What You Will Do: 

The intern will assist the RADAR Securities Evaluation Services (SES) team within Supervision. This team focuses on topics related to fixed income securities and are looking for an intern that has great interest in the fixed income market to support them with their latest project.    

The RADAR SES team has seen a material increase in the number of examinations in which we participate. The selected intern will assist in a wide range of efforts surrounding the database where the SES team store bond-level information about examinations. The intern will work to organize, cleanse, summarize, and visualize the data gathered from this database. This database and the project's findings can provide valuable horizontal information back to examination teams.  

The intern may also assist on various projects related to emerging topics in fixed income, including synthetic securitizations. This will include performing data analysis and helping to form key supervisory takeaways and recommendations. 

The project timeline: 

• Phase 1 (Weeks 1-2): Becoming familiar with system tools, terminology, and databases 

• Phase 2 (Weeks 3-5): Cleanse database data 

• Phase 3 (Week 6): Support development of new templates used by SES analysts on examinations 

• Phase 4 (Weeks 7-9): Summarize the study of horizontal behaviors to generate presentations and products 

• Phase 5 (Week 10): The intern will prepare a presentation summarizing their work and intern experience and present this to the FRB as the capstone to this internship 

What You Have: 

• Currently pursuing a graduate degree in quantitative finance preferred. Other related areas of study will be considered 

Required Skills: 

• Strong technical background 

• Experience working with large data sets 

• Familiarity with R and SQL is strongly preferred 

Preferred Competencies: 

• Ability to solve complex problems 

• Strong analytical skills 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

Other Requirement: This position requires access to confidential supervisory information, which is limited to “Protected Individuals” as defined in the U.S. federal immigration law. Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents who either are not yet eligible to apply for naturalization or who have applied for naturalization within the requisite timeframe. Candidates who are not U.S. citizens must sign a declaration of intent to become a U.S. citizen when eligible to do so and pursue a path to citizenship. In addition, all candidates must undergo an applicable background check and comply with all applicable information handling rules.

Additional Information:

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