EIF POSTING

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is seeking to recruit for its Resource Planning Division – Business Planning Unit, at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a Trainee – Business Planning

QUALIFICATIONS:

• University degree in Business Administration, International Business, European Studies, Economic Studies, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or similar
• Sufficient knowledge and understanding of EIF mission, activities and market in which EIF operates (with a focus on EIF’s equity business line)
• Fluency in common IT tools (MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
• Any familiarity with advanced Excel functionalities or other data analysis tools will be considered an asset (notably SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, or similar)
• Any experience in data analysis, banking/finance, consulting or in institutions similar to EIF would be considered an asset

COMPETENCIES:

• Good drafting, analysis and synthesis skills
• Excellent written and spoken English. Knowledge of other EU languages would be considered an advantage
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure, multitask, self-organise and meet strict deadlines, while at the same time delivering high-quality results
• Ability to discriminate between taking initiative and working autonomously under given objectives vs. seeking for guidance or approval by team hierarchy
• Good interpersonal skills

Under the guidance of a senior member of the team and working with a more junior member, you shall:

• Assist in the implementation of the deal allocation process at operational level, to ensure its appropriate and prompt application across equity business line (i.e. provide support for the internal deal allocation meetings, prepare draft minutes, prepare relevant documents and draft rationale required for allocation decisions, etc)
• Develop a systematic data quality control process and/or tool for the investment preferences of equity mandates, and fund parameters, in order to ensure the proper allocation of mandate resources
• Assist in the development of tools and dashboards, to further streamline the deal allocation process execution
• Systematically update the relevant deal allocation documentation (e.g. process and model manual, etc), in order to ensure that the process is properly detailed, applied and audited
• Propose additional parameters that can be included in the deal allocation process (e.g., sectorial, thematical, geographical)
• Record additional mandate requirements that are not captured by the investment preferences above and consolidate them in a document, to ensure that all process parameters are considered for the allocation of resources