Group Treasury - Benchmarks Officer

Your working environment

Group Treasury is responsible for overseeing the global use of and contribution to financial benchmarks across ING, and maintains a sound governance and control framework around these activities to prevent any form of misconduct. Financial benchmarks are deeply ingrained within ING’s business, and you will have the opportunity to work on a broad variety of benchmark-related topics together with a wide range of stakeholders.

The team

You will be part of the CCT (Control, Change & Transformation) team, a ‘1st line of defence’ business control function within Group Treasury that is the linking pin between Front office and supporting departments. Within the CCT team, you will be closely collaborating with two senior experts in financial benchmarks, covering both business as usual and change activities. We are a team of professional, dedicated and result-oriented colleagues who help each other to be successful. We contribute to ING’s strategy by helping the bank stay safe and secure.

Key responsibilities

• You drive the maintenance and evolution of the governance and control framework for ING’s contribution to Euribor
• You connect and communicate wrt the governance and control framework for ING’s contribution to Euribor with colleagues from various departments
• You keep global oversight of financial benchmark activities across ING Bank
• You stay on top of regulatory requirements concerning the EU Benchmark Regulation
• You monitor market developments in the reform of interest rate benchmarks, and initiating necessary follow-up actions (i.e. assessing their change impact on ING Bank)
• You liaise with various internal and external parties involved, including Group Treasury, Compliance, Financial Risk, Legal, IT/Operations, Financial Markets, CAS, Euribor’s administrator EMMI and other contributing banks, external auditor, supervisor (AFM).

How to succeed

The ideal candidate feels comfortable in a Group Treasury environment and has affinity with internal governance processes. Furthermore, you have:

• Affinity and/or existing knowledge of finance, banking or non-financial risk
• The willingness to build a thorough understanding of the applicable regulatory environment on Benchmarks
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills, attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills in English (oral and written)
• Comfortable in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and delivery-oriented
• Ability and willingness to adapt quickly to new concepts and procedures.
• You are a collaborative team player who believes in and incorporates ING’s Orange Code into your daily work practices.
• Prior knowledge of financial benchmarks, the EU Benchmark Regulation, Financial Market or Treasury would be an asset.

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

About us 

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!