Eoin Grant

01About

Alongside the finance, I work comfortably in Python and SQL, and reach for them wherever they make analysis faster or more reliable. Across 12 months at SIG, rotating through Options Trade Support, ETF Trade Support, and Settlements, that meant building a framework to estimate rebates across 1,000+ listed derivatives on 6 European exchanges, automating market-making analytics, and developing a PyQt reconciliation tool the team adopted into its daily workflow. As a research assistant at QUB, I used Python and Google Gemini OCR to digitise archival stock-price data for a study on preference-share voting rights and returns.

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 — securing £5.5k 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

Financial Instruments — Valuations Graduate

Sep 2026 — Present

KPMG · Dublin

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

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.

Finance Intern

May 2026 — Sep 2026

EHL Experiences · Dublin

Managed cash reconciliation and float controls across multiple venues, produced sales forecast vs. actual and covers analysis, and tightened internal controls through redesigned reporting worksheets.

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.

Sector Head — Consumer Discretionary

Oct 2023 — Jun 2024

Queen's Student Managed Fund · Belfast

Supervised analysts producing equity research reports and represented the fund at sponsor stock-pitch events. Built fluency with the Bloomberg Terminal and fundamental valuation.

Junior Analyst — Real Estate

Sep 2022 — Oct 2023

Chief Financial Officer

Jun 2023 — Jun 2024

Queen's Consulting · Belfast

Secured £5.5k 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.

04Toolkit

Programming & Data

Python pandas SQL PyQt VBA Splunk Grafana

AI

Anthropic Family Gemini OCR

Markets

Bloomberg Terminal Derivatives ETFs Market Making PnL Reconciliation

Professional

Fundamental Analysis Stock Pitching Excel (Advanced) Leadership

05Education

Queen's University Belfast

2022 — 2026

BSc Finance, First Class Honours (with a year in industry)

— Final mark of 80%
— 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, 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*)

06Contact

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

Email

eoingrant911@gmail.com

/in/eoingrant54

GitHub

grante-54

Location

Belfast, NI / Dublin, IE