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Various sessions from different speakers which provided insight into various aspects of the bank, spanning from Asset Management to Global Banking. Opportunity to ask questions to speakers after each session provided to consolidate knowledge.
Our roles depended on which rotation we were on. A lot of the time was spent networking, suggesting trade pitch ideas, presenting on various projects for our desks and consolidating our market knowledge. We also participated in daily trading games and weekly market discussions, and had multiple speaker session arranged for us virtually from global representatives from different divisions. We had the flexibility to make our days as busy as we liked them, which was a bonus.
I worked in the GRAC division, improving the flow of the backend services of the UBS Neo platform, used for visualizing evidence data for investment.
My role included rotations on a sales desk and trading desk. Day-to-day work included reading up on the technical side of the desk, asking the team questions, networking, keeping up to date with markets and working on my desk projects. Desk projects varied from creating a stock pitch to analyzing risk to investigating client relationships. I also researched trades for a virtual trading game we played and had meetings with my team.
- Getting to know the business and the role - Get up to speed with the financial markets and the news - Work out presentations and projects - Weekly sessions to hear from senior people and to learn about other divisions
Market research (trends, landscape, peer group) and creating slides for pitchbook such as creating charts to represent financial metrics.
- Assisting team on day to day tasks of investment banking - Creating pitchbooks for marketing material - Assist in live deals - Huge exposure to senior and work with other teams (product and country teams)
I was part of the Credit Risk team. The main goal of my internship was to create a unit testing coverage report for a given R Model. A typical day would consist of working in Risklab (R language) to perform unit testing (testthat package), create functions and file coverage reports (covr package) and integrate my work within Gitlab. We would also have daily stand-ups where you would give an update about your assigned project.
The role implies the assistance of the team to which the intern is allocated with the every day tasks and activities.
Company profiles, marketing materials, transaction execution (although this varies massively day-to-day, team-to-team)
Leveraged Finance Summer Analyst: - Prepare pitching decks - Using market data applications (LCD, capital structure...) - LBO Modeling on excel - Writing memos (NBCC, ComCo)
I work to remediate data and make sure the future data quality of the whole bank.
Working with the Healthcare team on different transactions
I help in the day by day activities like writing the investment memo, the investment screening, the creditworthiness assessment of the counterparty etc.
First we have a daily team standup where the team discusses the plan for the day and people have the opportunity to ask for help. Next you start work on whatever has been assigned to you. Throughout the day their will be various meetings that can include interesting speaker talks organised by HR.
Listen into the morning market briefing. Proceed to read research updates and market news. Work on projects throughout the day and take calls with team members to discuss work updates.
Networking - shadowing & learning Project based work Creation of PPts and excel work Meeting notes, writing reports Booking trades, managing operational, counterparty and market risk
As an intern there are a few different focus areas: - Actual work- working alongside your team and assisting them where necessary. I was given several tasks to help and improve the processes my team used. For example, one task was looking at analysing headcount- how many people have left/joined etc. Another was looking at analysing the Client Alert Data i.e. when clients have issues (looking at what the issues referred to, which employee they were assigned to, time trends, how serious etc). But obviously this was only one aspect of the overall COO book of work. - Networking- we were really encouraged to network across not only COO but the wider Investment Bank. I would organise 3-5 30 min meetings per week to learn about the different areas within UBS and meet different people. Everyone was super friendly- definitely a highlight of the internship! - Learning- we were also really encouraged to learn about how the Investment Bank runs, the different areas, products, structure etc. There were lots of great internal resources for this such as the UBS university.
On a day-to-day basis, my tasks would vary a lot. I could be creating pitch presentation, teaser documents and management presentation for clients. I could be in client meetings or I could be creating company profiles and complicated excels for trading comps or backups for presentations I am creating.
I was part of the AM COO Business Management team. As part of the team, I was placed on a variety of projects and was even given the opportunity to take responsibility for an important piece of work regarding the control environment. Much of the role involves analysis on excel and creating PowerPoint presentations as well as other documents. I would also attend many skype meetings with team members and different AM functions. I would also help and reach out to team members to support their work.
