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 …

…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.