Summer Analyst, Firm Risk Management Review

by Morgan Stanley

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Worked in Counterparty Credit Risk analysing pricing of risk on derivatives. Day-to-day was a couple of projects through the internship to understand why exposure calculations were going wrong and what solutions can be found to fix them

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Technical: SQL, python, excel Financial: options and swaps pricing models, partial differential equation models Soft: Presentation, collaboration, listening, problem solving

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • A fair bit. Many tasks were independent, but requires quite a lot of help from manager to understand. Culture isn't hierarchical at all, meaning everyone is given responsibilities

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Manager was great. Regular catch ups with manager helped to focus attention in the right places

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very friendly and caring about everyone's individual growth, both personally and professionally. Collaboration is key, but the amount if meetings is sometimes a bit much. Not what most people would typically assume an investment bank is like, much less cutthroat, and much more inclusive of people from different backgrounds.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 2/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Enjoyed it a lot. I think the firm puts a lot of effort into the programme and making sure everyone feels welcome.

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Morgan Stanley

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Morgan Stanley to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Morgan Stanley

    • The company cares a lot about its 5 core values. If you are applying, definitely understand what they are looking for and don't try to be someone else. Genuinely embodying those values is what will get you an offer, not pretending to be that person.

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

August 2023

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