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Are you a Finance or Accounting student who wants to build up your experience within Finance? This might be the opportunity you are looking for!

Our Accounts Receivable team is looking for an Accounts Receivable Intern to join us.

Start date: Immediate

Your tasks:

• Managing pre-paid accounts, monitoring activity levels and liaising with customers to ensure appropriate levels of funding
• Ensures customer invoices are processed accurately and in time
• Reconciliation of bank statements, as well as reconciliation of other methods of payment
• Daily payment allocation and invoice settlement
• Identifies and highlights credit notes and write-off concerns
• Processes daily accounts receivable by monitoring and collecting overdue debtors; actions on significant risk issues and minimizes DSO (Days Sales Outstanding)
• Creates and maintains customer master data
• Escalates issues promptly (dispute management)
• Proactively engages with internal departments for the resolution of customer queries
• Prepares monthly statements for customers
• Develops and maintain professional working relationships with customers, colleagues and other internal departments
• Supports Management at all times to enable the Finance Function achieves its goals and objectives
• Provides reporting when needed
• Analyzes data and identify trends
• Assists in internal and external financial audits, ensuring compliance with internal controls, procedures and policies
• Continuous improvement initiatives

You have:

• Eye for detail and accuracy
• Highly analytical
• Ability to identify risks
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills and follow through
• Displays initiative, highly proactive
• Adaptable and shows flexibility
• Strong negotiation and problem solving skills
• Assertive and persistent with sense of urgency
• Persuasive and able to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Listens to feedback and learns from mistakes
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Target orientated

We offer:

• International team of colleagues and a beautiful office only 2 minutes’ walk from Dam square
• A pleasant, informal and professional company culture of team spirit with a can-do attitude
• Hybrid workplace (3-2 office-home ratio)
• A fast-pace exciting environment which will give you the opportunity to experience an all-around O2C role
• Internship allowance;
• Valuable professional experience;
• A work space in our beautiful historic building in the heart of Amsterdam.

Key accountabilities

• Be part of an internal Team associated to CA4U service (Corporate Actions Platform for Euronext CSDs);
• Contribute on the Production schedule for CA4U Application Support service (24/5 support -Business Hours onsite, outside Business Hours on call)
• Follow the best practices namely ITIL and ISO 20000;
• Triage of incident related to Corporate Action Platform (namely Megara Platform). Responsibilities are:
  • to resolve complicated incident which have been raised from 1st Level and need extensive system and application knowledge.
  • Maintain functionality of the software by evaluating current hardware and software components supporting Megara Platform
  • Support the Incident Manager in coordinating the decision for eventual emergency fix once assessed that software fix is needed to resolve the incident
  • Definition and setup of application alerts to be monitored by 1st level
  • Technical configuration of Megara as listed in the relevant Configuration Matrix
  • Manage the relationship with software vendor (Vermeg) and the escalation to them as 3rd Level if solutions are not available
  • Being involved in all the planned Megara platform software deployment tasks in order to:
    • assesses eventual need of new technical configuration to be tested
    • impact on already existing software CI and updated them, if the case, within the CMDB
• Contributor for changes in Megara due to software CRs.
• Contributor in the CAB. Responsible for upgrades of Megara Platform
• Contributor on Problem Management process if the problems are related to the application
• Identifies trends and assess opportunities to improve processes and application;
• Collaborates with other back-office team members to ensure seamless business execution, reinforce positive morale, and uphold company values;
• Raises and tracks issues and conflicts, remove barriers, resolve issues of medium complexity involving stakeholders and escalate to appropriate level when required;
• Establishes and maintains credible, professional relationships with clients, internal business lines, etc.;
• Solicits and responds to feedback while gaining commitment and support;

Required Qualifications
Mandatory

• Solid knowledge in Linux administration and clustering (Red Hat Cluster) 
• Excellent knowledge of scripting/configuration languages (Bash, Python, Terraform, etc.)
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL management (installation, configuration, optimization, querying)
• Proficiency in network administration and traffic analysis on TCP and UDP multicast protocols
• Proficiency with AWS
• Good knowledge of Atlassian tools: Confluence, Jira, etc.

Good To Have 

• Knowledge of Tidal software
• Knowledge of Coralogix and Logicmonitor
• Basic knowledge of Kafka monitoring (metrics)

Functional:

• Knowledge of glossary and concepts of finance.
• Good to have an experience supporting the trading applications like Omnesys, Fidessa, or similar.

Soft Skills:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Install product packages and configure products accordingly.
• Provide technical support for trading applications, ensuring their smooth operation and resolving any issues that may arise.
• Monitor the applications and proactively identify and address any potential problems or bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with the development or the relevant next level team to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, with strict adherence to defined SLAs.
• Assist traders and other end-users with any questions or concerns related to the application.
• Maintain and update documentation related to the application, including troubleshooting guides and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with other teams, such as infrastructure and database administrators, to ensure the overall stability and performance of the application.
• Proactive and diligent monitoring capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

The resource will support the team on the following activities:

• Monitoring and management of the potential and actual corporate actions (including capital increases, mergers and demergers, stock split and reverse stock split, listing of stock warrant and convertible bonds, tender offers) involving companies listed on Borsa Italiana equity markets;
• Processing of Borsa announcements containing corporate actions technical provisions;
• Monitoring of the compliance by listed companies with the Exchange Rules;
• Management of the relevant institutional procedures (in particular: suspension, resumption and delisting of financial instruments, and enforcement of Exchange Rules).

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has:

• Master degree in Law or Economics, with a strong interest for corporate law and corporate finance
• Fluency in both spoken and written English
• Strong team working attitude
• Good communication skills
• Flexibility to cover shifts

Key Responsibilities

The candidate will support the teams in the following activities: 

• Support for the production and update of marketing collaterals online/offline
• Support to the database management and CRM
• Support to the content curation of the elite website and platform
• Events calendar update
• Events management support (i.e. logistics; suppliers; contracts; speakers; guests; follow ups)
• Social media activities support

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Degree in Communications, Marketing or Events Management
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, Dynamics 365 would be a plus
• Ability to multi-task while meeting multiple deadlines
• Excellent organizational skills
• Team working attitude 
• Strong interest in the financial services industry
• Effective Italian and English verbal&written communication skills
• Previous experience in a similar role will be considered as a plus

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible for:

• Schedule and prepare the board meetings (preparation of agendas and notices of meetings of the boards of directors, boards of statutory auditors and shareholders' meetings of the Italian companies in the Euronext group);
• Preparation of supporting documents for meetings of the corporate bodies and drafting of the relevant minutes;
• Drafting and review of corporate documentation (deeds/deliberations/minutes; up
• Dating of the corporate registry and handling relations with providers for filings with the Company Registry and the Revenue Agency);
• Supporting the development and implementation of projects aimed at digitizing the meetings of corporate bodies.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has:

• Degree in Economics or Law;
• Excellent knowledge of English (both written and spoken);
• Team working;
• Attention to details;
• Proactivity;
• Good communications skills.

Key accountabilities
• Ensure clearing services are delivered accurately, on time and within specified standards of quality, those services include daily margins and default funds payments, collateral deposits and returns, expiries of derivatives contracts, members default management, projects, testing of new services
• Ensure settlement services are delivered accurately, on time and within specified standards of quality, this services include monitoring and management of settlement activities, adjustment management for corporate actions, buy in/sell out management, members default management
• Applies expertise to resolve complex and escalated operational issues in an accurate and timely manner, ensuring adherence to KPIs, agreed contracts and internal requirements
• Provide client support in liaison with Sales and Membership teams and escalate client queries when necessary
• Contribute to operation enhancement projects to streamline workflow and provide better support to frontline business units
• Drives continuous improvement of process and assess and select improvement opportunities that provide long-term value and minimize operational risks

Your profile
• Significant experience in Operations, Risk positions and Clearing Operation in the financial markets industry
• Strong prior knowledge in Clearing products and Settlement operations
• Account management
• Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving attitude
• Excellent client relationship
• Able to work accurately and effectively under pressure
• Strong time management skills required to meet the many internal and external deadlines
• Good supervisory skills
• Fluent in English; while French, Italian and Deutch are a plus

Key accountabilities
• Ensure clearing services are delivered accurately, on time and within specified standards of quality, those services include daily margins and default funds payments, collateral deposits and returns, expiries of derivatives contracts, members default management, projects, testing of new services
• Ensure settlement services are delivered accurately, on time and within specified standards of quality, this services include monitoring and management of settlement activities, adjustment management for corporate actions, buy in/sell out management, members default management
• Applies expertise to resolve complex and escalated operational issues in an accurate and timely manner, ensuring adherence to KPIs, agreed contracts and internal requirements
• Provide client support in liaison with Sales and Membership teams and escalate client queries when necessary
• Contribute to operation enhancement projects to streamline workflow and provide better support to frontline business units
• Drives continuous improvement of process and assess and select improvement opportunities that provide long-term value and minimize operational risks

Your profile
• Significant experience in Operations, Risk positions and Clearing Operation in the financial markets industry
• Strong prior knowledge in Clearing products and Settlement operations
• Account management
• Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving attitude
• Excellent client relationship
• Able to work accurately and effectively under pressure
• Strong time management skills required to meet the many internal and external deadlines
• Good supervisory skills
• Fluent in English; while French, Italian and Deutch are a plus

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.