Deadline:
August 04, 2024
Location(s)
Worldwide
Overview
The FINCAD Women in Finance Scholarship is an award of US$20,000 to support graduate-level studies. The scholarship is open to women of any age and citizenship who are studying Finance in an accredited graduate-level program.
Details
The field of finance is changing rapidly, largely in response to regulations designed to protect market practitioners and to prevent financial crises. FINCAD has long believed that deep market knowledge, transparency and trustworthiness play a critical role in making financial markets safe for all participants.
In addition, FINCAD is keenly aware that the majority of practitioners in the capital markets industry are men, and that the trend to include more women in the industry is not as rapid as it should be.
For these reasons, FINCAD established our annual Women in Finance Scholarship. The goal is to encourage and support outstanding women in the field of finance, particularly those pursuing careers in financial asset management, market risk management and derivatives finance within the capital markets.
The scholarship is open to women of any age and citizenship who are studying Finance in an accredited graduate-level program.
Applications must be submitted by August 4, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. We will not be able to consider applications received after this deadline. The winner of the 2024 Women in Finance Scholarship will receive payment in early Fall 2024.
ABOUT FINCAD
Since 1990, FINCAD has been helping firms make better investment and risk decisions, improve operational efficiency, and reduce operational risk. Back in 1990, FINCAD was just two men working 16-hour days with a vision of making transparency the modus operandi of the derivatives trading space. What has changed since then? For one thing, transparency is no longer the focus of two outliers – it has become one of the fundamental pillars of the financial analytics world.
With well over 125 employees now, and more reasonable work hours, FINCAD is still a growing company with offices in Vancouver, New York, London and Dublin. You might say that FINCAD has been riding the wave of transparency, but the reality is we were one of the first FinTech companies to place our focus on this growing need. Our vision hasn’t changed. We still believe that fundamentally, financial markets will operate reliably if both sides in any given transaction have access to complete information.
At FINCAD, we're as committed now as we were in 1990 to give our clients the accurate information they need to make informed decisions.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
To be eligible for the scholarship, you must:
- Be enrolled and attending a Master's or PhD Finance program on a full-time basis
- Have less than 10 years of total work experience, and less than 5 years of professional experience in the financial field
- Be a female citizen of any country who is enrolled in a post-graduate program in Finance at an accredited university.
DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
You will be required to attach a number of documents in the prescribed file format (jpg, pdf or gif) with the prescribed naming convention (Note: Maximum file size is 20 MB). These include:
- Your resume or CV
- Two letters of reference for the scholarship from appropriate individuals (e.g., professors or other relevant university staff, work supervisors and colleagues)
- University transcript(s) from undergraduate program(s)
- Confirmation of acceptance or enrollment in the post-graduate program for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Any authored papers (optional)
Dates
Deadline: August 04, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
Award value US$20,000.
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