, and financial consulting, helps their clients to understand more about economic and financial regulatory opportunities, and challenges in order to better support their companies, legal and business decisions.
- Technology helps clients to manage and leverage technology and enhance their IT infrastructure as well as security protocols and their businesses.
- Strategic communication helps clients to navigate through crisis and manage their reputation through effective communication with stakeholders. Strategic communication helps clients to reduce risk, and specializes in multiple areas, including corporate reputation, crisis communications, financial communications, public and government affairs, transaction communications, communications and insights.
- Risk and compliance focuses on helping organizations navigate through regulatory requirements as well as compliance procedures.
- Transaction advisory services provides support and advisory services to clients and mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions. FTI consulting provides valuation financial advisory services to support their clients in making their informed business decisions.
- Health solutions specializes in providing healthcare organizations and management support and helps them address challenges and seize opportunities
My internship
During my internship at FTI consulting as the corporate finance and restructuring summer intern, I was able to gain valuable experience in immersing in a dynamic environment that provided me with invaluable, hands-on experience in financial analysis as well as restructuring procedures. One of the many important rules, I undertook during my internship included conducting detailed company research and delving into various legal papers. I conducted detail company re-and also organized for the adjudication of debts. in conducting from our financial analysis I enjoyed researching through numerous financial data from our clients, reviewing searching, checking sorting and grouping for these data. By organizing transaction data, I was able to learn more about a company and also practice my attention to detail.
Required skills and knowledge
Through my involvement in various tasks during my internship, I understood more about the important skills and knowledge required during my work. For example, I realized it was important important to develop a keen eye for detail and hold a meticulous approach when scrutinizing financial data. The ability to gather interpret understand and organized complex financial data was important. I also realize the importance of effective communication in the field of corporate finance and restructuring while working in FTI consulting. For example, whether if it is engaging in internal discussions with my team or communicating with clients, I realize the importance of delivering clear and concise communication in order to better convey our financial analysis and concepts. It was also crucial in building relationship with our clients as well as facilitating teamwork within our department in order to ensure the process was smooth. Furthermore, for more technical skills I learned how important it was to understand how companies manage their finances to optimize value. my exposure to transaction analysis and financial analysis as well as understanding the transparency and financial reporting processes allowed me to understand How to during restructuring assessments. It is important to evaluate a companies financial health and implement strategic planning to improve its overall financial position.
What I learned
The internship experience was extremely rewarding to me. I learned how restructuring process works, restructuring involves assessing a company’s financial situation and making changes to its structure or capital structure in order to improve on the companies financial health. Incorporate financial and restructuring I learned about the transactional, valuation and advising procedures of FTI consulting. Through taking the role on advising for our clients, I learned how to advise companies in managing their finances in order to maximize their company value and minimize their risks. Furthermore, the internship experience not only gave me exposure to financial procedures scrutiny, but also honed my skills of being attentive to detail, ability gather and interpret complex information, which is a vital skill in financial analysis. I was able to hone my analytical skills, make informative decisions based on multifaceted data.
Financial concepts related to my internship
I present below three financial concepts related to my internship: debt restructuring, financial analysis, and valuation techniques.
Debt restructuring
The first financial concept I gained insight into during my intern internship was debt restructuring. Debt restructuring means modifying the terms of existing debt agreements to alleviate companies financial or improve its financial position. Debt restructuring processes may include various steps such as refinancing debt, extending maturity dates, negotiating interest rates etc. I learned about how companies may effectively manage their debt obligations in order to optimize their financial structure, and ensure their financial position’s health.
Financial analysis
The second financial concept I learned during my intern intern internship was financial analysis. By looking at bank statements and financial reports, I realize how critical financial analysis is to corporate finance and restructuring. I developed a deep understanding of this concept and skills in evaluating financial statements, understanding the meaning behind each number on the financial report as well as understood more about performance metrics in order to assess the companies financial health and performance. By reviewing detailed ledgers and analyzing and identifying significant transactions, I was better able to interpret complex financial data as part of the process in helping our client make better informed business decisions.
Valuation techniques
The third financial concept I learned was valuation techniques, as it is utilized to determine a companies asset or investment value. Not only did I learn more about cash flows, market trends and cash flow, I was also able to hone my skills in learning about valuation models in order to determine the fair value of assets, which was an important procedure in the restructuring process .
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About the author
The article was written in June 2025 by Annie YEUNG (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor in Business Administration (GBBA) – Exchange Student, 2025).