Quantitative Finance Associate Programme

Gain experience in quantitative analytics roles in our Markets and Securities Services business, working on cutting-edge projects across different asset classes.

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Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.

We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.

Over the course of a year, you’ll get to:

  • Connect with senior leaders, industry professionals and peers from multiple divisions around the world, who’ll provide career advice and support your learning and development
  • Work alongside like-minded colleagues who share a passion for supporting business decisions with solid analysis
  • Rotate between different asset classes, working on projects that add value to our Markets and Securities Services business across the Trading, Sales, Structuring and Quantitative teams
  • Work directly with clients, traders, structurers, or our risk teams, depending on your desk assignment
  • Complete the Associate Programme and move into a specialist role that suits your skills and personal ambitions

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For: PhD, Advanced Masters or Regional Equivalent
Duration: One year
Areas: Quantitative Finance
Start date: July 2025 onwards
Location: UK
London
Requirements:
  • Available to work full time for one year commencing July 2025 onwards
  • You will have achieved a minimum of a 2:1 Degree classification or higher or overseas equivalent to this. 
  • You will have completed a PhD, Advanced Masters or Regional Equivalent.
  • Fluent in English
Applications open: 21 October 2024
Applications close: 29 November 2024
Start date: July 2025 onwards

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