London, UK
2026 Quantitative Finance Off-Cycle Internship (London)
Internship
Financial Services
Finance
October 23, 2025
In the Quantitative Finance division, we provide critical quantitative strategies and solutions for businesses across the Firm to optimize trading tools and processes.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
The Morgan Stanley Quantitative Finance Off-Cycle Internship Programme in London runs for 6 or 9 months with the possibility to rotate across teams. Aimed at students who are required to complete a long-term internship as part of their studies or have already graduated. The programme is designed to help you explore opportunities within finance by working with quantitative specialists to evolve into an integral member of the team. Quantitative Finance interns are placed in one or more front office strategists (‘Strats’) teams that are typically aligned to a sales or trading business to work on projects or models. You can expect to take on significant responsibility as soon as you start. You will work directly with sales and trading desks at a senior level and build partnerships with, and learn from, other firm functions such as technologist and risk managers. You will be expected to apply your skills and subject-matter expertise to help them make strategic decisions, develop quantitative edge and new technologies, drive efficiencies and effect changes.
Training includes on-the-job training and one-on-one sessions to familiarize yourself with the Firm's data resources, models, analytical tools, and AIML capability. The curriculum covers market and product knowledge as well as technical training. Throughout the program, you will be continually exposed to Sales, Trading and Management, and you will benefit from networking opportunities with peers and colleagues. You will also be assigned a mentor to ease your transition into the corporate environment by offering career guidance, serving as a sounding board, and helping connect you to the broader Morgan Stanley network. Your co-workers are a diverse group who are motivated experienced industry leaders as well as graduates from top Universities that enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment.
Strategists typically work very closely with desks across business lines, are commercially driven and revenue focussed.
The below four profiles describe the different categories of roles available within Strats. In many cases an individual role will encompass aspects of each.