internship description

The Business Internal Auditor is part of the Euronext Internal Audit Team located in Paris, Porto, Oslo and Milan and covering the entire group i.e. all locations and all entities.

Specifically, he/she, under the responsibility of the local internal audit responsible, will be located in Milan and will be considered as a member of the Euronext Internal Audit Team.

In this sense he/she will support to the execution of the audit plan and the department’s internal initiatives and projects. This implies:

• Support the identification and evaluation of risks (of the relevant process scope or entity depending on the topic of the mission) to be included in the audit scope (could be concerning markets, CSDs, Clearing House, CCP, post trade & support functions such as IT, Compliance, Risk etc).
• Contribute to the definition of the internal audit work program and perform the audit work on a given scope. Investigate, analyze, and conclude on potential weaknesses or anomalies identified. Propose realistic recommendation addressing the root cause in order to remediate on the identifies weaknesses.
• Support the creation of the audit work documentation following the Euronext Internal Audit Methodology.
• Participate to meetings with auditees supporting the identification and debriefing of findings, recommendations and the whole audit report.
• Support the audit recommendations follow-up process.
• Support the continuous monitoring and risk assessment annual exercise allowing to define the following year audit plan.
• Support the reporting of the Internal Audit Function.
• Participate in department’s internal initiatives and projects.
• Contribute to the Internal Audit Community.

Candidate Profile

Education, Experience and Knowledge:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Finance or Business Administration.
• Fluency in English and Italian is a must – French, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norvegian can be a plus but are not mandatory.
• Excellent skills in Office Microsoft Pack (Excel, Access, Word, PPT).
• Data analytics affinities or experience is a plus.
• Experience with evaluating risks and controls is a plus.
• Experience in financial services and financial regulations is a plus.

Skills:

• Excellent analytical skills
• Results oriented and team spirit mindset
• Excellent communication skills, writing, listening and speaking
• Excellent synthetic skills both written and oral
• Strong interpersonal and interviewing skills
• Excellent prioritization skills and ability to multi-task on varying projects and initiatives.
• Curiosity and Ability to effectively elicit information from within and outside Euronext and professionally substantiate findings and conclusions.

Key accountabilities • Analyze risks and economic trends pertinent to the organization. • Analyze of Euronext financial performance and work with division heads to achieve strategic growth targets. • Review actual organizational performance against budgets, identify differences, produce analyse of reasons and provides recommendations. • Support upper-level management in annual budget processes. • Coordinate the financial analysis needs of the company within country- or cross-business line segments. • Monitor the overall group performance. Your profile • Strong ability to manage projects and work collaboratively and productively with other departments to obtain a successful result. • Extensive experience in financial planning and analysis. • Well organized with strong problem solving, conflict resolution and analytical skills. • Strong speaking and writing skills, including the ability to produce effective presentations for decision making. • Persuasive and able to influence stakeholders at all levels. • Proficient in MS tools usage (e.g., Excel, Access, SharePoint) and VBA programming is a plus. • Fluent in English; while French, Italian and Deutch are a plus

• Perform pro-active maintenance and common administration tasks across all database systems used within the company.
• Designing and implementing databases procedures and reports in the Fixed Income context in accordance to end users needs and requests
• Analyse requests and develop new data structures and procedures.
• Structure and plan DBA activities providing technical support to the team.
• Suggest technical solutions, specify implementation details, formalize and document the solution agreed.
• Ensure that agreed deadlines related to relevant projects are met.
• Provide proactive and reactive data management support to MTS internal and external users

The ideal candidate has:

• Significant existing knowledge and experience with business and functional analysis
• Deep and extensive knowledge of the post trade – securities area
• Possess strong knowledge of financial products, business processes within the Central Securities Depository scope
• 5+ year experience in similar position
• Knowledge of Settlement area and T2S platform
• Knowledge of Asset and Corporate Action management
• Preferably certification or knowledge of Scrum and Lean Six Sigma
• Team working, problem solving, proactive
• Excellent knowledge of English (both written and spoken), Italian mother tongue

Company

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. It operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. With close to 1,930 listed issuers and around €6.3 trillion in market capitalisation as of end December 2022, it has an unmatched blue-chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest centre for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, FX, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices. The Group provides a multi-asset clearing house through Euronext Clearing, and custody and settlement services through Euronext Securities central securities depositories in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. In addition to its main regulated market, it also operates a number of junior markets, simplifying access to listing for SMEs.

Department

Within the Risk & Compliance department, a team of more than 40 talented professionals in Risk, BCM and Compliance, spread across our various geographies, is ensuring to preserve the value assets and reputation of the company. Supporting risk identification and assessment and the implementation of risk mitigating actions, informing and raising staff and business awareness, monitoring and ensuring compliance with the appropriate regulations are the core activities embedded in our team.

Role summary

The “Markets risk” team is covering the second line of risk for all ENX markets including key areas of market operations and surveillance. The stakeholders are located across the different Euronext markets locations ( Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Brussels, Dublin, Olso, Lisbon and New York).

We are looking for a new Markets Risk Officer to join this team.

Within this team, the Markets Risk Officer will contribute in implementing the company’s ‘three lines of defense’ Risk policy and work with team-based Risk Coordinators to develop Risk Profiles and Key Risk Indicators by identifying and documenting with the business the various risks the company may face.

• She/He will examine likelihood and impact of risk, work with business teams to identify or develop mitigation factors and review residual risks.

• She/He will participate in key initiatives and strategic projects of Markets area to help projects to address the risks and have an independent view.

• She/He will be responsible for guaranteeing a proper risk management framework (governing documents, processes and tools) for area of responsibility.

• She/He will collaborate with the Head of Unit in ensuring risk management activities are in line with internal and external requirements and expectations from senior management, Board of Directors and external stakeholders.

Key accountabilities

• Assist and advise management of Business and Support Functions on managing risks by identifying, analyzing, advising on mitigation and keeping tools aligned.

• Assist in the development, management and monitoring of key risk indicators across Euronext,

• Contribute to the development of risk reports for better enterprise-wide communication.

Profile

• Excellent written and oral communicative skills in English. Any other european language is a plus (French,Italian, Dutch...)

• Energetic, team player and able to multi-task while prioritizing activities.

• Strong attention to detail.

• 3 to 5 years of experience, with previous risk management demonstrated.