Business students receive Risk Management Association Foundation scholarship

Dylan Anders and Steven Jeffries, business students from Williamson College of Business Administration at Youngstown State University have received the Risk Management Association Foundation scholarship, in the amount of $2,000, for the 2018 academic year. The RMA Foundation scholarship program awards renewable scholarships to current undergraduates in recognition of students’ academic achievement and commitment to the financial services industry.

Anders of Cortland is a junior majoring in finance and marketing. He recently completed an internship with Cortland Bank in the Risk Management and Security Department where he focused on identifying and managing risk at each branch along with cash counts of the depositories. In addition to the branch audits, Anders helped complete an audit of the collateral documentation used to secure a variety of commercial and personal loans and assisted with writing policy and procedures that impacted all fourteen depository branches.

Vice president for financial affairs for the Student Government Association at YSU, Anders also serves on the academic grievance sub-committee as a representative of the student conduct board for the Williamson College of Business Administration. He is also a member of the WCBA Business Leaders, Beta Gamma Sigma, the Board of Directors for the Vienna Historical Society and social committee member for the Fowler Volunteer Fire Department.

Jeffries, from New Castle, Pa., is a senior majoring in finance and accounting. He completed internships with four financial institutions broadening his professional portfolio. Jeffries gained experience at Treloar & Heisel, working with wealth management professionals to assist with strategic recommendations to over 19,000 clients across the country; at JP Morgan Chase in New York, partaking in several integrated audits involving companies across the globe safeguarding over $2 trillion in assets; at Progressive Insurance, working alongside the financial reporting team to create end of year financial statements that were later reported to the SEC; and at Dominion East Ohio, where he worked with a data analyst collecting weekly operational data that would be presented to upper management.

A member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Jeffries competed at the BGS Global Leadership Summit in Orlando, Fla. this past September. He played on the offensive line for the YSU football team from 2014-2016 before stepping down to pursue internship opportunities.

Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association is a national not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk management principles in the financial services industry. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has 2,500 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by 18,000 individuals located throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific.