The ECB’s Directorate General Market Operations ensures that monetary policy decisions are implemented and properly reflected in financial markets. To this end, we carry out the Eurosystem’s monetary policy and foreign exchange operations. We also act as the ECB’s eyes and ears in the financial markets, monitoring market developments through market intelligence and comprehensive analysis. As part of our activities in the financial markets, we also manage the ECB’s foreign reserve and own funds portfolios. We develop and maintain the Eurosystem’s monetary policy implementation framework, prepare policy proposals for its continuous improvement and adapt the Eurosystem’s tools to a tokenised ecosystem.
This internship offers graduates with an interest in financial data analysis, financial markets and/or monetary policy implementation a unique opportunity to gain practical experience in central banking.
The ECB is an inclusive organisation and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.
Your role
As an intern in the Directorate General Market Operations, you will join one of our divisions, depending on your skills and organisational needs. There, you will contribute to operational and analytical tasks, working closely with experts and analysts. You will have a unique opportunity to develop your teamwork skills and gain practical experience, presenting insights, conclusions, reports, presentations and other analytical outputs to your division colleagues and various Eurosystem stakeholders.
You will also be able to demonstrate and expand your data analysis skills by:
- collecting, managing and integrating data from different sources as part of one of our data management teams;
- visualising and communicating findings using tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Python;
- bringing innovation to business processes, using automation, new technologies, data analysis and visualisation tools.
Requirements:
- a bachelor’s degree or higher in finance, economics, econometrics, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or a related discipline;
- Familiarity with financial markets and the ECB’s monetary policy operations;
- Experience in using one or more programming or query languages or tools used in economic and financial analysis (e.g. SQL, Python, R, MATLAB, Stata, VBA or Java).
- experience in preparing, analysing and visualising complex data (e.g. financial market data, transaction-level data, microdata, high-frequency data or survey data);
- good knowledge of the MS Office suite;
- advanced (C1) command of English and intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official EU language, in accordance with theCommon European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Benefits:
- The internship grant is €1,170 per month plus an accommodation allowance (see further information section).
Deadline:
- 9 March 2026.
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