Accelerate your finance career through immersive development opportunities designed to build your leadership skills and business acumen. Gain hands-on experience, collaborate with partners across the enterprise and turn financial insights into action while developing the skills to help shape our future.
The Financial Leadership Development Program (FLDP) is a 3-year accelerated leadership experience for MBA talent ready to make an impact.
The FLDP Internship is a high-impact 10-week summer experience designed for future business leaders.
Build the future of Target.
The Finance Leadership Development Program (FLDP) is a three-year accelerated leadership experience for MBA talent looking to learn through direct business experiences. With high-impact rotations across Target Finance, you'll help shape strategic decisions for a Fortune 50 retailer, working alongside leaders across the business, while building the breadth of experience, and leadership capabilities needed to grow your career. Our FLDP has developed more than 80 alumni who hold leadership roles across Target's enterprise- and this leadership experience is your first step toward that path. The relationships you build through the program become an enduring network of mentors, collaborators, and advocates as your career continues to grow.
Designed for MBA talent with the ambition to lead.
At Target, Finance is a catalyst for growth, innovation, and enterprise leadership. We go beyond measuring performance to help define what's next, turning insights into action, enabling confident decisions, connecting teams across the enterprise and safeguarding long-term value. Together, Finance helps shape the future of Target for our guests, team members, shareholders, and communities.
FLDP participants take on meaningful business challenges, work alongside senior leaders and build the breadth of experiences, skills and leadership capabilities to prepare for what’s next.
Why FLDP?
Accelerated leadership development
Opportunities to work with and learn from senior leaders
Enterprise-wide business impact
2+ roles across Financial Planning & Analysis with select opportunities across other Finance functions
Personalized coaching and mentorship
Some of Target's most impactful leadership journeys have roots in Finance.
Target CEO Michael Fiddelke started his Target career as a finance intern before advancing through various leadership roles across finance, merchandising, operations, and enterprise strategy—ultimately becoming Chief Executive Officer.
Read more about Michael's journey,
I joined Target through the Finance Leadership Development Program, and it gave me the chance to learn from exceptional leaders, take on meaningful work and build skills across a dynamic retail business. That experience helped shape my career, and it reflects what I value most about Target: growth is part of our culture, supported by leaders, investments and opportunities that help people keep learning and developing at every stage of their career.
A multi-year leadership journey.
The FLDP combines rotational experiences, leadership development, opportunities to learn from senior leaders, and real-world business ownership.
Participants take on increasingly complex challenges while developing the strategic, analytical, and leadership capabilities to prepare for what's next.
You'll Gain
Potential areas include:
Participants receive:
Many of our alumni have held leadership roles across Target's enterprise.
Join a program designed to develop future finance and enterprise leaders at one of the world's most recognized brands. Our FLDP program recruits from top MBA programs, conferences, MBA organizations and Target campus partnerships.
Your leadership journey starts here
The thoughtful and engaging programming in the FLDP helped me build confidence in my leadership skills.
The MBA Finance Internship is a high-impact summer experience designed for MBA talent ready to learn, grow and lead. You'll tackle strategic challenges, influence real decisions, and work along side leaders across Target's enterprise. Top-performing interns are considered for full-time placement into Target's Financial Leadership Development Program.
At Target, interns don't observe the business—they help shape it.
You'll own meaningful work, partner with senior leaders, and deliver recommendations that influence decisions across one of the largest retailers in the world.
What sets this internship apart
Strategic project ownership
Opportunities to work with and learn from senior leaders
Dedicated mentorship
Enterprise-wide visibility
Opportunity to impact a Fortune 50 business
A pathway to finance leadership
The MBA Finance Internship serves as the primary pipeline into Target's Financial Leadership Development Program.
Throughout the summer, you'll demonstrate your ability to think strategically, lead through ambiguity, and influence business outcomes.
Top-performing interns may receive:
A return offer into FLDP
Continued mentorship from Target leaders
Early integration into the future FLDP cohort network
Corporate Financial Planning
Merchandising Finance
Stores Finance
Supply Chain Finance
Digital & Retail Media Finance
Capital Finance
Marketing Finance
Analyze complex business challenges
Develop strategic recommendations
Collaborate with cross-functional partners
Present findings to senior leaders
Deliver measurable business impact
Final Executive Presentation
Every intern presents recommendations and insights to finance and business leaders at the conclusion of the program.
Interns have opportunites to learn directly from leaders across Target's enterprise through:
Executive speaker series
Leadership roundtables
Networking events
Informal mentorship opportunities
Cross-functional business exposure
The goal is simple: help you build perspective, learn how decisions are made at scale and develop skills you can carry forward.
By the end of the summer, I felt like I had made a meaningful contribution, but the biggest factor in me returning was the culture.
The next generation of Target finance leaders starts here.
Spend a summer solving meaningful business challenges, building relationships with leaders, and exploring a pathway into one of Target's leadership development programs.
MBA Finance Internship → Financial Leadership Development Program → Enterprise Leadership Opportunities