Evropska centralna banka
General Information
Type of contract: Traineeship
Who can apply? EU nationals eligible for our traineeship programme Grant The trainee grant is €1,070 per month plus an accommodation allowance (see further information section)
Working time: Full time (Traineeships of between six and 12 months in total, with starting dates as of July 2023)
Place of work: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Your team
You will be part of one of the five divisions of the Directorate General Market Operations.
Our Directorate has around 180 staff responsible for preparing and executing the monetary policy and foreign exchange operations of the Eurosystem. We manage the ECB’s foreign reserves and own funds, and we develop and maintain the framework for its financial market activities. We also coordinate the implementation of the Eurosystem’s asset purchase programme and the reserve management services that the Eurosystem provides to non euro area central banks, monetary authorities, public financial institutions and international institutions. In addition, we monitor and analyse financial market developments that are relevant for market operations. As well as maintaining regular contact with financial market participants, the Directorate works closely with other ECB business areas, the national central banks (NCBs) of the EU Member States and the non-EU Group of Ten central banks.
The traineeships are aimed primarily at graduates with an interest in financial markets and/or monetary policy implementation. Our data teams offer great learning opportunities for applicants with a strong quantitative background, while our back office teams provide the perfect environment for candidates with a strong understanding of operations to thrive.
The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.
Your role
You will join either a data team or a back office team. In both cases, you will contribute to the operational tasks of your division, working closely with experts on a wide spectrum of operational and monetary policy activities. You will have a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience delivering insights, findings, reports, presentations and further analytical outputs to colleagues in your division, the Directorate’s senior management and the Eurosystem task forces and working groups.
You will build on your skills, gaining more experience in business processes and/or analytics workflows. You will participate in innovation, digitalisation and automation initiatives, contributing to the implementation of new processes and technologies in the Directorate.
As part of our teams, but especially as part of our data teams, you will also showcase and expand your data analysis skills as you: collect and process data (from structured data to market intelligence, and from ad hoc requests to daily automated scenarios); investigate and integrate data from different sources (from microdata to big data, and from MS Excel files to Oracle databases and big data platforms); visualise and communicate findings using interactive tools such as Tableau (from setting up dashboards for experts in the division to developing tools for the Eurosystem); assist professional teams in developing IT applications (from an end-user or business analyst perspective).
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:
- a bachelor’s degree or higher in finance, economics, econometrics, mathematics, statistics, accounting, computer science or a related discipline;
- an awareness of financial market structures, financial market developments or market operations;
- experience using one or more of the following: SQL, VBA, R, Python, Java, MATLAB, Stata, Tableau, MS Power BI, Bloomberg, KNIME or Refinitiv Eikon;
- experience working with complex data (i.e. data preparation, analysis and visualisation);
- a good knowledge of the MS Office package, including an advanced knowledge of MS Excel;
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Desired:
- a master’s degree in finance, economics, econometrics, mathematics, statistics, accounting, computer science or a related discipline.
You are curious and eager to learn, and want to further develop your ability to analyse complex information. You are keen to collaborate with others, pursue team goals and learn from other people’s diverse perspectives. You strive to know and anticipate stakeholder needs, and will signal any need for change and propose alternative solutions.
You are motivated to contribute to the ECB’s mission, to serve the citizens of the EU as a member of a public institution and to work with colleagues from all over Europe. You are keen to be part of our team and to use your skills and competencies to achieve the aims of this position.
More information regarding traineeship and application process is available here.
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