Graduates

Your maths, or maths-based degree, is a valuable asset to your future career and there is a wide variety to choose from. The financial sector, the actuarial profession, ICT, teaching and academia are some of the most popular choices, but there are many other careers that you may not have considered

Statisticians

Engage in the development of mathematical theory or apply statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields, such as bio-statistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, economic statistics, or other fields

Risk Managers

As a risk manager, you use mathematics and statistical skills to appraise, price and track risks inherent in a financial institution's transactions. Your knowledge of capital markets products helps you work with traders, portfolio managers and clients, and allows you to provide risk-hedging strategies. You focus on two types of risk: market and credit.  Market risk originates from fluctuations in securities prices.  Methods such as VaR (Value at Risk) and Monte Carlo Simulation track such a risk.  Credit risk arises from      counter-party--or business partner--defaults, and is measured by internal models

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Traders

Traders buy, hold or sell securities on financial markets, and make profits from price variations. As a trader, you may use a financial institution's own funds to select securities or you may trade on behalf of clients. Trading with corporate funds is called proprietary trading. Gains made or losses incurred in such transactions are recorded in a firm's profit and loss statement. Traders' assistants help you become profitable by applying math tools to price securities and providing you with real-time investment advice

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Traders Assistants

As a trader's assistant, you use statistical expertise to build computer programs and algorithms to value and track financial instruments in which portfolio managers, proprietary traders and clients are interested. You provide real-time advice, and you may work with risk managers to evaluate risk-hedging strategies. For example, you could signal an undervalued Swedish corporate bond to the European bonds trading desk and recommend a "buy" because you believe such a bond will increase in value in the next six months

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Researchers

With a graduate degree in financial mathematics, you could engage in teaching and conduct research at universities or other institutions of advanced learning--such as think tanks, research institutes or expert panels. You could specialize in a variety of fields, including econometrics, international taxation, quantitative finance, statistics or applied mathematics. Financial institutions, regulators and government bodies will seek your expertise on various topics. For instance, if you focus on international taxation, a U.S. Senate commission on tax and banking could ask you to aid in drafting new legislation.

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Consultants

As a consultant, you advise a variety of clients on investment decisions and risk-hedging strategies. These clients could include high-net-worth individuals, university endowments or philanthropic institutions. Hedging a risk means reducing or eliminating it. You use quantitative skills to review clients' financial data, you review short- and long-term investment goals, and you appraise risk tolerance. Risk tolerance indicates how much loss an investor can incur before selling positions. You may work for an advisory firm or practice independently

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Maths Teaching Career

To teach as a member of a teaching team in a developing capacity within an established programme of study, with the assistance of a mentor if required.

• To teach in a developing capacity in a variety of settings from small group tutorials to large lectures.

• To transfer knowledge including practical skills, methods and techniques.

• To use a range of delivery techniques to inspire and engage students.

• To identify learning needs of students and define appropriate learning objectives.

• To ensure that content, methods of delivery and learning materials will meet the defined learning objectives.

• To develop own teaching materials, methods and approaches with guidance

• To develop the skills of applying appropriate approaches to teaching.

• To challenge thinking, foster debate and develop the ability of students to engage in critical discourse and rational thinking.

• To supervise the work of students, including field trips where appropriate, provide advice on study skills, and help them with learning problems.

• To recognise areas where current provision may be in need of revision or improvement.

• To set, mark, and assess work and examinations and provide constructive feedback to students.

• To seek ways of improving performance by reflecting on teaching design and delivery, and obtaining and analysing feedback from students, the line manager, and peers.

• To ensure that the teaching content and methods of delivery are in accordance with equal opportunities, and respond to issues relating to student needs.