Financial Risk Specialists

As a risk consultant, I have found it pivotal to have an open mind with exceptional team working skills. You spend a lot of time with the same people so it’s important to be able to speak with these people in order to gain knowledge about area you aren’t familiar with. In addition, the risk divis...

My team was pretty flexible so I was able to come in at 9 on most days. Typically, I would be at my desk in the morning for about 15 minutes before receiving any instructions from my associate. In this time, I checked and replied to emails, did some research on our client, did research on the reg...

As a risk consultant, I have found it pivotal to have an open mind with exceptional team working skills. You spend a lot of time with the same people so it’s important to be able to speak with these people in order to gain knowledge about area you aren’t familiar with. In addition, the risk divis...

Risk Management and Insurance is a desirable field for many employers when considering perspective employees. Risk Management is required in every field whether that is finance, marketing, insurance, or even in the medical field. As long as there are homes, cars, and doctors, insurance will alway...

What I like: you have huge exposure to different products within an asset class. If you are an equity trader, you may focus on only 1,2 products. But being an equity market risk manager, you and your team (3, 4 people) will have to oversee all products within equity: cash equity, program trading,...

My team was pretty flexible so I was able to come in at 9 on most days. Typically, I would be at my desk in the morning for about 15 minutes before receiving any instructions from my associate. In this time, I checked and replied to emails, did some research on our client, did research on the reg...

For the AIS risk management position you have to be able to go through a lot of investment and legal documentation such prospectuses and partnership agreements. You also have to have an understanding of the different investment vehicles out there. Also, be familiar with the investment terminologi...

The tasks of a Risk Assurance Practice, Financial Services Process Assurance Intern vary based on your team and industry. I personally worked with a financial institution where the team was in the beginning phases of the audit. Thus, we sat in on a lot of calls with the core audit team, reviewing...

As an intern, I did all the work assigned by my supervisors and managers, like giving files to our clients face to face, compiling slides presented to our clients, preparing documents to win a contract, collecting info and materials for a business plan, doing research on an industry or a company....

This department advises banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions (e.g. REITs) regarding its risk management activities and compliance/legal requirements. As a result as intern you either work in the quant section (verifying the internal risk management measures, helping to deve...

Usually they give you an offer after yur internship, then you work as analyst -> consultant -> senior consultant -> manager -> senior manager -> director -> partner. If you are extremely good you can make it to manager after your fourth year.

You have to be adaptable and persistent first and foremost as you might be switching from legal to quant frequently, which can be challenging. If you want to do the quant part fulltime programming skills in R, matlab, or VBA are a huge advantage.

They did not ask me any behavior questions. Every question is technical. First around is more about statistics and math. Content includes statistic model, series etc (topics covered in ECON203 and MATH241). The second round is more like, they give you 1 or 2 days to get familiar with the current ...

8:30-9:30am: arrive in office and have morning meeting to report project process to clients. 9:30-11:59am: working on the projects. Manager will assign you the tasks. 12:00-1:00pm: lunch break 1:00-4:00pm: keep working on projects 4:00-5:00pm: have meeting with the other project team and clients ...

Like: very experienced and talented team members. Everyone is super smart and super responsible; the work I was working on requires lots of excel and data analysis, which can be very helpful for future career. Dislike: working from 9am to 8pm can be pretty stressful and tiring.

As a risk consultant, I have found it pivotal to have an open mind with exceptional team working skills. You spend a lot of time with the same people so it’s important to be able to speak with these people in order to gain knowledge about area you aren’t familiar with. In addition, the risk divis...

Success at Protiviti rides on quite a few things. I would say communication is important. You have to ask a lot of questions and constantly adapt to feedback in order to perform your work properly. Be adaptable, be coachable, and and always be dedicated to being the best employee you can be. It's...

The ability to communicate with people from all backgrounds and be willing to ask questions when you genuinely do not understand something. To them it looks like you are overly invested and eager to learn about what they do everyday.

RSM is great with work-life balance, they are flexible with your needs outside of the firm. You need to be really good about communication though, as soon as you know you need to bring it to managements attention.

Time management, prioritizing, and being able to learn as you work - a lot of what we do you learn on the job, you should be able to understand what you're doing while you're doing it.

The credit analyst assesses the companies that the investment bank trades with to make recommendations to the Sales & Trading team on the size of the trades (and risk) the bank should take on each company they trade with. The credit analyst also uses their assessment of the financial stability of...

Expected compensation is about $33/hr or the hourly equivalent of $60k a year. It was a very strict 35 hour week though.

I’d say the main qualities that should be highlighted for an interview for the position would be knowledge of Excel, an attention to detail, and a willingness to learn a lot of high-level information about AIG (as in overarching and general information about how the company and its subsidiaries o...

My team was pretty flexible so I was able to come in at 9 on most days. Typically, I would be at my desk in the morning for about 15 minutes before receiving any instructions from my associate. In this time, I checked and replied to emails, did some research on our client, did research on the reg...

Discuss relevant courses - you don’t have to be an accounting major (or even in the business school) for this position, but highlight how classes have taught you to think analytically, creatively, and globally. Also, any customer/client facing roles you may have had are very important to discuss,...

The tasks of a Risk Assurance Practice, Financial Services Process Assurance Intern vary based on your team and industry. I personally worked with a financial institution where the team was in the beginning phases of the audit. Thus, we sat in on a lot of calls with the core audit team, reviewing...

PwC's risk assurance team is actually split into a number of different branches, and each one does slightly different work that falls under the general 'audit' umbrella. The branches are Digital Trust Solutions (Cybersecurity), Governance Risk & Compliance, Internal Audit, and Trust & Transparenc...

EY is a giant global firm and I wanted to gain experience with the firms that are the best at what they do. When it comes to starting your career it's all about the experience you gain, and who you know. So, working at a place like EY that has over 3,000 employees in the Philly office and 250,000...

1. Be open to adapt to new environment, to meet different people and to accept new opportunities 2. Be proactive. It is better to ask for work and ask to learn rather than waiting for others to tell us what to do. 3. Be responsible to our work and own our mistakes. You might want to do more than ...

EY's company culture is one of the most important reasons why a lot of EY employees take up the immense work pressure with such a positive atmosphere. We, at EY, foster a culture of knowledge sharing, room for personal expansion, diversity and above all open and direct one-to-one communication. I...

For an intern position, key qualities that EY looks for is a friendly personality and an eagerness to learn. It can be difficult for an interviewer to determine how you are as a person so that is why it is key to answer their questions in a personalized and friendly manner. Be sure to support you...

As a first year consultant, most days were pretty busy at Deloitte but also very rewarding. While there was no mandatory arrival and departture times, consultants are accountable for their tasks and teamwork is very important in completing projects and serving clients. Busy season can require lon...

I was actually hired by Deloitte straight out of college as part of a co-op program. I went to Drexel University for my undegrad, and my program allowed me to complete 3 full time 6 month co-ops during my time there. In my third year I applied to Deloitte for my last co-op, and upon completion of...

RSM is great with work-life balance, they are flexible with your needs outside of the firm. You need to be really good about communication though, as soon as you know you need to bring it to managements attention.

Time management, prioritizing, and being able to learn as you work - a lot of what we do you learn on the job, you should be able to understand what you're doing while you're doing it.

My team was pretty flexible so I was able to come in at 9 on most days. Typically, I would be at my desk in the morning for about 15 minutes before receiving any instructions from my associate. In this time, I checked and replied to emails, did some research on our client, did research on the reg...

I like numbers and finding patterns so looking through the HARs and explaining patterns was very interesting for me. They had us work a lot with the other interns with lots of teams and it really helped me to learn to work with others better. Since JP Morgan is such a big bank they had very large...

KYC stands for know your customer. The bank had to submit a file for each client to the government in regards to the ethics of each client and to make sure nothing illegal is going on. So what we did was look through historical activity reports (HARs) and read some information from someone close ...

You’re given a client for me it was a company. We called them Ultimate Parents because they owned multiple company’s underneath them which are called subsidiaries. Your job is to keep the clients profile up to date to determine the risk level either it be high or low. KYC is crucial because we ne...

Discuss relevant courses - you don’t have to be an accounting major (or even in the business school) for this position, but highlight how classes have taught you to think analytically, creatively, and globally. Also, any customer/client facing roles you may have had are very important to discuss,...

It's difficult to say what one day in the life of an intern at Protiviti could be like since it is so dynamic and changes rapidly. Mainly, you're working on projects, or audits, and interns are expected to do the "testing" on these audits. Testing usually involves reviewing data and documentation...

I enjoyed the rotational aspect of the internship the most because I got to work with various professionals and learn what some of the different service lines do on a day-to-day basis. I also thought it was fun to get to know the other interns. There were events throughout the summer which allowe...

The Launch Internship at EY is an amazing experience! I truly enjoyed my internship and made some valuable connections along the way. As for the skills needed, I would say to bring your best attitude and be open to learning from others. The firm will train you on everything, and they will make su...

EY is a giant global firm and I wanted to gain experience with the firms that are the best at what they do. When it comes to starting your career it's all about the experience you gain, and who you know. So, working at a place like EY that has over 3,000 employees in the Philly office and 250,000...

EY's company culture is one of the most important reasons why a lot of EY employees take up the immense work pressure with such a positive atmosphere. We, at EY, foster a culture of knowledge sharing, room for personal expansion, diversity and above all open and direct one-to-one communication. I...

For an intern position, key qualities that EY looks for is a friendly personality and an eagerness to learn. It can be difficult for an interviewer to determine how you are as a person so that is why it is key to answer their questions in a personalized and friendly manner. Be sure to support you...

In terms of skills, I think soft skills are always important. You probably will work in a small team at a client site for each project. Therefore, good communication and personal interaction skills will help you develop better relations with both the team and the client that you work with. Good w...