Committed to KPMG — Financial Instruments (Valuations) Grad

Eoin Grant

Finance student. Trading-ops engineer.

I'm a final-year BSc Finance student at Queen's University Belfast, just back from a 12-month placement at Susquehanna International Group in Dublin — one of the world's leading quantitative proprietary trading firms.

I combine capital-markets fluency with hands-on Python/SQL — the kind of work that bridges the trader and the engineer. Long-term, my interests lie in front-office and/or markets-facing roles.

01About

Across 12 months at SIG, I rotated through Options Trade Support, ETF Trade Support, and Settlements. I built Python/SQL tooling that estimated potential rebates across 1,000+ listed derivatives on 6 European exchanges, automated market-making analytics, and developed a PyQt GUI adopted into the firm's evening-exercise workflow.

Before SIG, I led equity research as Sector Head for Consumer Discretionary at the Queen's Student Managed Fund, and served as CFO of Queen's Consulting Society — securing £13k in sponsorship and growing membership to 180+. I'm also 1 of 9 selected for QUB's Investment Banking Mentor Scheme, mentored by a BlackRock VP.

02Experience
KPMG

Financial Instruments — Valuations Graduate

Incoming Sep 2026

KPMG · Dublin

Joining the Financial Instruments team within Valuations — pricing and reviewing complex derivatives, structured products, and illiquid securities for audit and advisory clients.

SIG

Trading Operations Intern

Jun 2024 — Jun 2025

Susquehanna International Group · Dublin

Supported daily trading ops across Options, ETF, and Settlements desks, partnering with 20+ market makers. Built a Python/SQL rebate-estimation framework spanning 1,000+ derivatives on 6 European exchanges. Shipped a PyQt early-exercise reconciliation GUI for MEFF, ICE, and CEDX — adopted by the team and reviewed by TechOps.

EHL Experiences

Finance Intern

May 2026 — Present

EHL Experiences · Dublin

Part-time finance role supporting commercial reporting and management information within a fast-growing hospitality group.

Queen's University Belfast

Research Assistant

Jan 2026 — Mar 2026

Queen's University Belfast · Remote

Digitised archival stock-price data from the Stock Exchange Daily Official List using Python and Google Gemini OCR, supporting academic research on preference-share voting rights and returns.

Queen's Student Managed Fund

Sector Head — Consumer Discretionary

Sep 2022 — Jun 2024

Queen's Student Managed Fund · Belfast

Led junior analysts through equity research and stock pitches; represented the fund at sponsor pitch events. Built fluency with the Bloomberg Terminal and fundamental valuation.

Queen's Consulting Society

Chief Financial Officer

Jun 2023 — Jun 2024

Queen's Consulting Society · Belfast

Secured £13k in sponsorship (incl. Grant Thornton), grew membership to 180+, and delivered 4+ flagship events with 100+ attendees — including the society's inaugural consulting case competition.

03Selected Projects

Share Repurchases & Agency Costs — FTSE 350 ↗

QUB FIN3016 · Research

Event study of 84 FTSE 350 buyback announcements (2020–2025), testing Jensen's free-cash-flow hypothesis via market-model CARs and cross-sectional regressions.

TOTO Ltd (5332 JT) — Equity Initiation, BUY ↗

QUB FIN3013 · Equity Research

12-page initiation with a ¥7,303 sum-of-the-parts DCF price target (+27%). Core thesis: the market misprices TOTO as a sanitary-ware maker, overlooking its Advanced Ceramics arm — the sole qualified electrostatic-chuck supplier for Lam Research's 3D-NAND cryogenic etch — which earns ~40% of operating profit at a 40%+ margin. Catalysed by Palliser Capital's activist Value Enhancement Plan; full DCF, relative valuation, and bear/base/bull scenario analysis.

Apple Inc (AAPL) — Debt & Credit Analysis ↗

QUB FIN3020 · Debt Research

Credit study of Apple's ~$83bn senior-unsecured bond stack: maturity-profile and refinancing-risk analysis, USD yield and Z-spread curves benchmarked against the US AAA composite, and peer leverage analysis (Net Debt/EBITDA −0.45x, FCF/Debt 150%) alongside 5Y CDS dynamics through the April 2025 tariff shock.

Index-Tracking ETF Analysis GUI ↗

QUB FIN3028 · Python, PyQt5

Modular desktop application that pulls live yfinance data, computes synthetic NAV, premium/discount, tracking error, and liquidity metrics, then generates a decision-tree trading signal for on-screen creation/redemption opportunities. JSON-driven settings, matplotlib visualisations, and export to Excel / clipboard / text.

Rebate Estimation Engine

SIG · Python, SQL

Modelled LP rebate schemes across 1,000+ derivatives on 6 exchanges, FX-normalised to USD, to direct trader effort toward the highest-value products.

Market-Making Analytics

SIG · Python, Grafana

Daily MM performance reporting suite (MEFF, Eurex, CEDX) with live Grafana monitor and trader-level feedback loops.

Exercise Reconciliation GUI

SIG · PyQt

PyQt application unifying evening options exercises, assignment flagging, and position queries — adopted by the team and reviewed by TechOps.

Historical Equity Data Digitisation

QUB Research · Python, Gemini OCR

Python + Google Gemini OCR pipeline transforming archival SEDOL records into a structured dataset for academic finance research.

04Portfolio & Positioning

How I think about markets — a high-conviction single-name idea alongside a diversified, low-cost ETF core. Position sizing is withheld; this is about process and thesis, not personal balances.

High-conviction idea
Ticker Thesis Return
TOTDY Open TOTO Ltd — a hidden semiconductor play misclassified as a toilet maker. Its Advanced Ceramics arm is the sole qualified electrostatic-chuck supplier for Lam Research's 3D-NAND cryogenic etch, earning ~40% of operating profit at a 40%+ margin. My sum-of-the-parts DCF and Palliser's activist plan point to a re-rating. Read my initiation ↗ +55%
Long-term core — ETF allocation
EMIM 28%
iShares Core MSCI EM IMI
IWDA 28%
iShares Core MSCI World
VWRP 28%
Vanguard FTSE All-World (Acc)
WSML 11%
iShares MSCI World Small Cap
VAGS 5%
Vanguard Global Aggregate Bond

Illustrative and for demonstration only — not investment advice, not a solicitation, and not a complete record of holdings. Figures may be rounded or simplified.

05Toolkit
Programming & Data
Python pandas SQL Oracle MySQL PyQt VBA Splunk Grafana
Markets
Bloomberg Terminal Derivatives ETFs Market Making PnL Reconciliation
Professional
Fundamental Analysis Stock Pitching Excel (Advanced) Leadership
06Education
Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast

2022 — 2026

BSc Finance (with a year in industry)

  • — 81% overall average
  • — Best Student in Finance: Level 1 & Level 2
  • — Foundation Scholarship recipient
  • — IB Mentor Scheme: 1 of 9, mentored by BlackRock VP
St Colman's College

St Colman's College, Newry

2015 — 2022

A-Levels & GCSEs

  • — A-Levels: Biology & Chemistry (A*), Maths & Accounting (A)
  • — Award for Exceptional Academic Performance
  • — GCSE: 5 A*s, 4 As, 1 B (Further Maths A*)
07Contact

Always happy to talk markets, derivatives, exciting opportunities — or to share advice with anyone navigating placements and grad apps.

Email
eoingrant911@gmail.com
LinkedIn
/in/eoin-grant
GitHub
grante-54
Location
Belfast, NI / Dublin, IE