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Investment Risk - Intern - 12-Month Placement 2024-2025

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AXA Investment Managers

Feb 16

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Placement Program
  • Banking & Finance
  • London

Requirements

  • Education qualifications:
  • Second year of undergraduate studies in Finance, Maths or Engineering
  • Technical skills:
  • Must have strong numerical and analytical abilities.
  • Must demonstrate strong relevant experience with programming in an object-oriented language.
  • Must demonstrate a strong interest in financial markets and risk analysis.
  • Key Competencies:
  • Autonomy: is able to complete tasks of a certain technical or relational complexity unsupervised
  • Rigour and reliability: demonstrates thoroughness and exercises judgment to provide, in a timely manner, quality analysis and deliverables
  • Pragmatism and results orientation: delivers timely, tangible, exploitable results which create value
  • Ability to summarise and communicate: provides clear summaries and presentations to management, highlighting key points and control outcomes. Clearly presents these elements in the context of different meetings or committees.
  • Effective management of subjects on several fronts: more particularly, proactively acts to anticipate possible difficulties and escalates to management where necessary
  • Team spirit: ability and desire to work as part of a team; will support others and build relationships within and outside of their immediate team; able to engage with the team on a global basis
  • Any skills or experience which are desirable but not necessary:
  • Preferable prior experience coding in Python.
  • Preferable study in a degree linked to evidencing the abilities and experiences in the first part of this Profile section (numerical and analytical abilities, programming experience, interest to financial markets and risk analysis).
  • Preferable prior knowledge on financial instruments and financial risk management techniques.
  • Previous relevant work experience can be advantageous.
  • Knowledge of financial data/risk systems can be advantageous e.g. Bloomberg, Factset, RiskMetrics.

Responsibilities

  • The internship holder will collaborate with UK Investment Risk Analysts and the Head of Investment Risk Analysis UK across two main dimensions:
  • Regular reporting/oversight (50%):
  • Run regular monitorings carried out by the team, analyse exceptions and escalate issues to investment teams and/or to management as needed.
  • Prepare monthly summaries of investment risk overview covering various UK investment platforms.
  • Participate to regular and ad hoc tasks on the Pricing and Valuation risk stream.
  • Provide analytical support to the SERMs (Senior Expertise Risk Managers) and UK CRO (Chief Risk Officer) where required.
  • Provide support to wider IRAS and GRM teams.
  • Project work/transformation initiatives (50%):
  • Contribute to the enhancement of monitorings and reportings, in terms of quality, depth, efficiency of production, etc.
  • This part of the internship is likely to involve using Python programming to transform and analyse data within AXA IM’s internal environment.

AXA Investment Managers

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Finance
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1997
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Our ambition is to be a leading responsible asset manager. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper and secure a sustainable future for the planet. It is in our DNA and unites everyone across the company. We are a responsible investor We have already seen signs that the global economy is starting to move to a more sustainable and equitable model over the next decade, and we will take an active role in powering that transition. We are a responsible business As a committed active investor we are led by our conviction. With fundamental research at the core of our process, our global team seek out and develop the most efficient and robust sources of performance across our strategies. We know that with conviction, we can advance and best serve the interests of our clients. We are a responsible employer Being responsible is in our DNA as a firm and is central to our ethos as an employer. It is embedded in how we grow and protect our people. It unites our team, from our leaders, to our growing number of specialists, to the newest members of our teams. We are part of the AXA Group Our heritage within AXA Group, a recognised innovator, has hard-wired our business for continual improvement. As our most demanding and challenging client, they help us to achieve excellence. Our relationship with our parent company also means protection and stability are part of our heritage.

Benefits

  • Fixed Remuneration,

  • Discretionary Variable Remuneration,

  • Attractive Local and Global Benefit Programmes

  • Learning and Career Development Opportunities.