Analytics traineeship

Analytics traineeship

It all starts with data

It all starts with data – but also with the people who know what can and may be done with it and how data can be used for the customer’s benefit. ING is currently in the midst of a radical and exciting transformation from a traditional bank into a tech company. A big part of that is that we are becoming ever-more data-driven.

Client data is the source of extremely valuable information. Client data helps us – providing it’s possible and permitted - to develop products that are optimally aligned with customer needs. This enables us to empower them to stay a step ahead financially in life and in business. Data drives innovation and helps to provide a solid basis for business decisions. We are already heavily data-driven in many areas, but our ultimate goal is for data to be the logical starting point for innovation, product development and client interaction at all layers and in all departments of the bank. 

The Analytics traineeship: for data lovers who will help the bank to stay ahead

ING is transforming at a rapid pace, but we want to – and can- move even faster. In order to accomplish that, we want to recruit ‘data lovers’: talented individuals for whom data is second nature and who are looking for the ideal preparation for a future role as a data scientist or data modeler; people who can show teams across the entire bank just how much is possible with data and then help them to unleash those possibilities. As an Analytics trainee, you’re the one who can fulfil this role.

Your first year: two challenging projects

Your HR trainee manager helps you to choose your first rotation, which lasts for six months. You set to work tackling a concrete challenge ór work along in a squad (team) within one of our nine Analytics domains, including:

  • Pricing and Risk. Data is indispensable when deciding on our pricing strategy and when analysing and predicting risks, aided by intelligent models.
  • Client Interaction. To continuously improve our service offering, it’s crucial that we really know our customers. Our goal: 100% personalised customer contact every time.
  • Intelligent Operations. How can we optimise processes for our customers and our own employees?
  • Financial Crime & Regulatory Tech. How can we ensure ING is an even more secure and more compliant bank?

Just some examples of assignments include:

  • Working on improving customer dialogues within Retail Banking
  • Contributing to a pricing project within Wholesale Banking
  • Collaborating with colleagues on building a predictive model for Risk
  • Working on people analytics for HR.

During your first rotation you also work together with fellow trainees from other tracks on a group assignment to tackle a challenge that is relevant to our business. This gives you the opportunity to expand your network within ING, fine-tune your stakeholder management skills and learn more about yourself at the same time. The group receives guidance from an external coach.

It’s up to you to arrange your second assignment. Now it’s a matter of using your network and your own initiative. We encourage you to gain international experience during this six-month rotation, if the circumstances allow it. For example, previous analytics trainees have worked in Madrid, Frankfurt or London.

Your second year: your third assignment and starting in a permanent role

You’re still in charge, your third rotation is arranged by you. Your HR trainee manager will help you in the decision making; will this last rotation be done to deepen knowledge of your business (within your track), of do you decide to do this rotation within a different track? Imagine: as an Analytics trainee you can gain experience as IT Engineer, or learn about one of our products or processes within the Wholesale Bank. Or as Retail Banking trainee, you can do a rotation within Risk or Operations & Change. 

Your permanent role lets you go deeper into the analytics discipline right from the start. You will start in your permanent role for example as a Data Scientist, Data Modeler or Data Engineer.

Sustainability

The world needs to transition to a low-carbon economy and the financial sector has an important role to play in this. At ING we take that role seriously and want to be a banking leader in driving that transition. Our integrated approach to climate action* covers four priorities, for example steering the most carbon-intensive parts of our portfolio towards reaching net zero by 2050.

As a trainee, you will also contribute to ING’s sustainability goals. How? There are two ways to do this:

  1. One of your three rotations will be sustainability related. There are many options! You can join a Sustainable Finance team, work on financial health topics or join a Green Tech initiative.
  2. The other option is to do a (group) assignment, next to your rotation, on a sustainability related topic. The choice is yours.
* Society is transitioning to a low-carbon economy. So are our clients, and so is ING. We finance a lot of sustainable activities, but we still finance more that’s not. See how we’re progressing on ing.com/climate.

Training and coaching

The point of being a trainee is to develop yourself and learn a lot, and we offer you every opportunity to do so. Your HR trainee manager coaches you during your three rotations and helps you to get the maximum benefit from your traineeship. During your traineeship, you participate in two Global Trainee events together with all ING’s trainees – across all tracks – from around the world. The first event is at the start of your traineeship, the second event is towards the end of your two-year traineeship. The events will be held live once circumstances allow this, and are focused on developing your professional and personal skills.

During your traineeship you follow a flexible training programme. For every traineeship we set one mandatory training, with content which is very relevant to your part of the bank. On top of this, you can follow two training courses that you’ll choose, which match with your rotation or permanent role.

Contributing to the transformation from a traditional bank into a tech company

Are you keen to help us build a new type of bank? To make a tangible contribution to ING’s exciting transformation from a traditional bank into a tech company? To work as a data expert across the entire breadth of the bank and hence to get to know lots of different departments within ING? Do you want to work in multidisciplinary, international teams? To tackle really huge datasets? And would you like your work to have an impact on millions of customers worldwide? If so, the Analytics traineeship at ING is ideal for you!

Apply

Choose the Analytics traineeship at ING and allow your talent to flourish. Apply for the vacancy of Analytics trainee and convince us of your potential. If you’re successful you’ll be invited to take an online assessment, which is step 2 of the selection procedure for the International Talent Programme.

You can find detailed information about the application and selection procedure here.

We can only accept complete applications, i.e. your CV and (provisional) transcripts of your bachelor and MSc grades at university level. It’s not necessary to upload a cover letter because you will be asked to answer questions about your motivation during the application process.

Interested?

Unfortunately it is not possible to apply for the Analytics traineeship in 2024.

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