International Equities Associate – 2025 Intern (Europe)

at  Citadel Enterprise Americas

JOB DESCRIPTION

As we seek to become the most successful investment team in the world, our investment teams create portfolios of equity securities through collaboration with portfolio managers, analysts, associates and traders. Our Investment Associates (IAs) focus on a small number of stocks and learn everything they can about those companies. They build and maintain detailed financial models; work with data sources to build their insight into company fundamentals; and perform many other forms of primary and analytical research to help their team understand each company as thoroughly as possible.
As a participant in our internship summer program, you will experience first-hand long-short equities investing from the inside of one of the world’s most preeminent hedge funds.
Over the summer, we will offer training focused on key Associate building blocks – basic financial modeling, dissecting a company’s future business prospects, and distinguishing between good and bad businesses, and attractive and unattractive investment opportunities, among other areas. It will also provide extensive exposure to Citadel’s best-in-class infrastructure, allowing participants to understand how the right technology investing applications and risk management systems help drive repeatable investing process and best in class performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Learn smart and efficient financial modeling techniques
• Gain exposure to innovative research tactics including identifying and mining external data sources
• Apply analytical and research skills to executing an investment process
• Experience best-in-class research technology and quantitative risk systems

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Bachelor’s in applied math, economics, engineering, statistical modeling, calculus, computer science, physics or related disciplines required
• Strong organization skills to help create and maintain investment team infrastructure
• Desire and ability to learn and apply efficient financial modeling techniques
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to leverage incomplete and imperfect information into a well-formulated thesis
• Skill in utilizing third party data sets to support or refute pillars of an argument
• Genuine interest in finance and working in the investment industry
• Interest in learning and applying new technology applications

• Learn smart and efficient financial modeling techniques
• Gain exposure to innovative research tactics including identifying and mining external data sources
• Apply analytical and research skills to executing an investment process
• Experience best-in-class research technology and quantitative risk system