2029 Fintech Academy - Greenwood Project Scholar Program

2029 Fintech Academy - Greenwood Project Scholar Program Department: Talent Acquisition - College Program Employment Type: Programme Location: Chicago,IL

Description About The Greenwood Project

At Greenwood Project, we open doors in financial services for undergraduate freshmen. We give our scholars three things: social capital, the network that comes from knowing people inside the industry. Academic and technical capital, the training the work actually requires. And aspirational capital, the belief that the seat belongs to you.

This is not a workshop series. Scholars commit to twelve months of training, deliver real work on real deadlines, and finish knowing whether this industry is for them. Many go on to internships and full time offers at our partner firms. All of them leave with a network they did not have before.

The Fintech Academy

This academy trains the analytical and operational foundation underneath financial services: how markets are structured, how money actually moves through systems, where it breaks, and what the rules require. Financial services now hires analysts, operators, and risk professionals in the same numbers it hires traditional finance roles, and those jobs are open to people who did not start out in finance.

Where this training leads

These are the roles this academy prepares you for, and they hire sophomores and juniors in real numbers. Each one maps directly to what you will study.

• Fintech product and operations analysis. Working alongside product and operations teams to find what is broken, decide what matters most, and make the case for fixing it. This is the role our capstone puts you in.
• Trading operations. Everything that has to happen after a trade is agreed. Confirming it, clearing and settling it, making sure the right money and securities land in the right accounts, and finding the break when they do not. Trading desks cannot function without this, and it is one of the largest entry points into a firm.
• Operations