EIB Trainee: Portfolio Management & Monitoring Directorate

Job Description

Job ID: 110912
Entity: European Investment Bank
Deadline: Tuesday 18th November 2025

This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence. The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment.

The EIB, the European Union’s bank, is seeking to recruit for its Portfolio Management & Monitoring Directorate (PMM) - Joint Middle Office Department (JMO) - Counterparty Management/KYC Centre of Expertise (KYC), at its headquarters in Luxembourg: TRAINEE

Duration: 5 months (fixed start date: 1^st March 2026)

(With possible extension up to 6 months if required by University)

Please note that, as marked on our Webpage, only applications from nationals of the Member States of the European Union, as well as citizens from countries that have been officially granted candidate status to join the EU, can be considered (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine).

Candidates whose Erasmus+ programme overlaps with the duration of the traineeship will not be considered.

Please note that you are requested to limit your applications to a maximum of three traineeship publications. We will only consider and retain the first three applications submitted.

Objective of the traineeship

Counterparty Management/KYC Centre of Expertise (KYC) Division is part of the Joint Middle Office (JMO) Department which is a key component of the EIB’s 1^st Line of Defence. Two of the principal objectives of the members of the Division are to ensure:

• The identification and verification of our Clients (and their related parties) at onboarding and their ongoing monitoring on a risk based approach, and
• The timely and flawless execution of ML-FT risk assessment of EIB Counterparties.

You will assist in the on-going project of verifying, and where needed of enhancing, the KYC data, therefore contributing to the maintenance of high-quality client records.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for quality checks of client data, and where needed of enhancing data, under the supervision and guidance of a senior KYC analyst. The tasks will include executing data searches, input and updating of reports.

Academic qualifications and professional skills

• Final year of studies or University degree preferably in Legal, Business Administration or other similar university degree.
• Excellent knowledge of standard Microsoft Office tools (in particular Word & Excel);
• Previous exposure/experience in data quality checks will be an advantage.
• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English. Knowledge of other EU language would be an advantage.

Competencies

Find out more about EIB core competencies here

Please note that deadline for application is on the November 18^th, 2025.

More information on our EIB Traineeship Programme and Provisions for In-service training can be consulted on our EIB website; www.eib.org/en/about/careers/categories…