Last updated: August 2026
Voya Financial doesn't run one big fall recruiting wave like the bulge-bracket banks. Its Actuarial, Technology, Finance, and Accounting internship postings for a June start have opened in a rolling window from roughly January through April, then closed within weeks: the Summer 2026 Technology posting came down March 19 and the Finance posting came down March 10, both for a June start. That's a 2- to 5-month runway, not the 12-to-24-month lead times you'll see at investment banks. For summer 2027, expect postings to open on that same January-to-April pattern (documented from the 2026 cycle, not yet posted). If you're reading this before then, the summer 2026 window is already closed and the next one hasn't opened yet, which makes right now the best time to build proof for your application.
Quick Facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Where to apply | voya.com/page/internships or the Voya Workday careers board. Set a job alert for "Intern" postings |
| Application window (2027–28) | Expected January to April 2027 for a June 2027 start (documented 2026-cycle pattern; not yet posted) |
| Rolling? | Short window, not open-ended. Postings for the 2026 cycle closed within 2-6 weeks of going live |
| Eligibility | Currently enrolled undergrad or grad student; minimum 3.0 GPA company-wide, 3.2 GPA stated for Technology |
| Duration | Roughly 12 weeks, June through August |
| Compensation | $23-$27/hr for Finance and Accounting; $25-$30/hr for Technology (2026-cycle postings) |
| Return offers | No published conversion rate. Voya describes the internship as a "12-week interview" for a full-time offer |
| Locations | Hybrid and remote roles, with hub offices in New York NY, Windsor CT, Minneapolis MN, and Atlanta GA |
| # Programs | 9+ tracks, led by the Actuarial Student Program and Technology, plus Finance, Accounting, Treasury, and an MBA rotational program |
Two numbers matter here: a 2- to 5-month runway from posting to start, and postings that close within weeks once they're live. There's no published GPA cutoff company-wide, but the Technology track states a 3.2 minimum.
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What Is a Voya Financial Internship?
A Voya Financial internship is a paid, roughly 12-week summer placement at a Fortune 500 retirement, health, and investment management company that serves more than 18 million customer relationships and manages $1.1 trillion in assets. Interns work inside real teams across Actuarial Sciences, Technology, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, and other corporate functions, and Voya frames the internship itself as a "12-week interview" for a full-time offer after graduation. Employees rate Voya 3.6 out of 5 across roughly 1,193 Glassdoor reviews, with work-life balance and culture as the strongest categories.
When Do Voya Financial Internship Applications Open for 2027–2028?
Voya's calendar runs shorter and later than most finance employers. Actuarial, Technology, Finance, and Accounting postings for the 2026 cycle appeared between roughly January and March, and closed within weeks: the Technology posting was pulled March 19 and the Finance posting March 10, both for a June 2026 start. So for summer 2027 you're likely applying just a few months ahead, not a year or two ahead like at an investment bank. One exception: the MBA Rotational Program, which recruits on a slower, more traditional campus-recruiting calendar for rotations in Scottsdale AZ, Atlanta GA, and New York NY.
The summer 2026 window closed back in March, and summer 2027 postings won't appear for months. Because Voya's window is only weeks long once it opens, what you can show on day one decides whether you're competitive at all.
Build the resume line items Voya's postings actually ask for: Excel or Tableau work, a finance or data project, campus involvement. Set a Workday job alert now so you catch the posting the day it goes live.
The summer 2027 window is expected to open here, based on the 2026-cycle pattern, and it will likely close within weeks. Apply the day you see the posting rather than waiting.
A quick recruiter phone screen followed by a single panel interview, mostly behavioral. Reports describe the whole process wrapping in about two weeks once a candidate is contacted.
Roughly 12 weeks, June through August, across Actuarial, Technology, Finance, and other tracks. Voya treats the internship itself as the interview for a full-time offer.
How to read this page: our dates come from tracking previous recruiting cycles and daily posting data. Treat them as informed estimates based on historical patterns, not confirmed dates. The company's official careers page is always the most current source. If a role is posted there, go by that, even if this page suggests the window hasn't opened yet.
Why You Must Apply the Week Applications Open
Voya's own postings don't stay up long. The Summer 2026 Technology internship was pulled about six weeks after typical posting activity, and the Finance internship came down even sooner, both while the June start date was still months away. There's no published "apply by" deadline broadcast in advance the way a bank might announce one, which means the real deadline is whenever Voya decides it has enough applicants, and that can happen fast. Waiting a few weeks to polish a resume can mean applying to a posting that's already gone.
Which Voya Financial Internship Programs Should You Target?
Voya runs internships across nine-plus corporate functions. The Actuarial Student Program is the most structured, built around Society of Actuaries exam support; the rest place interns directly into a business team for the summer.
| Program | Focus | Duration | Key skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actuarial Student Program | Rotational assignments across Pricing, Valuation, Modeling, Financial Reporting, Asset/Liability Management | ~12 weeks | SOA exam progress, quantitative analysis, Excel |
| Technology | Data Management, Infrastructure, Digital Solutions, Security Services | ~12 weeks | Computer science fundamentals, self-motivation, communication; 3.2 GPA stated |
| Finance | Financial analysis and reporting support | ~12 weeks | Excel modeling, analytical and communication skills, Tableau a plus |
| Accounting | General ledger and reporting work | ~12 weeks | Accounting coursework, Microsoft Office, detail orientation |
| Treasury | Cash management and corporate treasury operations | ~12 weeks | Finance or accounting background, analytical rigor |
| MBA Rotational Program | Cross-functional rotations for MBA candidates | Multi-rotation | Business strategy, leadership, cross-team collaboration |
See the current list on the official internships page and search "Intern" directly on the Voya Workday careers board. Smaller functions like Employee Benefits, Strategic Sourcing, Sales Strategy, and Business Resiliency also post individual internship roles most cycles.
What Are the Eligibility Requirements?
Voya's internships page and individual job postings list the same core requirements:
• Enrollment: currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student, pursuing a degree in a relevant field (Finance, Business, Insurance, Accounting, Marketing, Operational Risk Management, HR, or IT-related programs).
• GPA: the official internships page states a 3.0 minimum company-wide. The Technology track's own posting is stricter, stating a 3.2 minimum, so check the specific role's posting rather than assuming 3.0 applies everywhere.
• Work authorization: the postings we reviewed (Finance, Technology) carry no sponsorship language one way or the other. Voya's careers site does warn that it will never ask candidates to pay to apply or use Google Meet/WhatsApp for interviews, a scam-prevention note worth knowing.
• Skills: the internships page names detail-oriented analysis, teamwork, strong communication, PC proficiency, and quick learning as the traits Voya screens for across every track.
Is the 3.0 GPA a Hard Cutoff?
It depends on the track. The general internships page states 3.0 as the company-wide minimum, but Technology's own posting raises that to 3.2, and neither figure is described as a strict cutoff versus a stated preference. Treat 3.0 as the floor to clear and 3.2 as the safer target if you're applying to Technology specifically. Beyond GPA, the interview process leans heavily behavioral rather than technical, so campus leadership and a finished project matter as much as the transcript.
What Skills Does Voya Financial Look For, and How Do You Build Them?
Voya's own postings are consistent on the soft-skill side: communication, analytical thinking, and Microsoft Office proficiency show up across Actuarial, Finance, Technology, and Accounting postings alike. The technical asks split by track. Technology wants computer science fundamentals; Finance and Accounting want Excel modeling and, in some postings, Tableau; Actuarial wants quantitative reasoning that supports SOA exam progress. Across the broader corporate-finance-intern hiring market Voya's roles sit in, 83% of postings mention accounting fluency and 67% mention Excel, which lines up with what Voya's own JDs ask for.
What Voya Financial looks for in interns
Skills across 4 Voya Financial intern & analyst job descriptions · 2026-cycle Actuarial, Technology, Finance, and Accounting postings
Method: full-text review of Voya's Summer 2026 Actuarial, Technology, Finance, and Accounting intern postings plus the official internships page. Small base (4 postings read in full); directional, not a statistically representative sample.
How Is Demand for Corporate Finance Interns Moving Right Now?
Corporate finance intern hiring right now: August 2026
Across roughly 240 US finance-intern postings tracked this month (vs 190/day in July) · aggregate market data, all employers
August 2026 is this tracker's baseline for the finance-analyst-intern role, so month-over-month deltas start at the next update. The signal now: corporate-finance intern hiring is accelerating faster than the general financial-analyst market, consistent with Voya's own postings typically opening in this window.
Method: aggregate analysis of US corporate-finance, FP&A, and capital-markets-data intern postings via Adzuna, August 2026 baseline. Sample indexes under half of all US postings; figures show direction of change, not total market share.
Build These Skills Before You Apply
The overlap between Voya's own postings and a remote Externship is direct, especially on the reporting and analysis side.
| Skill (from real JDs) | JD evidence | Externship that builds it |
|---|---|---|
| Financial analysis & Excel modeling | Finance JD: "strong analytical and communication skills," Microsoft Office proficiency, Tableau a plus | Attronica FP&A & Private Company Valuation |
| Data analysis & reporting | Technology JD: Data Management focus area; Actuarial JD: quantitative modeling and reporting | Beats by Dre Data Analytics |
| Investment and markets fundamentals | Voya is an investment management and retirement company managing $1.1 trillion in assets | Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling |
None of these swap out the technical skill a specific track wants (Technology still wants CS fundamentals), but they give you finished, client-ready analysis work to reference in the behavioral interview Voya actually runs.
What Is the Voya Financial Application and Interview Process Like?
Voya's process is short and mostly non-technical, based on candidate reports:
1. Apply through voya.com/page/internships or the Workday careers board once a posting for your track is live. There's no separate cover letter requirement on most postings.
2. Recruiter phone screen. A quick initial call to confirm background and interest; candidates describe this stage as brief.
3. Panel interview. One round in front of several people, reported as two interviewers for the first half and two more for the second half of the session, roughly 30 minutes each.
4. Decision. Candidate reports describe the whole process, screen to decision, wrapping in about two weeks once contacted.
Multiple candidates describe the interview as behavioral rather than technical, with questions about past internship experience and general finance awareness rather than coding or modeling tests. Rehearse the STAR format anyway: our HireVue question guide with a free AI mock tool runs the same time pressure.
What Students on Reddit Say
A few threads give a read on what applying to Voya actually looks like.
Voya is a well-respected organization. My accounting internship interview was straightforward, mostly about my background and why I wanted to work there, not a technical grilling.
If you want a company that only runs behavioral interviews with no technical round, Voya Financial is one of the ones people mention alongside Dell.
Even as a college freshman you can land intern work at a company like Voya Financial. Industry-side firms like this are more open to first-years than the big banks are.
How Do You Stand Out in a Window That Only Stays Open Weeks?
Three moves matter more than a perfect GPA here. First, have your application ready before the posting goes live, because a 2- to 6-week window doesn't leave time to build a resume from scratch after you see the listing. Second, lean into the behavioral interview: candidate reports describe two rounds of mostly HR-style questions, so a clear story about a past project or internship experience carries more weight than a coding test would. Third, target the track your background actually fits: Technology's 3.2 GPA line and CS-specific questions are different from Finance's Excel-and-communication ask, so don't send the same story to both. Voya frames the internship itself as a 12-week interview, so once you're in, performing like a full-time hire is the rest of the strategy.
What Other Companies Should You Consider?
Voya sits in the retirement, benefits, and investment-management corner of financial services, alongside these firms.
- MetLifeinsurance and employee-benefits giant with tracks across six functionsGuide →
- Northwestern Mutualinsurance and financial planning, with a large field-based internship programGuide →
- Fidelityasset management and brokerage; a much larger, ~1,000-seat intern classGuide →
- TIAAretirement-plan specialist with a nonprofit and higher-ed client baseCareers site
- Ameriprise Financialwealth management and advisory, similar mid-size corporate-intern classCareers site
Our finance internships summer 2027 guide maps the full field, timeline by timeline.
FAQ
Can I still apply for a summer 2026 Voya Financial internship?
No. Voya's Summer 2026 postings closed in March 2026, months before the June start. The next window opens for summer 2027, expected between January and April 2027 based on the 2026-cycle pattern. Set a Workday job alert so you catch it the day it posts.
When do Voya Financial internship applications open for summer 2027?
Expected between January and April 2027, based on the documented pattern from the 2026 cycle (Technology and Finance postings both appeared and closed within that window for a June start). Not yet posted as of this writing.
Is Voya Financial internship hiring rolling?
Not open-ended. Postings for the 2026 cycle stayed live for roughly 2 to 6 weeks before coming down, so it behaves more like a short hard window than a rolling year-round process. Apply as soon as a posting for your track goes live.
Does Voya Financial require a minimum GPA for internships?
The official internships page states a 3.0 minimum company-wide. The Technology track's own posting states 3.2. Check the specific role's posting since the figure isn't uniform across tracks.
What is the Voya Financial internship interview process like?
A recruiter phone screen followed by one panel interview (reported as two interviewers for each half of a roughly hour-long session). Candidate reports describe the process as short, about two weeks from contact to decision, and mostly behavioral with little to no technical testing.
Do Voya Financial interns get return offers?
Voya publishes no conversion rate. The company describes its internship as a "12-week interview," with strong performance leading to a full-time offer, but no percentage is disclosed publicly.
What skills does Voya Financial look for in interns?
Across Actuarial, Technology, Finance, and Accounting postings: communication and analytical/quantitative reasoning appear in all four, Excel and detail orientation in three of four, and track-specific asks like CS fundamentals for Technology and SOA exam readiness for Actuarial.
How much does a Voya Financial internship pay?
2026-cycle postings ran $23 to $27 per hour for Finance and Accounting, and $25 to $30 per hour for Technology. Voya also notes eligibility for incentive opportunities like an annual bonus, on top of the hourly base.
Voya's window is short and unpredictable once it opens. Spend the months before it does building proof: a remote Externship turns "interested in finance" into a finished project you can point to the day the posting goes live.
About the Author
Bifei Wang has spent 17 years focused on human flow and the growth of young professionals, spanning international education, career training and coaching, and recruitment process outsourcing. Over 7 years at Extern, he has had one-on-one sessions with thousands of students exploring careers in consulting, finance, tech, marketing, and data, giving him a firsthand view of how the job market has shifted for early-career professionals and what it actually takes to break in.
