[Hiring] Investment Banking | AI x Finance Residency @Aptura

Role Description

We're expanding our India cohort and looking for sharp investment banking associates in Bangalore. As an AI Resident, you'll apply your bulge-bracket training to a problem set that didn't exist a few years ago: teaching frontier AI to reason like a banker across valuation, modelling, and deal analysis.

Qualifications

• 3–4+ years of IB or Corporate Finance experience at a top international bank (bulge bracket, elite boutique, or top-tier global advisory).
• Strong financial modelling and valuation skills in Excel.
• Thorough understanding of financial statements, valuation, and financial modelling.
• Skilled at extracting and interpreting data from filings, earnings materials, and investor presentations.
• High attention to detail, with excellent summarisation and written communication skills.
• Able to produce structured analytical outputs with clear explanations of methodology.

Requirements

• Design and build financial analysis scenarios tailored to your area of expertise.
• Create annotated financial models that demonstrate analytical logic.
• Structure data extraction and analysis tasks from public company materials.
• Evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy and professional quality.
• Minimum 30+ hours per week.
• Remote, asynchronous contract.
• Contribute to a research initiative with a leading foundational AI lab; help enhance AI capabilities in corporate finance modelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and review challenging finance scenarios and prompts to advance AI reasoning.
• Build, adapt, and annotate financial models to highlight key logic and decision-making.
• Review and validate assigned tasks with a high level of accuracy.
• Maintain well-organised documentation and uphold internal standards.

Benefits

• Contribute to the direction of AI in finance.
• Gain firsthand exposure to how AI models are trained and developed.
• Build specialised expertise at the intersection of finance and AI.
• Competitive pay.

Residency Structure

• Commitment: Minimum 30+ hours/week, flexible scheduling.
• Location: Bangalore-based, fully remote and asynchronous.
• Compensation: Competitive hourly rate, commensurate with experience.
• Start date: Immediate / Rolling.
• Referral bonus for any successful referral hired into this role.