University of Cambridge

University of Warwick

Colegiul National Sfantul Sava Bucuresti

Incoming Global Markets Graduate Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank

MidEuropa

Investor Relations Associate

• Covered more than 30 accounts from the Hedge Fund community across a wide range of credit products (IG, HY, and EM bonds, CDS, loans, indices, and options);
• Temporarily backed the Real Money HY team by covering several accounts on their side and helped generate revenue across both teams at once;
• Improved communication with our client base by writing daily market commentary, collaborating with research and trading to deliver market analysis and revenue-generative trade ideas;
• Strengthened the relationship with our top clients by organising corporate events such as Thanksgiving Dinner or Summer drinks, and taking ownership of planning and coordination;
• Improved the operational processes across the team by taking ownership of bonds/loans settlement checks, trade bookings, new issue allocations, client onboarding, e-trading enablement, and other operational tasks.

Barclays Investment Bank

Credit Sales Analyst

• Delivered two trade ideas on credit cash and credit default swaps, a credit deep dive and a client presentation as part of my rotation in Credit Trading;
• Helped with implementing an ESG scoring system for our credit products together with the ESG research team used to pitch trade ideas to clients;
• Developed three trade ideas on EM Rates products as part of my second rotation in EM Rates Trading.

Global Markets Summer Analyst

• Facilitated day-to-day activities of the teams by summarising research for clients, optimising excel files, whilst gaining valuable knowledge in Options Trading, Multi-Assets Fixed Income Sales, and Prime Brokerage;
• Composed a total of 40 daily emails for the Macro Sales team on main themes for the day, main market movers and a trade idea in FX or Rates;
• Delivered 4 weekly stock pitches on specific themes, by analysing company and industry reports and collaborating with equity research analysts.

Morgan Stanley

Sales and Trading Summer Analyst

• Developed an understanding of SME clients and their financing needs as part of the SME Sales team by producing presentations on credit products and market trends;
• Created a new client-mapping database to facilitate access to information about clients for the team;
• Delivered 7 weekly market updates by conducting research on recent market trends.

Lloyds Banking Group

Commercial Banking Intern

• Analysed financial statements (balance sheets, P&L) of more than 50 businesses in Corporate Finance to compile and produce the reports to be delivered in presentations to client meetings;
• Facilitated the work of the team in Financial Markets by examining and writing reports on financial products sold to the top 5% of clients;
• Shadowed different areas of Sales and Trading (FX spot transactions, swaps, interest rate swaps, fixed income products) to gain a broader knowledge of financial markets.

BRD - Groupe Societe Generale

Financial Markets Intern

• Gained insight into different Investment Banking divisions, in addition to work shadowing in Sales and Trading;
• Took part in a Debate regarding macroeconomic issues as a consequence of the Brexit vote;
• Delivered a Case Study presentation on the optimal asset decision for an investor according to different market stages.

Investment Banking Spring Intern

• Worked alongside an internal team of accountants responsible with evaluating that transactions were done according to the bank’s internal policy;
• Used strong analytical skills when helping the accountants make reports on the bank’s investments.

Nicolae-Andrei Voicu