A Career in Financial Services.

1 Introduction Financial Services (including companies covering brokerage, insurance, credit cards and commercial banking), is often used as a generic term describing businesses outside of Investment Banking and Commerce & Industry. The diversity of businesses is immense and exposes employees to both a wide variety of international transactions and heavy involvement with senior business managers. The roles range from raising capital for new business start-ups to analysing a trade in Latin America and from lending money …showed first 75 words of 1658 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1658 total…well as complex transactions analysed in order to calculate what capital should be kept in a banks reserves BACKGROUND: Invariably a quantitative education is required such as a numerate degree maths, physics, chemistry, engineering and this is usually supplemented by an MsC in a similar subject - modelling skills are advantageous as are knowledge of programming codes SQL,VBA,C++ CAREER PROGRESSION: a move to board management, trading and quantitative analysis are all potential moves.