Internship Sustainability Risk

Are you passionate about sustainability and ready to play a key role in managing Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) risks at ABN AMRO? Are you interested in developing analytical skills related to climate, pollution, biodiversity, human rights or animal rights risks?

Then the ABN AMRO Sustainability Risk team is looking for you as their next intern.

As part of Risk Management, Sustainability Risk delivers sound and simple risk management solutions to increase resilience while enabling clients’ success and the bank’s growth.

At a glance

ABN AMRO is looking for an intern to join the Sustainability Risk team. The team is responsible for managing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) related risks the bank is exposed to and works closely with experts across the bank and with external sustainability specialists to co-create and fulfil data needs.

Our team consists of senior and junior professionals with a mix of knowledge and skills in the field of ESG, risk management and data.

Your job

You will become part of the Sustainability Risk team and provide support on one or more topics the team is working on. Examples include:

• Translate developments in science and societal issues into actions for the bank
• Support the evaluation of the materiality of ESG events on the bank’s profitability and reputation
• Policy requirements to limit biodiversity loss for lending activities
• Transition or physical risk heatmapping
• Enhancing ESG sector and country rating methodologies
• Facilitate ESG data sourcing and storage
• Implementation of sustainability regulations
• And much more!

Your profile

• You are a Bsc / Msc Student
• You are available for approximately 6 months
• Knowledge of or affinity with environmental, social and governance related risks
• Curious and analytical at heart: you are eager to learn about new topics and your analytical skills are well developed; you are able to identify, deconstruct and solve problems
• Proactive, communicative and independent: you take initiatives to solve issues and are not shy to give your opinion and to ask for assistance
• Professional working proficiency in English is a must; professional working proficiency, especially spoken, in Dutch is strongly preferred
• Team-player: you can easily reach out to and collaborate with colleagues, either helping them out or requesting assistance. You are interested to get to know the people in the team.

What do we offer?

• A unique opportunity to learn about sustainability risk in one of the largest financial institutions in The Netherlands
• A good balance between your educational objectives (i.e. research) and learning from participating in day-to-day risk management activities
• A monthly compensation of €750, based on 36 hours per week
• Social activities such as drinks and sports events to ensure a fun and engaging internship experience
• We offer all ABN AMRO interns a work laptop
• Partly working from home? We offer good facilities in order to provide flexible working from home
• A personal development coach, and much more so that you can reach your absolute potential
• Open atmosphere and a learning environment
• Work closely together with departments across ABN AMRO and other institutions
• Various career opportunities after internship

Working at ABN AMRO means working on projects that matter and that impact millions of customers. For that, we need people who can make a difference.