Graduate Programs

We're looking for results-driven graduate students who are passionate about service, passionate about customers and passionate about taking their piece of the financial business to the next level.

Why? Because we're fast-paced and energetic and we place a high priority on employee success and satisfaction. Plus, we give customers what they want most: a friendly smile, fast service, and respect—all backed by knowledge and expertise.

The WaMu culture is centered on our core values: Fair, Caring, Human, Dynamic and Driven. These values are more than just words: they represent the type of employees we attract and retain. At WaMu, our employees and management work hard, but we also understand the value of a strong lifestyle balance. Our culture is very collaborative and, while we take our jobs and customers seriously, we don't take ourselves too seriously.

That difference makes WaMu a great place to work and a great place to bank. It also helps us hold our own as the country's sixth largest financial institution.

If you share these values and seek a dash of fun in your work, look us up for a career in finance, marketing, operations,  consulting, product management or strategy.

Learn more about our Graduate profiles and why some of our MBA interns and alumni decided to join the company in our MBA testimonials.

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WaMu is currently looking for future leaders in our Seattle and San Francisco offices!

Our MBA opportunities are in Strategic Management and Consulting:

General Responsibilities:

• Advise top management on data interpretation for operating or strategic plans, including development of appropriate new information/analyses and financial policy recommendations
• Deliver presentations to senior-level leaders, providing updates on project objectives and scope, risk identification/mitigation, key outcomes, timelines, and resources
• Create goals or project plans with clear responsibilities, milestones, and deliverables
• Use rigorous logic and advanced methods to solve business problems with effective solutions
• Conduct market, customer, competitor, product, channel, operational, and other analyses to support strategic recommendations

• Participating in an accredited MBA program
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to drive for results
• Strong written/verbal communication skills
• Analytical capability
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experience in Financial Services industry and/or 3+ years in product management, analysis, strategy design, and/or consulting roles

Our Master’s opportunities are in Strategic Analysis and Development:

General Responsibilities:

• Perform complex analyses and advise senior leaders on data interpretation and key performance metrics for operating and/or strategic plans, business segments, and/or product lines
• Participate in identifying, evaluating, and quantifying the impact of critical drivers of product performance; provide periodic reviews and recommendations to senior leaders
• Develop and implement robust financial models to demonstrate impact on corporate and/or business unit financial statements
  • Leverage knowledge of analytical (e.g., SAS) and query tools, and provide crisp, insightful explanations of the performance trends identified
• Support the collection and synthesis of information from across the business, including finance, credit, marketing, and operations
• Assist in the development and implementation of scenario analysis for evaluating refined segmentation schemes or sub populations' performance
• Participate in monthly performance forecasting process

Requirements:

• Pursuing a Masters degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics and/or Mathematics from an accredited program
• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Statistics, Operations Research (Management Science & Engineering), or related field
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience in the Financial Services industry and/or 3+ years in analysis, economics, research, and/or consulting roles
• SAS and SQL skills
• Ability to logically formulate hypothesis, supporting conclusions and recommendations with data
• Experience with credit card and/or consumer finance marketing principles and techniques

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See what current MBAs are saying:
"The chance to work in Strategy for a firm as unique as WaMu was hard to pass up. I love financial services, but WaMu is not your typical financial services company. Of course the fundamentals are there, being a successful bank requires as much, but the company's unique brand, incredible growth, customer-centric philosophy and entrepreneurial culture drew me in.

— David L.
2005 MBA Summer Intern
Haas School of Business

"The culture truly differentiates Washington Mutual – its incredible prospects for growth, the brand image and how the company's core values truly impact business decisions.

— Natalie O.
2005 MBA Summer Intern
Yale SOM

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"I get excited about the opportunities to have tremendous visibility with the executives and contribute to the ongoing growth and transformation of the company."

— Greg C.
FVP, Corporate Strategy
University of Chicago

"Every weekend has been an adventure so far whether it's whale watching in the San Juan Islands or hiking in the Olympic National Park or checking out the great neighborhoods of Seattle. The most incredible part of living in Seattle is that I get to enjoy things that I used to do on vacations, but now I get to do it on a whim during the weekends."

— Charles A.
2005 MBA Summer Intern
University of Texas, Austin – McCombs School of Business.

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