Company Description

Over the last twenty years, MarketAxess has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.

Job Description

If you are graduating in December 2022 or May 2023 and are interested in exploring a career that places you at the cross-roads of financial services and technology, please read more about our intern opportunity below. 

Our Internship program is geared towards rising seniors and will provide valuable work experience to help develop your professional skills.

As an intern, you will work with the Credit Analytics/Risk team to support a number of efforts across our current strategic initiatives and provide key insights and assistance in the development, production, and automation of new BI tools and reports.

What You’ll Do

• Proactively analyze data to answer create metrics and self-service reporting around key questions from stakeholders or out of self-initiated curiosity with an eye for what drives business performance
• Create and deploy custom models to understand a diverse set of business initiatives including credit risk metrics/stress scenarios, probability of default, and client behavior
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources and data-gathering techniques
• Communicate findings effectively and translate them into recommended actions
• Design, build, and maintain automated reporting dashboards on our BI platform (Tableau and Python)

What You Bring to the Table

• Working towards Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral Degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering, or related field with an analytics or quantitative focus (graduating in Dec 2022 or May 2023)
• Proficient with statistical computer languages such as Python, R, SQL, etc.
• Experience in statistical and data mining techniques, including generalized linear model/regression, random forest, boosting, trees, text mining, social network analysis
• Experience designing and visualizing/presenting data using BI tools like Tableau, Google Visualization, Spotfire, QlikView, MicroStrategy, etc.
• Strong interest in data architectures and machine learning techniques such as clustering, decision tree learning, and artificial neural networks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly focused, organized and detail oriented
• Comfortable deconstructing complex and open-ended problems which may not yield a clear-cut solution
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and carry out assignments to completion based on the original goals with minimal supervision

Additional Information

What’s In It For You?

In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:

• Healthcare and wellness options
• Training and tuition assistance
• Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.