Investment Risk Management - Undergrad Intern
$26+ / hour
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Job Description
At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic firm spans asset management, wealth management and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. And our welcoming, respectful and inclusive culture provides opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.
Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!
Position Summary:
The fundamentalobjectivesof Franklin Templeton’sInvestment Risk Management (IRM)group include:
Providing independent perspective & challenge
Promoting a culture of transparency
Identifying & assessing key risks and providing insights
Offering risk expertise & knowledge for decisions
Stewarding risk data & statistics
Protecting the client’s alpha
The major types of investment risk that IRM monitors include liquidity risk, concentration risk, market risk,creditrisk,and other risks. As a department, we continuously aim to enhance our overall risk program, pursue increased access to data/information, and improve our risk discussions/analysis.
This person will have an opportunity to deliver on key organizational goals including:
Improve infrastructure through collaborating with firm initiatives, retiring antiquated systems, rationalizing database structure, andleveragingestablished systems
Expand data accessibility and ensure data quality
Leverage artificial intelligence and other technology toidentifytrends and patterns
The ways in which this person will add value to the firm include:
Providing quantitative portfolio analysis
Ensuringaccurateportfolio analytics for key portfolio risks
Maintaining risk information for trend and pattern insights
Delivering tools for IRM research including visualizations and portals
Strengthening transparency and understanding
Detect and help avoid unintended investment risks
Determineinvestment risk impacts of new portfolio ideas
Delivering governance expected by boards and clients
Maintain a common investment risk framework
Provide independent perspective and challenge governance
Monitor regulatory investment limits
Building collective intelligence
Create insights from having larger views spanning investment teams, specialized investmentmanagersand client portfolios
Identifyand track emergent macro and geopolitical risks
Several of the opportunities this person will have toimpactthe success of the organization include:
Enhance business intelligence through new analytics
Improve governance surrounding data quality
Enhance organizational awareness by conducting investment risk oversight
Team Culture:
Franklin Templeton’s Investment Risk Management (IRM)department is comprised of 30+ risk analysts, 35+ risk managers, and 10+ members of risk support from across the globe who work towards the common goal of providing independent investment risk management to a broad, diverse constituent base (executive management, investors/clients, investment managers, and risk governance & oversight).
An intern in this department can expect to learn:
Quantitative finance and asset managementknowledge
Technical experiencehandlinglarge volumes of data
Fundamentals of data modeling
Team collaboration
Key Responsibilities Can Include:
1. Industry Research
Assistwith the identification of risk trends and patterns across investment strategies
Identifyrisk drivers across investment strategies
2. Data Visualization
Build analytical tools to efficiently derive risk insights
Implement metrics to better assessmarketbehavior
Automaterisk modelreconciliation process to ensure data completeness and accuracy (SQL, Power BI)
3. Digital Transformation
Ideal Qualifications:
Background inquantitative financeor related fields
Experience withusingdata visualization tools(Power Bi, Tableau, SQL)
Ability to perform dataanalysisand industry research
Ready to make moves? Apply today!
Please be sure to attach your resume whensubmittingyour application. Applicationssubmittedwithout a resume will not be considered.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may not be able to respond to each applicant individually. Ifyou'reinterested in more than one internship, we encourage you to apply to all positions that align with your interests.
This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately40(dependentonstate/location)hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $26(dependent on location andfunction)USD per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation.
Experience our welcoming culture and reach your professional and personal potential!
Our culture is shaped by the variety of perspectives and experiences brought by talent from around the world. Regardless of your interests, lifestyle, or background, there’s a place for you at Franklin Templeton. We provide employees with the tools, resources, and learning opportunities to help them excel in their career and personal life.
Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
If you believe that you need an accommodation or adjustment to search for or apply for one of our positions, please send an email to accommodations@franklintempleton.com. In your email, please include the accommodation or adjustment you are requesting, the job title, and the job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only accommodation requests will receive a response.
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