Quantitative Finance Associate Programme

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  Location

  (UK) and London

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  Job Reference

  21319

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  Functional Area/Experience

  Business, Accounting & Finance / Fresh Graduate

Job Description & Qualifications

Gain experience in quantitative analytics roles in our Markets and Securities Services business, working on cutting-edge projects across different asset classes.

What you’ll do

Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.

We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.

Over the course of a year, you’ll get to:

• Connect with senior leaders, industry professionals and peers from multiple divisions around the world, who’ll provide career advice and support your learning and development
• Work alongside like-minded colleagues who share a passion for supporting business decisions with solid analysis
• Rotate between different asset classes, working on projects that add value to our Markets and Securities Services business across the Trading, Sales, Structuring and Quantitative teams
• Work directly with clients, traders, structurers, or our risk teams, depending on your desk assignment
• Complete the Associate Programme and move into a specialist role that suits your skills and personal ambitions

Who you are

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, not just those who’ve studied finance-related degrees, or those who have knowledge of banking.

It takes a broad range of skills to be successful at HSBC. We’re looking forward to seeing the mix of skills you’ve learned so far, and hearing about the unique perspective that you’ll bring to our teams. We’ll help you learn everything else.

To join us on this programme, you’ll need to be:

• Finishing, or have recently finished, a PhD, Advanced Masters or equivalent degree in mathematics, computer science, engineering, quantitative finance or other STEM-related fields
• A committed researcher who likes to think analytically and be part of a team
• A keen problem solver with a foundation of mathematical techniques, plus strong coding and independent research skills
• Able to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively
• Able to find solutions to challenging problems creatively and efficiently

What you’ll learn

We’ll help you develop the technical skills most relevant to your role. We’ll also provide plenty of opportunities to advance your non-technical skills, like relationship management and collaboration, that will help you move your career forward successfully.

During your time on the programme, you’ll:

• Advance your quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills in various application fields, such as derivatives modelling, financial products engineering, credit analysis, algorithmic trading, data science and machine learning
• Gain valuable experience of handling large and complicated data sets
• Develop your coding skills in languages like Python and learn numerical techniques such as Monte Carlo simulations and differential equations, machine learning and AI
• Hone your ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and find the right balance between theoretical research and practical implementation
• Have plenty of other opportunities to develop your behavioural, cognitive and technical skills, plus people to support you along the way, ensuring you’re well prepared for the future

Ready to apply?

We encourage early applications as we recruit on a rolling basis and applications may close before the advertised date if all vacancies are filled.

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For:PhD, Advanced Masters or Regional Equivalent

Duration:One year

Areas:Quantitative Finance

Start date:July 2025 onwards

Location:UK, London

Requirements:

• Available to work full time for one year commencing July 2025 onwards
• You will have achieved a minimum of a 2:1 Degree classification or higher or overseas equivalent to this. 
• You will have completed a PhD, Advanced Masters or Regional Equivalent.
• Fluent in English

Applications open:21 October 2024

Applications close:29 November 2024

Start date:July 2025 onwards