What you'll be doing

Join our Global Markets team as a Student Analyst or Associate on our eTrading Quant team in this 12-month role and become part of a team focused on delivering innovative banking and investment solutions to CIBC's retail, wealth and business clients including corporates, governments and institutional clients around the world. Our goal remains to be the leading Capital Markets franchise in Canada and to work as one team to build our brand across North America and the world - proudly living our values as we work toward our vision to be the leader in client relationships.

Our Global Markets business comprises our sales, trading, structuring and research teams spanning cash and derivative products in foreign exchange, commodities, rates and equities in addition to securitization, prime brokerage, money markets and more. We are widely recognized for our capabilities and leadership in these areas and remain committed to investing in technology and talent to drive innovation and scalable growth.

The FX eTrading Quant team develops quantitative models, pricing algorithms, and analytics for the electronic foreign exchange (FX) business. We move quickly on our ideas and test our hypotheses relentlessly. Working closely with both trading, sales, and business analysts, you will help drive the business forward by building out internal applications, infrastructure, analytics, and pricing/market making algorithms.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. To successfully perform the work, you'll be on-site full-time.

The expected annualized base salary for this role is $100,000.

The base salary is determined by a variety of factors, including the candidate's skills, experience, and job-related knowledge, as well as geographic location and specific business needs. Our compensation philosophy supports ongoing growth and development, enabling progression within the salary range as team members advance in their roles.

We are committed to providing fair, equitable, and competitive compensation opportunities for all employees, and we encourage open conversations about compensation throughout the recruitment process.

Important information

• You are enrolled a Bachelor's or Master's degree with significant coursework related to software development and Computer Science, with a graduation date no earlier than August 2028.

• Experience in software development in two or more general purpose programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, or C++.

• Include your resume and your most recent unofficial transcript with your application. These should all be uploaded into the resume section of your application in a PDF format in one single document.

• Location: Toronto.

• Duration of Work Term: 12 months (May 2027 - April 2028).

• This posting will close on Friday September 29th, at 11:59 pm EST. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; we encourage you to apply as soon as possible

How you'll succeed

• Passion for financial markets - Demonstrate strong technical, quantitative, and analytical skills, with keen interest in the financial markets and proven record of academic success, teamwork and extracurricular involvement.

• Process oriented - Present detailed analysis, financial modeling, structuring, and research to support senior professionals and help to identify opportunities to win business, execute transactions, automate existing processes and develop new businesses.

• Communication - Partner with your team to make an impact by applying a technical skillset to help generate insights and/or optimize processes. Showcase highly effective written, oral and presentation skills with an ability to explain complex concepts.

• Relationship management - Provide excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to contribute to high-performance teams and a demonstrate commitment to acting with integrity.

Who you are

• You have demonstrated interest in Capital Markets. You are highly motivated, accomplished and a success-oriented individual who has a keen interest in pursuing a career in finance and/or Market making industry demonstrated through school courses, clubs and/or related work experience.

• You're digitally savvy. You build software in collaboration with others (whether as part of a prior role, coursework, or extracurricular activities). You have experience building either front-end or back-end applications with languages like JavaScript, Python, and Java (non-exhaustive). You also have experience building software in a collaborative setting using software version control systems like git.

• It's an asset if you have experience using with data engineering and data analysis, whether as part of a prior role, coursework, or extracurricular activities. Ability to read and write SQL. Experience with polars, spark, or pandas is an asset.

• You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way.

• You're driven to succeed. You can multi-task with the best of them, constructively push the status quo, and deliver competing project-based and operational demands in a dynamic environment.

• You understand success is in the details. You enjoy collaborating with a high performing team to come up with innovative solutions while being committed to acting with integrity.

• You put our clients first. Creative entrepreneurial or extracurricular activities leveraging technical prowess.

• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive compensation, a banking benefit*, wellbeing support, and additional offers such as employee and family assistance programs and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

*Subject to program terms and conditions

Job Location
Toronto-161 Bay St., 5th

Employment Type
Temporary (Fixed Term)

Weekly Hours
37.5

Skills
Data Analysis, Financial Markets, Java (Programming Language)