Fall 2024 BMO Capital Markets, Data & Reporting Analyst

Application Deadline:

07/21/2024

Address:

100 King Street West

Job Family Group:

Data Analytics & Reporting

BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American-based financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has over 2,800 professionals in 35 locations around the world, including 23 offices in North America.

BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$924 billion total assets and approximately 57,000 employees as of April 30, 2023.

Description

BMO Capital Markets’ Office of the COO is currently looking for co-op students to support our Data and Analytics Strategy Team.

 

The student will be responsible for data-science related support for Capital Markets, enhancing the data and analytics capabilities of the organization.  The candidates will help deliver specific technical solutions / tools for sharpening a holistic cross-business lens. Focus will be on augmenting critical first line platforms for which exceptional programming and data science skills are required. Tasks include: consolidating internal and external data relevant to core businesses (data engineering, validation, enhancement); creation and development of analytics and predictive models using large datasets; producing visualizations and select dashboards to clearly articulate insights to decisionmakers. The position is suited for bright, hard-working individuals who enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. 

 

Qualifications:

• We are looking for highly motivated individuals who can work well in a team-based environment
• Currently in undergraduate studies or masters program with a graduation date of December 2025 or onwards.
• Strong academic record- minimum 3.4 cGPA
• Co-op candidates having a background in data science and exposure to Finance/Accounting via coursework or prior work experience is a plus
• Interest-in, and working knowledge of, capital markets and/or treasury concepts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Above average work ethic and motivation
• Ability to learn quickly and juggle multiple priorities at the same time
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Strong attention to detail, organized, able to work independently
• Strong programming skills with prior development experience
• Comfort working with large data sets; ability to manipulate, conduct analysis, and come to logical conclusions.  Be able to communicate and present to the team
• Solid documentation habits, bias towards explainability
• Capable of building long-term enterprise implementations vs. academic one-offs

Technical Qualifications:

• Web Application Development (C#, ASP .NET, MVC, Web API)
• Database design and T-SQL for writing queries
• Candidates must have advanced technical capabilities in Excel, Python, VBA, Java, and SQL.
• Front-end UI development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React)
• MS Excel
• Solid understanding of statistical concepts

Team Overview:

The Business & Client Analytics team is responsible for generating client information for LOBs across BMO Capital Markets to track core clients and grow share of wallet.

• Develop and integrate internal and external sources of client information

• Provide insight and analysis that can be effectively and efficiently mined to support business decision-making

Client Services and Reporting – Weighting: 50%

• Develop and implement new reporting for Investment and Corporate Banking and Global Markets

• Utilize technical skills to efficiently and effe