QFBA students secure internship positions

Qatar Finance and Business Academy’s (QFBA) Kawader participants have all secured internship positions in a range of financial services institutions in Doha, Dubai and London, as part of the prominent programme’s experiential learning module.
In its fourth consecutive year, Kawader’s 2016 academic term is witnessing the participation of 21 outstanding students who are honing their skills and talents towards supporting the financial and business sector in Qatar. Partner organisations who have kindly hosted the Kawader interns include KPMG Qatar, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Stock Exchange, QNB Capital, QFCRA, Qatar Central Bank, The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Hilton, HSBC and QFC.
Having acquired the latest knowledge in the field of finance and business, the students will now complete work experience in a variety of organizational functions including Audit, Finance, Product and Market Development, Investment Banking, Policy, HR, Compliance, Strategic Finance, Risk Management and Credit Analysis.
The interns, who come from different academic and professional backgrounds, will each have a custom-made training program specially designed for them by the host organization in collaboration with the Kawader Project Manager from QFBA and the student themselves, in order to optimize and maximize the learning opportunity to be gained from the experience.
Commenting on the potential impact that the experiential learning module has on Kawader students, Dr. Abdulaziz Al Horr, CEO of QFBA, said:
“The internship experience plays a critical role in consolidating everything the students have learnt in the classroom and enables them to apply their learning to a real-world professional working context. They will be placed in the various departments of top local and global organizations throughout the financial services sector, given real work to complete, and will be evaluated on their performance, work ethic and professional conduct throughout their internships. This will provide them with invaluable work experience, exposure to new, best-in-class work environments, networking opportunities in the sector and, for some candidates, the possibility of an offer of permanent employment upon successful completion of the internship.”
Kawader is a 4-month vocational training program developed by QFBA and the Qatar Financial Center (QFC) Authority and funded by a number of Qatari banks, with the aim of preparing high-caliber recent Qatari graduates and young professionals for a career in financial services.