The guide.
What is on the board, how to find the roles that suit you, and how to keep on top of them once you do. Eleven sections, no account needed to read them.
Start here.
Your Finance Job is one board for the ways into finance: internships, graduate programmes, working-student jobs and first roles. It is rebuilt every day, and every role links to the firm's own posting.
What it is for
Finance hires early, in seasons, and each firm does it on its own page. That is the whole problem: the deadlines are spread over a hundred sites and the good ones close quietly. This board puts them in one list, sorted by what is newest, and leaves the applying where it belongs, on the firm's site.
Nothing here is an advert. Roles are ordered by date, never by who pays, and the board carries early-career roles only. If a listing is for a director with fifteen years behind them, it is not for this audience and it is not here.
Three steps, then it runs itself
Tell it what you want. Role type, level, where you can work. Signed in, those become the filters the board opens with, on any device.
Do it in one minute at the four questions, or any time under Account, Role filters.
Work a shortlist, not a feed. Star what you like, set a stage as you move through it, keep notes and deadlines on the role instead of in your head.
Everything you mark lives on your account, so the board and your assistant see the same thing.
Let the new ones come to you. One email at your hour with what is new at the firms you follow, what matches your filters, and what you asked to be reminded of.
Or ask your assistant, which reads the same board. That is the AI page.
What it will not do
It does not apply for you, it does not send your CV anywhere, it never messages anyone in your network, and it does not stand between you and the firm. There is no fee for the roles, and there is no plan to charge for them.
The board right now.
Live from the same data the tracker runs on, so this page changes with it. Every bar is a link: click one and the board opens filtered to it.
Role types
What the board is made of today. A role sits in exactly one type, so these add up to the whole board.
Levels
The route in, not the seniority. Most of the board is students and first jobs.
Countries
Where the open roles are, in the firms' own wording.
Cities
The hubs that carry the most right now.
New postings by day
The last fourteen days. Finance posts in waves: a quiet fortnight is normal, and autumn is when the graduate season lands.
Older days read low because a role leaves the board when the firm takes it down. The last two or three days are the honest ones.
Busiest firms
Most open roles on the board today. It moves week to week.
Find what suits you.
Two ways to do this. Start from where you are in your studies, or build the filter yourself and watch the count move.
Start from where you are
Build it yourself
Pick as many as you like in each row. Nothing picked in a row means everything in that row.
What the levels mean
Reading the role types
Getting more out of the board
Firms we cover.
Firms are added by hand, one at a time, because the point is coverage you can trust rather than a large number. Here is who is on the board today.
The twenty-four with the most open roles. Click one to see everything it has.
Who belongs on the board
Firms that hire early-career people into finance: market makers and proprietary traders, investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds, private equity and venture capital, brokers and exchanges, insurers, the strategy consultancies, and the technology teams inside all of them.
A firm is added when it hires this audience with real openings on a regular basis. Size is not the test. Several of the most interesting names on the board hire four people a year.
What stays off it
How it is kept honest
The board is rebuilt daily and a role drops off when the firm takes it down. Anything that looks wrong gets checked by a person: a dead link, a role in the wrong type, a firm listed twice under two spellings.
Found one? Open the row menu on the board and choose Report, or ask your assistant to report it, or write to [email protected]. Reports are read.
How the board is assembled is our own work and stays that way. What we will say is that every role points back to the firm, nothing is copied from anyone else's listing, and no firm pays for a place on it.
Missing a firm
Name it and it gets looked at, whether you are a student who knows where you want to work or the firm itself. Same address: [email protected].
Track your applications.
Applying to fifteen places over four months is an admin problem before it is a talent problem. The board holds the admin so you do not keep it in a spreadsheet.
The pieces
Your Overview page
Overview is the whole pipeline on one screen: a tile per stage, your lists down the side, then reminders, the firms you follow, the searches you are watching and the events you saved. Add a role that is not on the board by hand, group by stage or by firm, and work down it. Permissions, at the top, holds the switches you change most: whether the assistant reads your CV and profile, the email, and whether Sophron® may contact you.
A way of working that holds up
Star wide on the first pass. Judge nothing, just collect. Ten minutes once a week is enough to stay ahead of a season.
Move a role to Applying the moment you open the firm's form. Half-finished applications are where the losses are.
Put a reminder on every deadline you care about, two days before, not on the day.
Write one line in the note when you hear back. In March you will not remember which of the four rounds at that firm you are in.
Keep Rejected honest. It is the only way the rest of the board tells you anything about where you actually get traction.
All of it needs an account, and an account is free. It is the same Sophron® account as the investment club sites; one email, one password. Creating one here does not make you a member of any club.
CVs and cover letters.
A one-page CV and a letter for each role, in a layout finance firms read quickly, edited right on the page and downloaded as a clean PDF. Both live under Tools.
Your CVs
Cover letters
"New letter" starts a cover letter with the same header as your CV, so the two read as one application. Edit it like the CV, download it as a PDF, or press Copy text to paste it into a firm's application form.
A way of working that holds up
Keep one main CV. For each role, duplicate it and move what matters for that role to the top.
Fill in every part marked in yellow before you download.
Read every draft as your own. It is written from your CV, but you send it, so check each line is true and sounds like you.
Keep a letter under 250 words: why this role and this firm, one or two things you have done that matter for it, and when you can start.
Networking.
Many first roles in finance come through someone you spoke to. Networking, under Tools, keeps track of the people you know and want to meet, the coffee chats you have with them, and when to follow up, so a good conversation does not go cold.
Getting people in
The pipeline
Every person has a stage: To contact, Invited to connect, Connected, Reached out, Scheduled, Chat done, Followed up or Rejected. Switch to Pipeline to see them as columns and drag a person to the next stage, or use List to search, filter and open someone's details and notes.
Never forget a follow-up
Log the chat the same day. A line of notes is enough. Logging it sets a follow-up two days later, or a week, as you choose.
It comes to you. Follow-ups arrive in your morning email, and with Add to my calendar in your own Google, Apple or Outlook calendar too, next to your planned chats.
Needs attention gathers who to follow up with today, messages you have not answered, people who have not replied after a week, and chats coming up.
Who to contact
At firms you track shows the people you know at the firms where you track roles or follow the firm. Or ask your connected assistant who to contact this week and why, and have it draft the message for you to send yourself.
Your messages stay yours
If you upload your LinkedIn messages, they are read on your own device. We keep only dates and counts per person, never the text. We never contact anyone in your network, and you can remove one person or everything at any time.
Alerts and email.
One email, at an hour you pick, carrying everything that is due. Not one message per role, and never a newsletter you did not ask for.
What can be in it
Setting it
Open Account, then Email. Switch the master toggle on; nothing is sent while it is off.
Pick daily or weekly, the hour, and your time zone. If you are not in the Netherlands, set the time zone first or the hour will not mean what you think.
Weekly asks for a weekday too. Monday morning suits most people.
Choose which of the four sources count. Followed firms on, filter matches off, is the quiet setup.
Turning it down
One role that keeps surfacing can be muted on its own. A firm can be hidden, which takes it out of both the board and the email. The master switch stops everything at once, and nothing here is ever more than three emails in a day.
Your assistant can do all of this too, in plain words: "remind me two days before the Flow Traders deadline", "watch Jane Street", "make it weekly on Monday at eight".
Ask your assistant.
Ask for what you want instead of clicking for it. Connect your own assistant once; it signs in as you and sees your own data only.
What follows is the useful half: what to actually say. Click any line to copy it.
Nine briefs it can run for you
Each one pulls the data itself and hands back a finished piece of work: a weekly digest, a firm brief, a city brief, a list brief for one of the ready-made lists, an application plan, a deadline calendar, a comparison of two roles, a prep checklist for one role, and a draft of your application from your own CV. In Claude they sit under the connector, in Claude Code they are slash commands, and anywhere else you ask for them by name.
What it can see
The public board with its lists, city pages and kinds of firm, and your own record: stars, stages, notes, lists, reminders, watches, followed firms, saved lists and cities, saved filters, email settings, your profile from the CV you uploaded, and your network (names, firms, stages, chats and your notes). Nothing about anyone else's account. A star set by your assistant is a star here, and a stage set here is what your assistant reports. One record, two ways in, and you can revoke the connection from your assistant's settings at any time.
Events.
The Events tab carries what the firms host themselves, plus the competitions worth travelling for. Each one is checked on the host's own page before it goes up.
What is listed
How to use it
Go early in the year. Insight days for the autumn are decided in spring, and the deadline is usually months before the day itself.
Save the ones you want. Saved events show up on your Overview and can carry a reminder like any role. Add them to a list next to the roles and people it holds.
Ask your assistant which are still open: "which insight days in the Netherlands are still open to apply?"
Events are hosted by the firms, not by us. Registration happens on their page, the same way applications do.
Questions.
The ones that come in most often.
Where do the roles come from?
From the firms. Every role on the board is a firm's own opening and links straight to the firm's own posting, which is where you apply. The list is rebuilt daily and checked by a person when something looks off. How it is assembled is our own work, and that part we keep to ourselves.
Is it free?
The board, an account, the email, your network, the CV and letter editors, and connecting your own assistant are all free. There is no plan to charge for roles.
Does my LinkedIn data leave my computer?
Your connections do: names, firms, positions, profile links and when you connected are saved to your account so you can track them. Your messages do not. If you upload them, they are read on your own device and we keep only dates and counts per person, never the text. We never contact the people in your network.
Can I download my CV and letters as a PDF?
Yes. Open one under Tools and press Download PDF. It prints the clean one-page document without editing marks. Cover letters also have Copy text, for application forms.
Do I need an account?
To see the full board, yes, and it is free. Without one you see the first roles on each page and every firm's own page. An account is also what makes stars, stages, lists, notes, reminders and email possible, and it carries your filters between your laptop and your phone.
What is a Sophron account?
One login across this site and the investment club sites. Creating an account here gives you the login and nothing else; it does not make you a member of a club, and joining a club is its own step on that club's site.
Does the board cover the whole world?
It covers where the firms hire. Europe is the deepest, the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia are well represented, and a firm's roles appear wherever it posts them. The Countries list under "The board right now" is the honest answer on any given day.
Why is a role I applied to no longer there?
Because the firm took the posting down. If you had set a stage on it, it stays on your board and in your Overview, which is the reason to set a stage early.
A link is dead or a role looks wrong.
Report it from the row menu on the board, or ask your assistant to report it, or write to [email protected]. It gets checked by hand.
Can my firm be added?
Write to [email protected]. Being on the board is free and always will be. Anything beyond a listing, which means getting in front of this audience on purpose, runs through Sophron®.
Will you email my CV to firms?
No. Nothing about you leaves this site for a firm. You apply on their page, in your own name.
Who is behind it?
Sophron®, the parent of the Amsterdam Investment Club, which also runs The Trading Fair, the Quant Competitions and The Sophron® Network podcast. More on the About page.