The Data Science Summer Intern at Lazard will work within the Data Analytics Group. The primary responsibility is to help analyze large-scale data sets in finance and extract insights that add value to our Financial Advisory business. The Data Science Summer Intern will have the opportunity to work closely with data scientists, software engineers, investment bankers and senior management across the Firm.
Successful candidates should have a strong quantitative background, including solid statistical modeling skills and hands-on programming experiences.
The summer internship will begin in early June to early August and will run for 10 weeks, concluding in early August.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors or advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Quantitative Finance, Business Analytics, or equivalent with an expected graduation date of 2025.
- Strong programming skills in Python. Experience with object-oriented programming preferred.
- Excellent knowledge of machine learning algorithms and strong statistical/econometric modeling skills
- Ability to query and analyze data from large-scale databases. Prior experience in big data engineering preferred.
- Experience with data visualization and communicating technical results to a non-technical audience.
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with unstructured data and natural language processing (scraping, text classification, topic modelling, and/or value extraction).
- Strong interest or previous experience in finance.
About Lazard
Lazard, one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, operates from 43 cities across 27 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. With origins dating to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals. For more information on Lazard, please visit www.lazard.com.
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Salary:
We expect the base salary for this role to be approximately $100,000 USD