Position Summary:

The fundamentalobjectivesof Franklin TempletonsInvestment Risk Management (IRM)group include:

• Providing independent perspective & challenge

• Promoting a culture of transparency

• Identifying & assessing key risks and providing insights

• Offering risk expertise & knowledge for decisions

• Stewarding risk data & statistics

• Protecting the clients alpha

The major types of investment risk that IRM monitors include liquidity risk concentration risk market riskcreditriskand other risks. As a department we continuously aim to enhance our overall risk program pursue increased access to data/information and improve our risk discussions/analysis.

This person will have an opportunity to deliver on key organizational goals including:

• Improve infrastructure through collaborating with firm initiatives retiring antiquated systems rationalizing database structure andleveragingestablished systems

• Expand data accessibility and ensure data quality

• Leverage artificial intelligence and other technology toidentifytrends and patterns

• The ways in which this person will add value to the firm include:

• Providing quantitative portfolio analysis

• Ensuringaccurateportfolio analytics for key portfolio risks

• Maintaining risk information for trend and pattern insights

• Delivering tools for IRM research including visualizations and portals

• Strengthening transparency and understanding

• Detect and help avoid unintended investment risks

• Determineinvestment risk impacts of new portfolio ideas

• Delivering governance expected by boards and clients

• Maintain a common investment risk framework

• Provide independent perspective and challenge governance

• Monitor regulatory investment limits

• Building collective intelligence

• Create insights from having larger views spanning investment teams specialized investmentmanagersand client portfolios

• Identifyand track emergent macro and geopolitical risks

• Several of the opportunities this person will have toimpactthe success of the organization include:

• Enhance business intelligence through new analytics

• Improve governance surrounding data quality

• Enhance organizational awareness by conducting investment risk oversight

Team Culture:

Franklin Templetons Investment Risk Management (IRM)department is comprised of 30 risk analysts 35 risk managers and 10 members of risk support from across the globe who work towards the common goal of providing independent investment risk management to a broad diverse constituent base (executive management investors/clients investment managers and risk governance & oversight).

Aninterninthis departmentcan expect to learn:

• Quantitative finance and asset managementknowledge

• Technical experiencehandlinglarge volumes of data

• Fundamentals of data modeling

• Team collaboration

Key Responsibilities Can Include:

1. Industry Research

• Assistwith the identification of risk trends and patterns across investment strategies

• Identifyrisk drivers across investment strategies

2. Data Visualization

• Build analytical tools to efficiently derive risk insights

• Implement metrics to better assessmarketbehavior

• Automaterisk modelreconciliation process to ensure data completeness and accuracy (SQL Power BI)

3. Digital Transformation

Ideal Qualifications:

• Background inquantitative financeor related fields

• Experience withusingdata visualization tools(Power Bi Tableau SQL)

• Ability to perform dataanalysisand industry research

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Please be sure to attach your resume whensubmittingyour application. Applicationssubmittedwithout a resume will not be considered.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to each applicant individually. Ifyoureinterested in more than one internship we encourage you to apply to all positions that align with your interests.

This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately40(dependentonstate/location)hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $26(dependent on location andfunction)USD per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location job-related knowledge skills and experience.At Franklin Templeton we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation.