State Street Enterprise Risk Management - Quantitative Risk Internship - Summer 2026

State Street • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Who we are looking for A strong quantitative candidate to join the team as an intern based in New Jersey, or Boston. This role is part of the Centralized Modeling, Analytics and Operations Group within Enterprise Risk Management’s Financial Risk Organization. Why this role is important to us The team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. To make that happen we need teams like yours to help navigate employees and the organization as a whole. In your role you will strive for cutting-edge solutions, that are straightforward and scalable. You will help us build resilience and execute day to day deliverables at our best. Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

Requirements

• Strong analytical and quantitative mindset; ability to take ownership and improve on existing risk models and methodologies
• Energetic/motivator: an enthusiastic individual with proven leadership skills and an ability to motivate a diverse, multi-level workforce and instill a sense of urgency on a range of evolving goals and objectives
• Organizational strengths: an ability to organize projects, processes and priorities to ensure business needs are met in a coordinated, responsive and timely manner, with minimal direction
• Confidence: a self-assured, experienced and knowledgeable individual able to quickly garner support for his/her views based on informed, well-presented direction or analysis, with a willingness to negotiate, and concede, when needed
• Communicator: clear, confident, self-assured communication style, coupled with an ability to react and adapt to various audiences and environments without diluting effectiveness
• Undergraduate student in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, mathematics, or equivalent with strong programming skills
• Strong programming skills in Python/R/C/C++/SQL, etc.
• Motivated and fascinated in how to apply statistics and econometric methodologies to resolve risk modeling challenges in financial industry
• Strong presentation and communication skills, e.g. PowerPoint slides preparation and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain credit risk models (PD/LGD/EL) to provide quantitative support to credit risk analytical processes for State Street’s Commercial Real Estate (CRE) portfolio
• Enhance credit portfolio risk models for CCAR/CECL/IFRS9/BASEL/Ratings/ICAAP use cases, as well as for economic capital
• Review and enhance credit risk and market risk analytical methodology including modeling choices and variable selection (especially macroeconomic variables) in line with expanding business and regulatory requirements
• Review and verify key model assumptions with model owners
• Review model outputs with properly justified opinions and judgments by experts from credit risk and market risk managers to capture forward-looking financial market and macro-economic outlooks
• Implement internally developed models on risk analytical library platform
• Streamline the existing modeling and analytical process; increasing the pace of execution to meet the needs of the business
• Work in close partnership with the three lines of defense functions, such as model governance, Corporate Audit and Financial Regulatory Assurance to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure for credit risk analytics
• Prepare and present required reports/reviews to model risk management, senior management and global regulators

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
• For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees