About the Role
Canada Rocket Company is building sovereign launch capability for Canada. As the first Strategy & Operations Co-op, you will work directly with the Chief Financial Officer across finance, strategy, technology, and business operations to accelerate engineering team progress. This is a hands-on role where you will build new processes and tools that will be actively used.
Responsibilities
- Support the development of the enterprise financial model.
- Run the financial planning and analysis cycle, including budget versus actual analysis and forecast updates.
- Support capital planning and project controls for facility, test, and long-lead hardware programs.
- Size the addressable market and build capture and revenue models.
- Support proposals, grant submissions, and go-to-market strategy.
- Build build-versus-buy analyses and product lifecycle techno-economic models.
- Help deploy AI-native business processes to enhance employee effectiveness.
- Design and build agentic workflows that connect systems and data, and scale successful processes.
- Run program and project management for commercial initiatives.
- Establish business rhythms to maintain momentum for commercial initiatives.
- Build procurement processes to ensure supply chain resilience.
Requirements
- Enrolled in a co-op or internship program at the undergraduate level or above, in business, commerce, economics, business technology management, or engineering.
- At least one prior completed internship or co-op work term.
- Fluency with economic and financial modeling principles, with the ability to apply them quickly in Excel and/or AI-assisted, structured code-based models (e.g., Python).
- Systems thinking ability to understand cross-organizational connections between processes, data, and decisions.
- Working understanding of data structures, database architectures, and how business systems store, relate, and exchange information.
- Fluent with AI tools and able to apply them to redesign work processes.
- Rigour and accuracy in work with financial, contractual, and external consequences.
- Ability to work independently where established processes do not yet exist.
- Eligible for, obtain, and maintain a security assessment required under Canada's Controlled Goods Program (CGP).
Skills
- Economic modeling
- Financial modeling
- Excel
- Python
- Systems thinking
- Data structures
- Database architectures
- AI tools
- AI-native business processes
- Agentic workflows
- Program management
- Project management
- Procurement processes
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Undergraduate co-op/internship
- Graduate co-op/internship
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree
- Graduate degree (MBA, MFin, MSc, or equivalent)
Salary/Compensations
- $25.00 - $30.00 per hour for undergraduate students
- $30.00 - $40.00 per hour for graduate students
Benefits
- Accommodations available on request
About the Company
- Canada Rocket Company is building sovereign launch capability for Canada.
- Registered under Canada's Controlled Goods Program (CGP).
Equal Opportunity
- Canada Rocket Company is an equal-opportunity employer.
