Address
Form of work2024 Undergraduate Summer Intern - Job Posting
Department Title:
Undergrad Intern - Investment Risk Management Internship- Baltimore (Hybrid)
Position Summary:
What is your Department or Team responsible for?
The fundamental objectives of Franklin Templeton's IRM group include:
The major types of Investment Risk that IRM monitors include liquidity risk, concentration risk, market 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.
Describe the 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).
What can an Intern expect to learn by the end of their internship?
Asset management industry knowledge Data analysis strategies Collaboration through working with the team of risk managers & analysts
How would you sell this job to an Intern?
Key Responsibilities Can Include:
What will this intern be responsible for? Please provide examples if specific job duties are not known at this time.
Industry Research
Assist with the identification of risk trends and patterns across investment strategies
Identify risk drivers across alternative investment strategies
Data Visualization
Build analytical tools to efficiently derive risk insights
Implement metrics to better assess client behavior (SQL, Power BI, statistics)
Automate reconciliation process to ensure data completeness and accuracy (SQL, Power BI)
Digital Transformation
Leverage data science to predict future behavior (Python, statistics)
Implement regression models to derive risk sensitivities among peer groups (Python, statistics)
Ideal Qualifications:
What top qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?
Investment knowledge Data analysis Data visualization tool knowledge
Ready to make moves? Apply today!
When applying, please be sure to attach your resume. Applications without a resume file attachment will not be reviewed.
Due to the large volume of applications anticipated, we may not be able to personally contact every applicant. If you are interested in applying to more than one Franklin Templeton internship, please apply for other internships that pique your interest.
Compensation Range: This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately 40 hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $26 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.
What makes Franklin Templeton unique?
We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture, and is an important element of how we achieve success.
We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.
Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing 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. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company, career opportunities and recruitment process.
Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need an accommodation 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 you are requesting and the job title and 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 requests for accommodations will receive a response.
Department Title:
Undergrad Intern - Investment Risk Management Internship- Baltimore (Hybrid)
Position Summary:
What is your Department or Team responsible for?
The fundamental objectives of Franklin Templeton's 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, 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.
Describe the 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).
What can an Intern expect to learn by the end of their internship?
Asset management industry knowledge Data analysis strategies Collaboration through working with the team of risk managers & analysts
How would you sell this job to an Intern?
- 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
- Ensuring convictions are consistent with Investment Risks and client communications
- Detect and help avoid unintended Investment Risks
- Determine Investment Risk impacts of new portfolio ideas
- Ensuring executive management is aware of key findings
- Delivering governance expected by boards and clients
- Establish and maintain a common Investment Risk framework
- Set independent guidelines to monitor and manage key risks
- Provide independent perspective and challenge governance
- Monitor and administer regulatory investment limits
- Building collective intelligence
- Create insights from having larger views spanning investment teams, specialized investment managers and client portfolios
- Focus in or zoom out on key Investment Risks across the firm
- Identify emergent macro and geopolitical risks
- Providing quantitative portfolio analysis
- 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 risk data quality
- Enhance organizational awareness by conducting Investment Risk oversight
Key Responsibilities Can Include:
What will this intern be responsible for? Please provide examples if specific job duties are not known at this time.
Industry Research
Assist with the identification of risk trends and patterns across investment strategies
Identify risk drivers across alternative investment strategies
Data Visualization
Build analytical tools to efficiently derive risk insights
Implement metrics to better assess client behavior (SQL, Power BI, statistics)
Automate reconciliation process to ensure data completeness and accuracy (SQL, Power BI)
Digital Transformation
Leverage data science to predict future behavior (Python, statistics)
Implement regression models to derive risk sensitivities among peer groups (Python, statistics)
Ideal Qualifications:
What top qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?
Investment knowledge Data analysis Data visualization tool knowledge
Ready to make moves? Apply today!
When applying, please be sure to attach your resume. Applications without a resume file attachment will not be reviewed.
Due to the large volume of applications anticipated, we may not be able to personally contact every applicant. If you are interested in applying to more than one Franklin Templeton internship, please apply for other internships that pique your interest.
Compensation Range: This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately 40 hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $26 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.
What makes Franklin Templeton unique?
We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture, and is an important element of how we achieve success.
We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.
Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing 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. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company, career opportunities and recruitment process.
Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need an accommodation 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 you are requesting and the job title and 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 requests for accommodations will receive a response.
