Investment Risk Management - Undergrad Intern
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 fundamental objectives of Franklin Templeton’s Investment 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, credit risk, 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, and leveraging established systems
- Expand data accessibility and ensure data quality
- Leverage artificial intelligence and other technology to identify trends and patterns
- The ways in which this person will add value to the firm include:
- Providing quantitative portfolio analysis
- Ensuring accurate portfolio 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
- Determine investment 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 investment managers and client portfolios
- Identify and track emergent macro and geopolitical risks
- Several of the opportunities this person will have to impact the 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 management knowledge
- Technical experience handling large volumes of data
- Fundamentals of data modeling
- Team collaboration
Key Responsibilities Can Include:
1. Industry Research
- Assist with the identification of risk trends and patterns across investment strategies
- Identify risk drivers across investment strategies
2. Data Visualization
- Build analytical tools to efficiently derive risk insights
- Implement metrics to better assess market behavior
- Automate risk model reconciliation process to ensure data completeness and accuracy (SQL, Power BI)
3. Digital Transformation
Ideal Qualifications:
- Background in quantitative finance or related fields
- Experience with using data visualization tools (Power Bi, Tableau, SQL)
- Ability to perform data analysis and industry research
Ready to make moves? Apply today!
Please be sure to attach your resume when submitting your application. Applications submitted without 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. If you're interested 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 approximately 40 (dependent on state/location) hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $26 (dependent on location and function) 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.
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