The European Central Bank is offering an internship opportunity to join the Finance team within the Directorate-General for Market Infrastructure and Payments in Germany. This Directorate-General manages all matters relating to the Eurosystem’s market infrastructures, including the platforms, applications and associated services in the areas of cash settlement, securities settlement and collateral management. As well as providing comprehensive support for the Eurosystem’s TARGET services (TARGET2, TARGET2-Securities, TARGET Instant Payment Settlement and the Eurosystem Collateral Management System), it is constantly exploring new technological and business initiatives.
- help define pricing policies for TARGET services;
- create reporting dashboards and aggregated data sources;
- support the invoicing, accounting and financial reporting processes for all projects and services within the Directorate-General;
- collaborate with the relevant teams within the Directorate-General and other business areas of the ECB, as well as with external stakeholders of TARGET Services, in order to successfully carry out the Finance team’s tasks;
- Contribute to the analysis of functional, regulatory and operational scenarios.
Requirements:
- a bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in finance, business administration, economics, computer science or a related discipline;
- Experience in presenting complex concepts (including the visualisation of technical concepts and data) to various stakeholders and audiences;
- advanced knowledge of the MS Office suite (including macro programming and the creation of pivot tables in Excel);
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official EU language, in accordance with theCommon European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- knowledge of international financial markets, payments and securities;
- experience in accounting and finance;
- Experience working with Tableau or other data visualisation tools and databases;
- experience in financial and IT analysis for businesses.
Benefits:
- The trainee grant is €1,170 per month plus a housing allowance (see the ‘Additional Information’ section).
Application deadline: 9 July 2026.
More information: Hablamos de Europa.
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