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Microsoft Excel: The Engine of Financial Models (And AI Impact)

Microsoft Excel: The Engine of Financial Models (And AI Impact)

Excel serves as the primary platform for virtually all investment banking financial modeling, functioning as both the technical foundation and the analytical workspace where billion-dollar decisions are built, tested, and refined. Despite the availability of more sophisticated software platforms, Excel's combination of flexibility, transparency, and universal accessibility has made it the undisputed standard in the investment banking industry.

Canary Wharfian•10 months ago

How to Survive & Thrive in Investment Banking

How to Survive & Thrive in Investment Banking

Dazx•a year ago

Top 25 Continental European Target Universities

Top 25 Continental European Target Universities

Canary Wharfian•4 months ago

Target/Non-Target Universities - The Ultimate Guide

Target/Non-Target Universities - The Ultimate Guide

Attending a target versus a non-target university makes a huge difference when it comes to landing your first role. These categories are based on the relative attractiveness of universities reputation and more concretely, recruitment activity and networking opportunities available on campus.

Canary Wharfian•a year ago

How to Pass HireVue & Pymetrics Games

How to Pass HireVue & Pymetrics Games

Canary Wharfian•3 months ago

I Want to Work for "Bank of Morgan Sachs Capital"

I Want to Work for "Bank of Morgan Sachs Capital"

CTRL ES•12 years ago

What Are So-Called Exit Opportunities?

What Are So-Called Exit Opportunities?

One of the main attractive features of investment banking is the breadth of opportunities it opens beyond the industry itself. After a few years, many bankers try and some make the jump to private equity, or other related industries that offer a better work-life balance and better pay.

Canary Wharfian•5 months ago

Sell-Side or Buy-Side: the Two Halves of High-Finance

Sell-Side or Buy-Side: the Two Halves of High-Finance

Canary Wharfian•a year ago

General Career Advice

Microsoft Excel: The Engine of Financial Models (And AI Impact)

Canary Wharfian•10 months ago

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Excel serves as the primary platform for virtually all investment banking financial modeling, functioning as both the technical foundation and the analytical workspace where billion-dollar decisions are built, tested, and refined. Despite the availability of more sophisticated software platforms, Excel's combination of flexibility, transparency, and universal accessibility has made it the undisputed standard in the investment banking industry.

How to Survive & Thrive in Investment Banking

Dazx•a year ago

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Breaking into top finance roles means embarking on one of the most intense and potentially rewarding career paths. Long hours, steep learning curves, and high-stakes deliverables will test even the most driven junior analyst or associate. But with the right playbook, you can not only survive but also build lasting momentum.

Top 25 Continental European Target Universities

Canary Wharfian•4 months ago

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Attending a target university, especially in a job market as tough as today's, has become crucial. The saying "it's not what you know, but who you know" is much more relevant today than it was for the last 10 years. Without access to a wide alumni network who can help pave your way and share valuable advice as well as on-campus events ran by firms, breaking into high-finance is extremely difficult.

Target/Non-Target Universities - The Ultimate Guide

Canary Wharfian•a year ago

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Attending a target versus a non-target university makes a huge difference when it comes to landing your first role. These categories are based on the relative attractiveness of universities reputation and more concretely, recruitment activity and networking opportunities available on campus.

How to Pass HireVue & Pymetrics Games

Canary Wharfian•3 months ago

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HireVue and PyMetrics (often called Pymetrics) represent a major evolution in modern recruitment. In 2022, HireVue acquired Pymetrics and integrated its popular game-based assessments into their AI-powered hiring platform. Today, candidates frequently encounter "HireVue Games" or Pymetrics-style assessments when applying to major companies in finance, consulting, tech, and other industries.

I Want to Work for "Bank of Morgan Sachs Capital"

CTRL ES•12 years ago

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I started writing a reply to this post, and thought it would be better to make a longer post on it. This isn't a definitive answer to bank X vs bank Y, but it's a start.

What Are So-Called Exit Opportunities?

Canary Wharfian•5 months ago

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One of the main attractive features of investment banking is the breadth of opportunities it opens beyond the industry itself. After a few years, many bankers try and some make the jump to private equity, or other related industries that offer a better work-life balance and better pay.

Sell-Side or Buy-Side: the Two Halves of High-Finance

Canary Wharfian•a year ago

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The financial services industry is split into two types of companies: the sell-side and the buy-side. While both are essential to capital markets and deal-making, they operate very differently. Let’s break it down from the perspective of both trading/markets and investment banking/deal-making.