Bank Week 2023
January 31 - February 3
Partnership between the Carroll School Undergraduate Career Team & The Boston College Career Center
Looking for more information about Careers in Finance?
Bank Week is a week-long series of programs designed, first and foremost, to help educate sophomores about the different opportunities available in the finance industry. The assumption for most of the programs is that you have no idea about any of this — nor should you. The goal is to give you the information so you can decide if these opportunities are of interest ahead of this year's spring and summer recruiting for Summer of 2024 internships. All students and all majors are welcome! If you are a student who never considered a career in finance, and wouldn't know where to begin...this week is for you.
Click the events below for additional details.
Networking Career Fair
The Heights Room
Similar to the regular career fair, this is your opportunity to meet the banks that will be actively recruiting BC students. We recommend business casual.
Diversity Networking Reception
Heights Room
Employers attending are eager to increase diversity in the industry. This is a chance to learn about the different opportunities and to make some solid connections that you will need if you decide to pursue opportunities at any level in the banking industry. You may have to get up a bit earlier and dress up but trust us it's a time to have some meaningful engagement with these folks before the event gets crowded.
This event is open to women, students of color, students with disabilities, first-generation college students, LGBTQ students, and military-affiliated students.
Resume Help / Critiques
Fulton Honors Library
CSOM Majors -- get your resume reviewed by a CSOM senior Peer Advisor! They'll make sure you're ready to go for Friday's networking events and any applications you're submitting.
CSOM minors and non-CSOM majors -- get your resume reviewed by a Career Center peer career coach during our drop-in hours. Drop-ins are held Monday - Friday from 12-4pm at the Career Center (Southwell Hall). NO appointment is required!
Tuesday 7:00-8:00PM (RSVP on Handshake)
Fulton 511
The Investment Banking Association presents resume writing for banking. All are welcome!
Banking 101: What is a bank? How is it structured?
Tuesday @ 6:00PM (RSVP on Handshake)
Fulton 511
Featuring: Omer Tanvir/VP Goldman Sachs (CSOM '05)
Investment banking: It is something you hear about a lot at BC, but do you even understand what it is? More people than not feel that way. BC grad Omer Tanvir at Goldman Sachs will break it down for you using his "lemonade stand" analogy and you will have a much better understanding afterward. If you attend nothing else, make sure to join this program. It is fun and enlightening.
Women in Banking
Wednesday @ 6PM (RSVP on Handshake)
Virtual
Finance has a reputation as being a male-dominated, bro culture environment. With so much emphasis from the firms on gender diversity has it made a difference? Given that women are still in the minority how does that impact the culture? Learn from our panelists about the realities, the lifestyle, the opportunities, and barriers to being a woman in Finance.
Featuring alumni panelists from SVB Leerink, Moelis, RBC, and Deutsche Bank.
Behavioral Interviewing
Virtual/CSOM Career Team
The CSOM Career team will give you tips and resources on how to prepare for behavioral, non-technical interviews.
Investment Banking
Fulton 511
This panel pick up where "What is a bank?" leaves off and allows for a deeper dive specifically into IB. The panel will give a high-level overview and then allow for any questions. The assumption is that you don’t know anything about IB. Remember there is no such thing as a bad question; these are BC alumni who want to be honest with you.
BIPOC on Wall Street
Virtual
One only has to look around to see that BIPOC professionals are underrepresented on Wall St. Our panelists today will talk about the realities, the unique challenges and opportunities that arise, and strategies for success and engagement.
Panelists from Scotiabank & JPMorgan Chase
Featuring:
Drew Barksdale, CSOM Career Advisor
Watch Drew Barksdale and Jabril Robinson for advice on how to make the most of Friday's Diversity Networking reception.
Sales & Trading
Virtual
Our panelists will break it down for you, talk about their experiences thus far, and cover the following talking points:
What made you choose S&T over IBD or other options in financial services?
What are the different roles in S&T: trading vs sales trading vs sales
What's the future of the S&T business? A lot of cash equity jobs have disappeared over time with the rise of electronic and algorithmic trading – what does the future look like?
What things can you do after working in Sales & Trading? The skillset is a more specific one than investment banking
What are the hours like?
Discovering your Best Self: Build your Networking Toolkit
McGuinn 121
Join us to learn strategies to prepare for upcoming networking events and career fairs. Learn best practices for networking, researching organizations, making your Handshake profile employer-ready, crafting your elevator pitch, and interacting with employers.
Sponsored by Training the Street: TTS offers state-of-the-art, instructor-led courses in accounting, capital markets, financial modeling and valuation for finance professionals. With more than a century of combined professional and teaching experience, TTS's instructors have worked across a broad spectrum of industries -- from high-technology to retail -- and across a wide range of disciplines. Through our extensive exposure to deal flow on several continents and across various firms, we have built a conceptual reservoir of global transactions, client experiences, situational dilemmas, and anecdotal cases that enrich the examples we select and the way we teach.
Registration link will be posted here.
This program will be offered free to BC students ; you will be charged a $100 registration fee which won't be processed unless you are a no -show. For the program you register for.
Workshop Content – Synchronous
Day 1: Valuation - Friday, February 10 (RSVP on Handshake)
2:00-6:00 PM
The main goal of the seminar is to provide technical interview prep for candidates seeking employment in finance related fields. The corporate valuation seminar will explore the fundamentals of valuation techniques used by finance practitioners. Specifically, the content will cover:
∙ Overview of financial statements: Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement
∙ Key valuation concepts: Equity and Enterprise Value, EBIT and EBITDA,
∙ Common uses of valuation
∙ Public comparables analysis
∙ Acquisition comparables analysis
∙ Discounted cash flow analysis
∙ Imputing multiples and valuation ranges
∙ Sources of public information
Day 2: Financial Modeling - Saturday, February 11 (RSVP on Handshake)
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
This intensive workshop, an abbreviated version of the program for Training The Street’s corporate clients, is designed to develop financial modeling skills through actual hands-on construction of an abridged financial model. The completed product is a model with 5 years of projections and 3 years of historical data, containing the following detailed analyses:
∙ Key operating profit line items
∙ Key cash flow items statement (working capital, capital expenditures, depreciation, etc.)
∙ Discounted cash flow analysis
Panelists from top firms, including...
