Internship Sustainable Finance Wholesale Banking in Brussel

Graduate intern- Sustainable Finance Brussels, Wholesale Banking ING

Job description

Sustainable Finance Brussels is looking for a graduate intern to support with:

• Conducting company research with an emphasis on sustainability strategy and performance
• Composing high-quality slide decks used in client presentations that you can attend
• Assessing external ‘green’, ‘social’, ‘sustainable’ or ‘transition’ criteria, incl. ESG ratings and EU regulatory developments and applying these to ING’s clients
• Maintaining data quality, incl. populating databases and keeping track of market developments
• Focus will be on bank lending products

Are you a proactive, enthusiastic student who is ready to work in a dynamic commercial environment? Are you able to work with large amounts of information in an organised and structured way? Then join us!

Our requirements

• Master level graduate, yet still registered as student
• Strong ability and affinity to work with Excel and PowerPoint
• Dedication to work in a high-pressure environment with challenging deadlines
• Strong affinity with sustainability and finance
• Proactive, inquisitive team player
• Fluent in English, both written and verbally
• Available 4-5 days a week for a period of min 3 months (ideally 6 months)  
• Living in Belgium

Our offer

An opportunity to:

• Work in a leading Sustainable Finance team with passionate, internationally diverse experts
• Focus on the Belgium, Luxembourg & Nordic markets as part of the Brussels based team responsibility.   
• Learn how ING approaches sustainability, one of the bank’s key strategic ambitions, in several sectors and regions globally
• Get exposure to a highly professional commercial environment, incl. a diverse corporate client base and various lending products
• Learn about regulatory developments that aim to stimulate sustainable economic growth

Your work environment

For ING, sustainability is a strategic theme to lead the way to tomorrow’s economy. Our approach is to shift the mainstream portfolio towards sustainability and integrate it into all client relations and transactions. We act as commercial innovator by developing sustainable solutions for new business models and upcoming markets. Major topics are the energy transition and circular economy, supported by strong developments on the regulatory front. We need to be on top of such developments to provide an innovative and differentiating offer to our clients. This provides solid business opportunities for ING which are both profitable as well as contributors to a sustainable global economy.

The Sustainable Finance team has a mandate for all Wholesale Banking areas globally with colleagues based in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, New York and Singapore. This fast-growing commercial team with continuous business development has an open, collegial culture.