Recruitment began on January 23, 2025
and the job listing expires on February 24, 2025
Internship Accounting, Data Analytics, Economics & Finance
At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.
Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!
Location: The intern candidate must be able to commute into the Baltimore, MD office each week.
Position Summary:
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
* 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.
We are seeking a summer intern to help our team 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:
* Maintaining risk information for trend and pattern insights.
* Delivering tools for IRM research including visualizations and portals.
* Strengthening transparency and understanding
o Detect and help avoid unintended investment risks.
o Determine investment risk impacts of new portfolio ideas.
* Delivering governance expected by boards and clients
o Maintain a common investment risk framework.
o Provide independent perspective and challenge governance.
o Monitor regulatory investment limits.
* Create insights from having larger views spanning investment teams, specialized investment managers, and client portfolios.
* Identify and track emergent macro and geopolitical risks.
Team Culture:
We are a department 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 Investment Risk Management Intern at Franklin Templeton can expect to learn:
* Asset management industry knowledge
* Technical experience querying large volumes of data
* Fundamentals of data modeling
* Team collaboration through risk managers & analysts
Key responsibilities may include:
* Industry Research
* Assist with the identification of risk trends and patterns across investment strategies
* Identify risk drivers across alternative investment strategies
* 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)
* Leverage data science to predict future behavior (Python, statistics)
* Implement regression models to derive risk sensitivities among peer groups (Python, statistics)
* 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.
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.
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.
Experience our welcoming culture and reach your professional and personal potential!
Our culture is shaped by our diverse global workforce and strongly held core values. 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.
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