Traineeship in Market Operations in Frankfurt am Main bei The European Central Bank

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.

The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.

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 hands-on 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;
• assist professional teams in developing IT applications.

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 effect