I am an analyst at Mizuho Americas.
I love living and working in New York.
It's truly the epicenter of culture,
the financial industry and so much more.
I love to cook, and I start my day at a local grocer
near my house.
Then I start to pre-prep some of my meals for dinner.
I find it very relaxing, and it clears my mind
before I get to work.
This is a go, go, go culture, which I love,
and I enjoy the fast pace of my work.
My journey to Mizuho started in 2014.
I am an analyst in securitization.
My job is fairly quantitative.
I like the fact that I'm always learning in this position.
This is a constantly evolving product,
whether it's due to regulations or just shifts in the market.
It's not something that will ever stagnate or
become monotonous.
I work directly with the head of securitization.
We just finished a project together to get a new asset
class in the bank,
and I was the only junior person in there,
and that was amazing, to get that opportunity, to do
the data analysis,
to come up with a way to evaluate the product
to make sure that it's the best that we can offer to the client,
but it's also safe for the bank.
There are many things I love about my job.
I love the fact that as an analyst,
I have a lot of client interaction.
I've gotten to know some of our clients.
It's really amazing to get to know them on a personal level
to understand what their needs are.
As a junior person, that doesn't happen in other banks.
I had other offers from several U.S. investment banks,
and it was the culture of Mizuho,
it was the people that really made me choose to be here,
and I decided to take the internship here
over other bulge brackets.
The people here are not like any other bank.
They really care about you. They care about your growth.
They want you to stay with the bank and to progress
in your career here.
When it came to full-time employment
I had no doubts that this was the right place for me.
This is one of the things that really sets
Mizuho Americas apart
is the fact that we are growing.
We are hiring away some of the best bankers.
We have top-notch talent within the bank, and it's growing.
And now we are competing with these bulge bracket banks
on Wall Street.
Not only that, but we're winning the business.
I love my job, and I love my job because of this bank.
The analyst class are some of my closest friends.
We do get together. We have drinks. We have coffee
We go out for dinner at times.
It's a fantastic work culture to have
that kind of a close relationship with your peers.
I am so glad I chose Mizuho,
and I feel like there are limitless opportunities
ahead of me.