Personal Statement: Business Administration Field

As a child, I was enthralled by numbers. My fascination grew with my age and I started getting more intrigued with the data rationality??behavioural patterns and data analysis. I always had the attitude to indulge myself within various critical reasoning tasks, be it solving numerical puzzles or figuring out capital market movements. My knack for statistics and aptitude to analyse large data sets, was the stimulus for me to take up certain courses during my Under Graduation. I chose algorithms, advanced calculus, computer programming languages, and more dynamic computing software, like MATLAB to enhance my quantitative skills further.

Thereon, my preoccupation to understand the functioning of a business and my inquisitive nature, led me to take a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), where I realized about my enthusiasm towards finance. During my masters, I enrolled for the course of Financial Engineering, which particularly thrilled me. Through these classes, for the first time, I had the opportunity to delve into details of the structuring and pricing of various complex financial products available in the market. Because of the subject combining financial theory with the schemes of engineering and implementing those using mathematical tools and programming methods, I could associate with the area. I can easily correlate my passion in finance and my cognitive ability to my command in mathematics.

After graduating from school, I took a position of financial managerin a large trading corporation. At work, sheer challenge aspect of intricate tasks, such as, rigorous projects with tight schedule, developing models to assess the feasibility of the project or task with complex data analysis, motivates me to take on the project....

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...explore the field of financial engineering. I can easily correlate my passion in finance and my cognitive ability to my command in mathematics. At this point in my career, I feel that I can contribute significantly more to the rigorous market, if I develop in-depth knowledge of market operations, considering, increasing regulatory concernsrestrictions and mounting emphasis on market risk and credit. I can easily correlate my passion in finance and my cognitive ability to my command in mathematics. More so, I believe I have attainedacquired an apt combinatory skill set to take a course in this burgeoning field of Financial Engineering which would help me hone my quantitative analysis skills and perfect me for a demanding career in Banking, Securities, corporate treasury orand Financial Markets by providing real-time, practical business problem solving experience.