Quantitative Analytics Intern

Hilltop Holdings is a diversified financial services company seeking a Quantitative Analytics Intern for its summer program. The intern will support quantitative analysis and model development, apply statistical modeling techniques to risk and profitability analyses, and collaborate with teams across credit, risk, accounting, treasury, and IT.

What you'll do:

• Under the direction of the Manager of Quantitative Analytics, interact with various groups within the organization, including credit, risk, accounting, treasury, and IT
• Apply statistical and other modeling techniques to stress credit, market, liquidity or profitability risk, research academic or industry literature to support new model development and create simulations and other analysis to test them
• Learn about new market developments across banking, mortgage, and investment industries
• Desire to learn about career opportunities in the quantitative analytics and/or financial services industry
• Direct interaction with senior leaders across each line of business
• Other duties as assigned

What they're looking for:

• Excellent verbal, written and communication skills
• Proven self-starter who can initiate tasks and follow up to completion
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills
• Exceptional analytical skills; above average attention to detail
• Ability to review, manipulate, and analyze large, complex data sets
• Undergraduate or graduate students pursuing a degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or other quantitative disciplines
• Candidate MUST have authorization to work for any employer in the US without requiring sponsorship, whether in student status or not