Credit Risk Analyst Cooper

Anything exciting coming up?(besides halloween) What do you do outside of work, like hobbies?


Day to day as an intern:

  • get to the office 8:30-9:00am

  • read the market about your managers particular field (health care was his) so he took notes about HC

  • financial modeling for a company, case study, sort of project

  • coffee chats with higher ups

  • a lot of research and financial modeling summeraized

Could you walk me through how you landed your summer analyst role, and when you started recruiting for it

  • finance specifically in banking recruiting timelines is advanced

  • reached out to a bunch of people like i did

  • had a limiting gpa so he carved out a “niche”, so talked to as many people as he could

  • ^he says its about who you know, not too much what u know

What did you do durning the internship to stand out, and how did the return offer process work?

  • go into the office everyday with a smile in your face happy to learn

  • ^people have been in the industry for decades so they know how bad you really know it

  • ^the more interested/curious you are the better

Why Credit Risk Analyst?

  • very research heavy field, looking a lot of economic markets

  • was also interested in investment banking, didnt like the hours

  • was also interested in WM, talked to a lot of people in MS, didnt want it because he was talking to clients a lot, you make your own hours, connecting clients with lawyers

  • ^you had to tailor your social skills cause your talking to people with insane networths

  • jpmorgan also has WM, they call it Private Bank

What skills or particular classes from leeds have been the most useful on the job?

  • a class called financial modeling, cuz hes in excel everyday

  • ^ took it his junior year

  • finance 4050, called capital investment analysis , professor donchez or something


What would you tell a first year like me who wants to be a strong candidate in a few years

  • extra curricular’s leadership roles


Is there anyone else you’d recommend I connect with?(maybe someone at MS in WM? or someone in JPM in the Private Bank)

Work rn, culture

  • Works a lot with people who got out of college on a similar timeline he did, maybe 2-3 years older

  • occasionally talks to higher ups when they demand him to do something