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2026 Enterprise Risk Management Summer Internship

Brown Brothers Harriman
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Dec 2025
💰 $50,000/yr

About the role

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Step into the world of strategic foresight as a Risk Analyst Intern. We’re looking for sharp minds and bold thinkers to join Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) through our internship program - your pathway to real-world finance, global markets, and the kind of professional development that sets you apart. We value our internship programs as they help us identify our future hires and leaders.

What You’ll Experience in BBH’s Internship Program:

  • Overview: Experience a dynamic 10-week internship where you will be fully immersed in BBH’s culture and business needs
  • Hands-On Learning: Dive into meaningful projects in areas like investment management, operations, technology and client services
  • Mentorship That Matters: Work side-by-side with industry leaders who are invested in your growth
  • Professional Development: Sharpen your skills through workshops, speaker series, and networking events designed to accelerate your career. Receive continuous and personalized feedback throughout the program – empowering you to grow, refine your skills, and help you navigate your path to success
  • Collaborative Environment: Join a tight-knit team where your ideas are heard, your contributions matter and your potential is unleashed
  • On-Site Presence: Immerse yourself in our company culture and accelerate your professional development with your daily in-office presence
  • Community: Make a positive impact by volunteering in our philanthropic program – BBHcares while connecting with fellow BBHers

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting Risk Analysts for its Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function. ERM encompasses risk management teams dedicated to risk management across BBH business lines inclusive of investment management, markets, and technology. The roles entail the ongoing development of metrics and analyses in support of control implementation and risk oversight of these areas. These roles also provide the opportunity to work with a variety of teams across lines of business with exposure to senior leaders, portfolio managers, traders, and research analysts. You will be one of the core members in the second line of defense risk function dedicated to one of the above business lines.  In this role, you will gain in-depth knowledge of financial products, regulatory compliance, risk measurement tools, and trading processes.

What you can expect from a Risk Analyst Internship with BBH:  

  • Support and enhance risk oversight through use analytic tools (e.g. Python, PowerBI/Tableua, Excel/VBA) including creation of dashboards, risk analytics, and reporting.
  • Develop scripts or queries to extract and assess system and application data for control validation and issue testing
  • Collaborate with business areas to provide / interpret data insights and ensure timely remediation of control issues and deficiencies
  • Prepare ad hoc risk analysis as required by senior business or risk personnel or as required for proposed products or services. 
  • Participate in other team initiatives such as large-scale projects, including new product initiatives.
  • Assess complex problems, identify patterns, and develop data driven solutions.
  • Engage, communicate, and collaborate effectively with traders, portfolio managers, and technology partners.

ERM Graduate Rotation Program

Return offers for the ERM team will be placed into the ERM Rotation Program built to give early career Risk professionals exposure to various risk pathways and a unique broad experience across BBH’s Technology Risk areas - Cyber/Technology Risk, Line of Business Risk and Markets/Financial Risk.

What the Risk Management group looks for in an Intern:

  • Current Junior in College, entering senior year in Fall of 2026 with a passion for finance, computer science, or statistics.
  • Strong academic achievement as evidenced through a GPA of 3.3 or higher.
  • Intermediate proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, i.e. Comfortable using common formulas (e.g., VLOOKUP, IF), building basic charts, and creating/manipulating pivot tables for simple analysis.
  • Working knowledge with Python, SQL, Qlik, Spotfire, Sisense or other analytical & BI tools
  • Comfortable working with large data sets that require joining tables from disparate databases
  • Strong technical writing and briefing skills.
  • Ability to learn quickly,

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