Traineeship in Market Operations - Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland - The European Central Bank

The European Central Bank

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

vor 2 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

General Information

Type of contract Traineeship

Who can apply? EU nationals eligible for our traineeship programme

Grant The trainee grant is €1,170 per month plus an accommodation allowance (see further information section)

Working time Full time

Place of work Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Closing date

Your team

You will be part of one of four divisions in the

Directorate General Market Operations:

the Bond Markets and International Operations Division, the Financial Operations Services Division, the Money Market and Liquidity Division or the Market Operations Analysis Division.

In addition, the senior management team, directly reporting to the Director General, is recruiting.

Our Directorate General has around 180 staff responsible for preparing and executing the monetary policy and foreign exchange operations of the Eurosystem.

We manage the ECB's foreign reserves and own funds, and we develop and maintain the framework for its financial market activities.

We also coordinate the implementation of the Eurosystem's asset purchase programme and reserve management services.

To effectively achieve our goals, we monitor and analyse financial market developments that are relevant for market operations.

As well as maintaining regular contact with financial market participants, our Directorate General works closely with other ECB business areas, the national central banks (NCBs) of EU Member States and the Group of Ten central banks.

Market Operations traineeships are aimed primarily at graduates with an interest in data analysis and data management, financial markets and/or monetary policy implementation.

Your role

As a trainee in the Directorate General Market Operations, you will contribute to the operational and analytical tasks of your division, working closely with experts on a diverse range of monetary policy activities. You will have a unique opportunity to develop your teamwork skills. You will gain handson experience, delivering insights, findings, reports, presentations and other analytical outputs to colleagues in your division, senior management and the Eurosystem's task forces and working groups.

As part of one of our teams, especially our data teams, you will also showcase and expand your data analysis skills as you:

collect and process data;

- investigate and integrate data from different sources;
- visualise and communicate findings using interactive tools such as Tableau;

Throughout your traineeship you will be given opportunities to learn and contribute to the goals of your team while collaborating with more senior colleagues on some of the activities listed below:

Bond Markets and International Operations Division
- supporting the coordination and implementation of the asset purchase programmes and the management of foreign reserve portfolios and other ECB portfolios managed by the Division;
- contributing to the regular production of various reports on financial markets, for example covering developments in US, Japanese, Chinese and euro area government and corporate bond markets, and/or foreign exchange, equity and commodity markets;
- assisting with the production of ad hoc analyses and summaries of meetings with external counterparties, in particular investment banks.

Financial Operations Services Division
- assisting with the reconciliation of ECB nostro cash, gold and custody accounts used in connection with the ECB's own funds, monetary policy, centralised foreign exchange and a range of other transactions carried out by the ECB, and of Eurosystem NCB accounts used for operations involving the ECB's foreign reserve assets;
- contributing to the management of legal documentation related to the ECB's counterparties and intermediaries and helping to analyse and follow up on regulatory changes.

Money Market and Liquidity Division
- analysing money market developments using transaction-level financial market data and gathering feedback from external parties;
- analysing bidding behaviour in the ECB's monetary policy operations, examining changes in the Eurosystem balance sheet and investigating the effects of monetary policy decisions on liquidity conditions and the money market;
- supporting our monitoring of the euro short-term rate and the coordination of market contact groups.

Market Operations Analysis Division
- monitoring and analysing the performance of the Eurosystem monetary policy implementation framework and contributing to the preparation of policy proposals for its improvement;
- helping maintain and enhance the Eurosystem collateral framework on a policy, operational, and technical level by performing data analysis, testing software and improving internal business intelligence reporting;
- monitoring and assessing the financial eligibility of monetary policy counterparties and contributing to the analysis of topics such as minimum reserve requirements, targeted longer-term r