Quantitative Analytics Associate Off Cycle

**Off-Cycle Internship Overview**
Join us on an Off Cycle Internship for 3-6 months working within our Investment Banking, Markets, Corporate Banking or Quantitative Analytics business areas. Immerse yourself in our work and culture and gain invaluable insights with this longer internship.

**Why Quantitative Analytics Off-Cycle Internship Programme?**
If you join us as an Off-Cycle intern, then you have the opportunity to join the team that delivers world-class solutions.

Our industry-leading group provides model development, analytics, and valuable quantitative advice to businesses across the bank. Compared to our summer internships, this extended off-cycle programme will ensure you gain longer exposure to our projects, enabling you to gain in-depth knowledge into our business area.

**Markets Quants**
Consisting of specialised modellers and developers, the team directly supports the Capital Markets division of the bank. Team members are responsible for researching, innovating, developing, testing, implementing, and supporting all quantitative models used for front-office pricing, valuation adjustments, along with market and counter-party credit risk management across all asset classes. Joining a group that partners with trading, structuring, and risk management functions across the bank, you’ll gain broad exposure to a variety of classic and contemporary financial engineering modelling techniques and markets instruments to help drive business strategy.

**The chance to make an impact**

**A place where you can thrive**
This is a comprehensive internship program that offers extensive training and the potential for a promising career. Exceptional interns showcasing strong work ethic, technical proficiency, and business insight may secure full-time employment opportunities upon internship completion. Throughout the program, you'll engage in both formal and informal training tailored to provide timely knowledge, receive thorough performance coaching & feedback, and have chances to enhance your network and cultivate leadership abilities.

**Quantitative Analytics at Barclays**
Our Quantitative Analytics team is a global organisation of highly specialised modellers and developers responsible for researching, innovating, developing, testing, implementing, and supporting all quantitative models used for valuation and risk management across all asset classes.

Ideally, you would also have:

- Mathematical and programming skills (ideally in C++, or Python)
- Logical thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication skills and a team-oriented attitude
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Passion to learn about the banking sector, financial services industry, and capital markets

**Barclays Europe**
We’ve had a presence in Europe almost as long as there’s been a Barclays. So, we’re building on solid foundations, leveraging our embedded talent, in 10 locations across the region allowing us to draw on a wealth of local and regional insight.

**Working in Paris**
Our office in Paris provides a full investment banking service to our local and global clients. Our integrated coverage model means we are able to provide our clients with access to deep expertise across sectors, regions and products.

**Purpose of the role**

To support the day-to-day operations of the Quantitative Analytics (QA) group by providing analytical insights and expertise that will help our business leaders and stakeholders make informed decisions, support existing trading strategies, develop new products strategies and services, as well as identify new market opportunities.

**Accountabilities**
- Application of the latest quantitative techniques to solve business problems, research, development, and implementation of new models and solutions and improve the bank’s computing and data infrastructure.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams and senior management to progress business initiatives.
- Participation in training and development programmes to enhance skills and knowledge. Conduct research to support strategic decision making, prepare presentations and reports to communicate research findings, and collaborate with senior management to implement research findings.
- Design, development of the quantitative research framework using domain specific languages.
- Participation in technical design and development of the global team’s quantitative research systems, research notebooks and products.
- Training and mentoring of junior colleagues.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate