Jobs at Lazard

A mentorship and career-development program for U.S. university student veterans pursuing investment banking. Participants receive mentorship from Lazard’s veteran community, build professional networks, learn about analyst and associate roles, connect with Financial Advisory groups, and improve their resumes and interview skills.

Leads AI transformation for investment teams by defining the AI roadmap, building and evaluating LLM-powered research tools, and delivering production workflows for portfolio managers and analysts. Responsibilities include technical architecture, backlog and release ownership, RAG and agentic application development, investment data integration, governance, compliance, user adoption, training, and benefits tracking.

Summer Associate supporting Lazard’s M&A and Restructuring teams in New York. Responsibilities include financial analysis and modeling, preparing client presentations, advising on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, capital structure, and strategic transactions, and interacting directly with clients. Associates work within industry-focused teams while receiving formal training, mentorship, and opportunities to collaborate across the firm.

Nine-week summer internship supporting private capital advisory across primary fundraising, secondary advisory, and GP capital advisory. Responsibilities include preparing marketing materials and fund documentation, building financial and portfolio models, managing virtual data rooms and bidder trackers, researching private markets, analyzing portfolios and bids, coordinating investor outreach and due diligence, and supporting M&A and strategic advisory mandates.

Lead finance technology modernization across legacy and contemporary systems. Develop full-stack applications using Python, Angular or React, optimize databases and SQL, build ETL pipelines, and apply AI to reconciliation, analytics, anomaly detection, and workflow automation. Own technology roadmaps, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, software quality, security, scalability, and stakeholder communication within an asset-management environment.

Leads global financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling, performance analysis, and finance transformation initiatives. Partners with senior leadership, regional finance teams, Investor Relations, Middle Office, and IT to deliver actionable insights, Board materials, earnings-call analyses, expense reviews, cash forecasts, and strategic recommendations. Manages one finance professional and oversees reporting improvements, data quality, automation, and process efficiency.

Owns governance, domain modeling, quality, architecture, and delivery oversight for investment operations data products covering holdings, transactions, valuation, NAV, AUM, and flows. Partners with Operations, Accounting, Finance, and Data Engineering to establish certified, AI-ready data products, contracts, lineage, semantic definitions, and consumption paths. Leads through data product owners, influences global stakeholders, and reports roadmap progress, adoption, quality, and process automation.

Manages sales and assets-under-management data operations across third-party distribution channels. Owns data feeds, quality standards, territory and compensation data, Salesforce integrations, ETF reporting, vendor relationships, controls, stakeholder reporting, and process automation. Partners with sales, Finance, technology teams, custodians, recordkeepers, and data providers to resolve discrepancies and improve reporting accuracy.

Leads Lazard’s global services model, translating transformation operating models into delivery plans, transitioning capabilities, establishing onshore and service-center operations, and overseeing ongoing performance. Owns provider governance, commercial negotiations, service levels, productivity, automation commitments, regulatory requirements, risk resilience, continuity planning, and value realization. Partners with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders to influence delivery sequencing, capacity, readiness, and continuous process improvement across a regulated financial-services environment.

Leads the firm-wide operating framework for deploying and governing AI systems. Owns AI lifecycle operations, production readiness, evaluation, monitoring, security, documentation, governance, and risk controls. Partners with engineering, data science, security, business, and control teams to scale responsible AI capabilities, address threats such as prompt injection and data exposure, and report operational health to senior management.

Nine-week restructuring internship involving financial analysis and modeling, company and industry research, client presentation development, and interaction with senior bankers and clients. Analysts support in-court and out-of-court restructurings, liability management, and market analysis while receiving formal training, mentorship, and exposure to live transactions.

Summer Analyst supporting shareholder advisory and activism defense engagements for public company boards and executives. Responsibilities include analyzing shareholder bases, investor reactions, M&A and capital allocation decisions, corporate strategy, financial policies, and shareholder activism risks. The role involves quantitative data analysis, modeling, preparation of client materials, collaboration with sector banking teams, and managing multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment.

Summer Analyst supporting Lazard’s Capital Solutions team with capital-raising, debt financing, structured equity, M&A, refinancing, restructuring, and capital markets transactions. The role involves quantitative and financial analysis, transaction execution, client support, and collaboration across advisory groups. Analysts receive comprehensive training, mentorship, and exposure to senior bankers and client representatives.

Nine-week summer analyst internship in New York covering M&A, restructuring, divestitures, strategic advisory, and capital markets. Responsibilities include financial analysis and modeling, company and industry research, client presentation development, and interaction with senior bankers and clients. The program includes comprehensive training, mentorship, leadership exposure, and networking opportunities.

Supports corporate and sponsor clients with corporate finance, capital structure, capital raising, M&A, refinancing, ratings analysis, and separation advisory. Performs financial and capital structure analyses, evaluates debt and equity financing options, and assists with client presentations and advisory assignments. Participates in training, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration while gaining exposure to public and private capital markets.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of production-grade full-stack applications for investment and distribution teams. Build Python backend services, APIs, relational database integrations, and React-based interfaces. Embed and productionize AI and machine learning capabilities, use cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices, and establish engineering standards through testing and reviews. Collaborate with engineers, data specialists, and financial-services stakeholders to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.

Leads modernization of Lazard Asset Management’s data estate by defining enterprise data strategy, migrating legacy systems to a cloud-native platform, establishing DataOps, and delivering governed data products and APIs. The role owns architecture, security, regulatory controls, operational KPIs, AI-ready data, and production-safe migrations while building and mentoring a high-performing data engineering team.

Build and maintain external market data ETL pipelines and warehouses using Snowflake, Databricks, Sybase, Azure, dbt, and Python. Troubleshoot data access and performance issues, optimize data consumption for cost and reliability, design Azure data delivery channels, and coordinate deployments with infrastructure teams. The role also contributes to backend database development, data architecture, operational excellence, testing, and performance optimization within financial services.

Portfolio Management Summer Intern supporting portfolio monitoring, risk and exposure analysis, data gathering, performance attribution, investment commentary, committee materials, client presentations, and research projects. The role uses financial data and quantitative analysis to support investment professionals, with opportunities to present findings and develop expertise in portfolio management, financial markets, statistics, and data-driven investment processes.

Ten-week equity research internship focused on emerging markets and investment management. The intern will support investment professionals, analyze current and prospective holdings, conduct fundamental and quantitative research, participate in company meetings and industry conferences, and present a final investment pitch to senior management. Responsibilities require financial modeling, corporate analysis, strong communication, intellectual curiosity, and familiarity with generative AI tools.