Kick-start your career at the very heart of ING Wholesale Banking!

Join the leading Wholesale Bank in the Netherlands and get a deep understanding of ING client-base, product offering and sustainability strategy, while acquiring the skills that will set you up for success as an all-round finance professional. Are you up for the challenge? Do your thing!

The opportunity & work environment
ING is a global bank with a strong European footprint. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. With 38 million customers and almost 60,000 employees, our priority is to give our customers a superior experience and access to our sector expertise and global network.

Within ING, Wholesale Banking (‘WB’) Netherlands is catered to our corporate and institutional clients to which we provide a suite of strategic products and services combined with profound sector expertise. As market leader, we are a strategic partner for our clients, both in daily banking services and financial advice, mergers and acquisitions, sustainability and capital markets.

We are looking for an ambitious young professional with up to two years of working experience who is eager to join our dynamic client-facing Corporate Sector Coverage (‘CSC’).

You will be working within a team of 14 colleagues including 6 Senior Relationship Managers and supporting them with a scope of well-defined tasks related to client management. The CSC team is responsible to originate, develop and manage the relationship with the largest corporates in the Dutch market.

You will have the unique opportunity to engage in strategic dialogues with CEO’s, CFO’s and Treasury teams of the clients and learn from it. You will build up profound finance and market knowledge to apply to projects and commercial initiatives alongside the team, as well as other sector and product teams to provide our clients with a full spectrum of products and services.

Your role and responsibilities

• Perform (financial) analyses on clients, sectors, and peers in an international environment
• Be responsible for collecting client and sector information and analysing this information for solution offering processes
• Actively participate in the preparation of financial models and client pitch books, client briefings, etc.
• Develop and apply in depth sector/industry/product knowledge to develop, maintain and grow relationships with prospective and existing clients to stimulate and manage demand for financial products and services offered by the organization and also create valuable relationships with our clients
• Support the Senior Relationship Managers in originating and coordinating new business, monitor returns and profitability and the realisation of the teams’ objectives and KPIs
• Coordinate with client teams in account planning, execution and monitoring efforts for the assigned client portfolio
• Liaise with all product teams within the wholesale bank (Transaction Services, DCM, ECM, Corporate Finance, Lending, Client Services, etc.) to ensure superior client experience
• Have frequent contact with the client on day-to-day business
• Share knowledge and foster a culture of collaboration and inclusiveness, client focus, continuous improvement and innovation

How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Key criteria

• Fluent in Dutch and English (hard criteria as you will communicate mainly with Dutch speaking clients) and current residency in the Netherlands
• Academic Master’s Degree
• Maximum of 2 years working experience
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, interest in sustainability
• Knowledge of/affinity with financial modelling
• Knowledge of IT applications (Microsoft Excel, Power Point etc.)
• Commercial drive and strong interest in financial services

Who are you

• An enthusiastic person with high level of self-motivation willing and eager to educate further and gain knowledge of the banking sector
• A person with strong analytical and organisational skills, can process requests with diligence and speed
• Able to work under pressure and prioritise tasks
• A self-starter, able to take ownership and have a talent for taking it on and making it happen
• An excellent communicator, able to efficiently co-ordinate a multiple stakeholder environment
• A collaborative spirit and strong team player
• A person with client focused mindset able to understand and cater client needs
• A person with high-level of integrity. You live by the ING Orange code - display honesty, prudence, and responsibility.

Rewards & benefits
We offer you an excellent career opportunity to gain experience in a dynamic professional working environment and an ambitious team who will be supporting your endeavours. Exposure to high profile transactions, sustainability market leadership and client relationships. Opportunity to develop your own extensive network within ING. On-the-job training along with a mentorship from one of the relationship bankers. The possibility to grow your job and personal skills through trainings and courses, talent management programs!

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

Want to apply directly?
We are eager to really get to know you, so let your personality shine in your cover letter and CV! We are looking forward to your application. This can either be in Dutch or English.

Please note, multiple interview steps (2-3 F2F interviews) involving various business stakeholders and a possible business case can 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!