Stage in Borsa Italiana

BORSA ITALIANA - AP ACCOUNTANT INTERNSHIP

Borsa Italiana, the company responsible for the organization and management of Italian financial markets, provides a job opportunity within the Finance Operations team, in particular in the AP Team.

Workplace: working from home/office (Milan, Piazza degli Affari 6)

Key Responsibilities

The candidate will support the team in the following activities:

• Keeping track of employees’ expense notes
• Managing the process of POs (Purchase Orders)
• Handling the passive cycle accounting for suppliers and intercompanies
• Preparing financial reports
• Checking of monthly closures

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has:

• Master Degree in Economics, Business or Accounting
• Good knowledge of English (both written and spoken)
• Experience at using different types of tools and software (Microsoft Office)
• Precision, attention to details and teamwork

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.

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.