Traineeship: Portfolio Management and Monitoring Directorate - EU Financial Institutions Division

Job Description

Job ID: 110897
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) - Counterparty Management Department (CM) - EU Financial Institutions Division (FINEU), 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

You will contribute to a defined set of portfolio management activities, ranging from financial analysis to market and portfolio monitoring, while supporting the Financial Institutions EU Division (FINEU) of the Portfolio Management & Monitoring Directorate (PMM) in improving operational efficiency, data quality, and responsiveness. In particular, you will help exploring concrete opportunities for AI-assisted automation in portfolio analysis tasks and other activities of the Division. You will focus on supporting the team on ad-hoc horizontal projects (several ongoing initiatives, streamlining, digitalisation) aimed at improving data workflows, enhancing analytical capacity.

Responsibilities

You will contribute to the identification of tasks suitable for AI-assistance, and related developments, including but not limited to the below described contributions and activities.

• Portfolio analysis through data collection, consolidation, and presentation.
• Enhancing peer group comparison frameworks and maintaining data accuracy.
• Support the continuous monitoring of market and political developments across EU countries, producing timely reports on potential portfolio impacts.
• Perform financial spreading of client banks’ financial statements, contributing to refining financial analysis spreading, improving consistency and quality, peer group comparison and maintaining data integrity.

Academic qualifications and professional skills

• Final year of studies or University degree in Business Administration, Finance or Economics.
• Excellent analytical skills and data management skills, and knowledge of financial analysis.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams). Comfortable working with spreadsheets and data analysis tools.
• 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.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge the importance of maintaining the security and integrity of the Information of the EIB Group. In case of selection for the position you agree to comply with all measures (policies, controls, document classification and management) implemented by the EIB Group to prevent unauthorized disclosure of any information or any damage to the EIB Group reputation.

We are an equal opportunities employer, who believes that diversity is good for our people and our business. We encourage all suitably qualified and eligible candidates to apply regardless of their gender identity/expression, age, racial, ethnic and cultural background, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation/identity, disability or neurodiversity.

Applicants with specific needs are encouraged to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact the EIB Traineeship Recruitment team hr_traineeship_recruitment@eib.org who will ensure that your request is handled.

Your application may be used for another campaign.

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