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BORSA ITALIANA – INTERNSHIP, SUSTAINABLE FINANCE INTERNSHIP

Borsa Italiana Spa, the company responsible for the organization and management of Italian financial markets, provides an internship opportunity as Sustainable Finance Partnership Internship.

The resource will support the “ESG - Sustainable Finance Partnership” project. This is a Partnership launched by the Euronext Group in order to aggregate leading operators of the Italian financial community who share the mission of developing sustainable capital markets for Italy. The intern will take part in an interdisciplinary and transversal project between various teams of the Euronext Group.

Workplace: Milan, Piazza degli Affari 6

Key Responsibilities

The resource will support the various teams in the following activities:

• support to the team in maintaining relations with Partners (to date 22), participating in calls, preparing the necessary meeting notes and follow-ups.

• support in the implementation of visibility activities with Partners such as for example Italian Sustainability Week, drafting of a quarterly newsletter, organization of events, organization of interviews.

• support for the development of the Partnership's medium-term strategy)

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has:

• Master’s degree in economics or finance

• Proficiency in English

• Understanding and ability to use Microsoft Office Package (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and Teams)

• High level of efficiency and attention to details

• High flexibility

• Ability to work well in teams and independently.

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

ELITE is the Euronext SMEs ecosystem to support private companies by connecting them to skills, network and capital to drive their sustainable growth in the long-term, allowing them to access private and public capital markets. The ELITE offer is built around three pillars: 

• Access to skillset and expertise, via a proprietary learning and mentoring methodology covering a range of topics, from growth strategy to innovation and internationalization, from risk management to corporate governance to funding options.
• Access to an international network: ELITE members benefit from exposure to leading peers and advisors, as well as media coverage and access to exclusive events.
• Access to growth capital, via traditional or alternative funding solutions, acting as a bridge from private to public.

We are looking for a Project Manager, Business Development & Sales Continental Europe. This new position will report directly to the Head of ELITE Europe, ad interim covered by the CEO of ELITE.

Key accountabilities
• Align the objectives for defined and agreed activities with business change objectives and authorise the selection and planning of all related projects and activities
• Plan, direct and co-ordinate activities to manage and implement complex projects from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage
• Plan, schedule, monitor and report on activities related to the project
• Determine, monitor and review all project economics, including costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources and risk
• Evaluate changes to project management practices and initiate improvement to organisation practices

• Develop an effective commercial plan to generate new business and deepen strategic relationships

• Support the product development as part of the customisation for the Expansion Plan

• Cooperate with internal stakeholders to ensure that the value proposition of product/service is comprehensive to notably generate cross-selling opportunities.

The key accountabilities only describe the main activities and are not exhaustive. It evolves depending on the expertise level and ongoing projects.

Your profile
• Experience of working in a matrix management environment and coordinating resources
• Stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to inform business decisions to achieve shared objectives
• Organisational skills – structured approach, rigorous analysis and follow-up.
• Strong analytical/problem solving mindset with the ability and willingness to get into the details to find solutions
• Strong-customer focus with the ability to understand and anticipate the customer needs
• Fluent in English and Italian, while French or another EU language is a plus

Key accountabilities
• Provide innovative solutions to enable industrialization, improve productivity, efficiency and time-to-market
• Monitor and track the performance and capacity of environments
• Use expertise in IT project delivery (project management, architecture, design, development and operations) to deliver critical in-house solutions required by IT and Business departments
• Participate in team discussions to design the best architecture for our applications
• Coordinate process improvement, re-engineering and solutions designs to respond to the development identified during reviews.
• Ensure code and design system architectures are developed to define user compatibility
• Debug and optimize code, automate tasks and repeated manual work
• Review and update existing documentation

Your profile
• In-depth technical knowledge in one or several of the following field of expertise:
Security knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and supporting infrastructure elements,
DevOps (implementation of Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment),
IaaS production environments (systems, networks, End User Computing…)
Infrastructure as code approach (Terraform and CloudFormation)
CI /CD pipelines and GitLab CI/CD, Sonarqube, etc.
• Languages/frameworks: Java, Python, JavaScript, Node, Angular, React, SQL, Bash/Shell.
• Experience in managing and delivering software or infrastructure development projects
• Experience in process improvement, re-engineering and root-cause analysis/resolution
• Flexibility and ability to work in environments with changing priorities

Key accountabilities
• Provide innovative solutions to enable industrialization, improve productivity, efficiency and time-to-market
• Monitor and track the performance and capacity of environments
• Use expertise in IT project delivery (project management, architecture, design, development and operations) to deliver critical in-house solutions required by IT and Business departments
• Participate in team discussions to design the best architecture for our applications
• Coordinate process improvement, re-engineering and solutions designs to respond to the development identified during reviews.
• Ensure code and design system architectures are developed to define user compatibility
• Debug and optimize code, automate tasks and repeated manual work
• Review and update existing documentation

Your profile
• In-depth technical knowledge in one or several of the following field of expertise:
Security knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and supporting infrastructure elements,
DevOps (implementation of Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment),
IaaS production environments (systems, networks, End User Computing…)
Infrastructure as code approach (Terraform and CloudFormation)
CI /CD pipelines and GitLab CI/CD, Sonarqube, etc.
• Languages/frameworks: Java, Python, JavaScript, Node, Angular, React, SQL, Bash/Shell.
• Experience in managing and delivering software or infrastructure development projects
• Experience in process improvement, re-engineering and root-cause analysis/resolution
• Flexibility and ability to work in environments with changing priorities

As Senior SysOps Administrator you will need to have 5+ years’ post qualification experience on:

• Expert in Linux and Windows enterprise edition
• Good knowledge of security standards and best practices, modern authentication and authorization methods
• Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting.
• Cloud management experience around basic infrastructure (IaaS & PaaS) on AWS services
• EC2 Main OS Linux RHEL based administration skills;
• EC2 Main OS Windows based administration skills;
• Serverless architecture (preferred lambda);
• Proficiency in SQL. RDBMS/NoSQL databases (Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB etc);
• Proficiency in IaaC (preferably CloudFormation)
• Proficiency in CI/CD (Git, Gitlab, Jenkins)
• Experience in ETL tools like AWS Glue, EMR, Data Pipelines;
• Welcome knowledge of tools for machine learning like AWS Sagemaker;
• Security strategy and role policy for cloud environment compliance.
• Follow-up of technical problems with business units, developers, external partners, and providers
• Acting as the escalation point for incidents and service requests not resolved in the Tier 1 and 2 organisations
• Considered a plus to have had experiences with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc.
• Have heard about tools for automated process and log management such as RPA Automation Anywhere and ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana & Logstash) is more than appreciated but not strictly required.

Key accountabilities

The Business Development & Sales continental Europe division within ELITE is responsible for the launch, promotion and management of ELITE across Europe, with a specific focus on France, Netherlands and Portugal. The Team is focused on driving ELITE internationalization process across these countries leveraging also on Euronext network to onboard and establish strong relations with European SMEs but also financial advisors, intermediaries, professional investors to facilitate the access to capital through diverse funding options (equity & debt).

The role will support ELITE Business Development & Sales continental Europe team on the following activities:

• Support ELITE project management activities both on membership and capital services, across different geographies

• Business development activities: conduct industry and target companies research, develop analysis and present those in team meetings

• Database management: databases update to ensure accuracy and consistency of target lists and customer/client information

• Promote ELITE international expansion: support on specific internal and external business opportunities, assisting clients day-to-day requests and relationship management activities

• ELITE platform: companies onboarding including due diligence analysis and risk level assessment

• Preparation of meeting material and meeting reporting notes mainly with prospect SMEs but also advisors and investors

• Support the concrete execution of the activities and services that ELITE is providing to companies within the ELITE Expansion Plan

Eligibility criteria for the V.I.E programme set by Business France:

• Nationality of an EU country

• 18-28 years old

• No tax residence or previous work experience in Italy

Your profile

• Master Degree in Management or Finance

• Fluency in both spoken and written English

• Good knowledge of Corporate Finance

• Proven ability to work in team, and great interpersonal skills

• Strong capabilities in PowerPoint and Excel

• Data analytics skills (e.g. power BI)

• Flexibility, enthusiasm to work within a fast paced work environment

• Must be detail oriented, resourceful, self-motivated and proactive

• Will to relocate for 1 year and another location for 1 additional year

Key accountabilities:

• Writing guides, procedures and other documentation related to the framework.
• Help populating control plan
• Liaising with correspondents
• Training users
• Helping rollout system
• Collecting control results and producing reporting
• Contributing to the Risk Management / Internal Control integration drive

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required:

• University-level studies focused on control, risk management, and compliance.
• Knowledge of financial markets, operations and / or IT an advantage.Self-starter, confident
• Skilled at relationship building
• Presenting excellent analytical skills
• Able to communicate effectively with all levels including senior executives, both orally and in writing.
• Fluency in English is required.

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
• Provide innovative solutions to enable industrialization, improve productivity, efficiency and time-to-market
• Monitor and track the performance and capacity of environments
• Use expertise in IT project delivery (project management, architecture, design, development and operations) to deliver critical in-house solutions required by IT and Business departments
• Participate in team discussions to design the best architecture for our applications
• Coordinate process improvement, re-engineering and solutions designs to respond to the development identified during reviews.
• Ensure code and design system architectures are developed to define user compatibility
• Debug and optimize code, automate tasks and repeated manual work
• Review and update existing documentation

Your profile
• In-depth technical knowledge in one or several of the following field of expertise:
Security knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and supporting infrastructure elements,
DevOps (implementation of Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment),
IaaS production environments (systems, networks, End User Computing…)
Infrastructure as code approach (Terraform and CloudFormation)
CI /CD pipelines and GitLab CI/CD, Sonarqube, etc.
• Languages/frameworks: Java, Python, JavaScript, Node, Angular, React, SQL, Bash/Shell.
• Experience in managing and delivering software or infrastructure development projects
• Experience in process improvement, re-engineering and root-cause analysis/resolution
• Flexibility and ability to work in environments with changing priorities