ERI Long Term Internship (Rolling Intake)

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas is a leading international bank with a strong presence in banking and financial services worldwide. The company offers a wide range of banking and investment solutions to individual, corporate, and institutional clients.

Your role

About the team:

The ERI team sits within the Real Assets EMEA department within Capital Markets and has a leading position as adviser and arranger of limited recourse financing solutions across the EMEA region in the Infrastructure and Energy sectors.

Purpose:

• Assist the senior team members in the day-to-day business activities
• Contribute to a variety of tasks allowing a general introduction to the business

Scope:

• Part of the Energy, Resources & Infrastructure Team within Real Assets, Capital Markets, covering EMEA / UK activities

Core Accountabilities of Role:

• Contribute to the day-to-day execution of deal activity across Energy, Resources & Infrastructure EMEA
• Ensure quality and timely preparation of all materials required for deal preparation

Marketing and Origination Support:

• Contribute to the preparation of screening memos, commercial proposals/pitches and, as applicable, research papers, preliminary financial modeling, and debt sizing analysis
• Prepare presentations and pitches
• Perform background industry and company research, synthesizing information from diverse sources
• Interact with internal parties in both marketing and execution
• Track developments in the market

Execution:

• Develop or review/run financial models, prepare related deliverables, and (as applicable) interact with the client on those aspects
• Actively contribute to the preparation of credit papers, information memoranda, and certain due diligence aspects (in particular any model audit)
• Participate in legal aspects (notably those aspects of the term sheet and finance documentation related to the model)
• Assist in the KYC on-boarding process
• Challenge senior officers on both commercial and technical aspects of transactions
• Ensure handover of the responsibility for new deals to the Portfolio & Analytics team upon closing, by agreed guidelines

Regulation:

• Ensure that all regulatory and commercial training is completed on time and refreshed as required
• Responsible for adherence to the Bank’s corporate policies, to its internal Compliance regulations as well as to appropriate external Regulators

Training & development

All the internship supervisors at BNP Paribas are well-equipped to provide interns with maximum support in every aspect of their internship. Part of their working day is dedicated to supervising and advising you on working methods, time management, learning technical skills, or developing your soft skills. You can be sure that you will be accompanied every step of the way. So whether you are doing a summer internship or a long-term internship, the company wants you to feel comfortable from the moment you arrive!

Benefits

BNP Paribas offers competitive salaries and benefits and a working environment where you’re valued as part of the team. 

• Competitive salary
• Early responsibilities with a chance to engage in meaningful and impactful work
• For the guarantee of a healthy work-life balance
• For access to student-specific benefits (cultural, sport, travel, etc) – depending on your location

Career progression

The long-term internships are the perfect platform to launch a long-term career with BNP Paribas. Running between six and 11 months, and with learning and development opportunities throughout, you’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of the investment banking sector and discover where a career in banking could take you. Successful internships can be a fast track into one of the company's graduate programs.

Work-life balance

BNP Paribas has built success on a system of values that fosters mutual respect and puts the team before the individual. The company believes in supporting colleagues’ family and personal lives by helping them strike an equitable balance between their personal and professional goals.

Culture & vibe

BNP Paribas fosters an open, inclusive, and collaborative environment, where all are made to feel welcome from day one. The company has a friendly staff that believes in supporting each other and working together on specific tasks and projects to achieve success.

About you

Qualifications:

• A degree from a leading university with an excellent academic record; or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• Previous experience within top-tier investment banks or infrastructure funds and in similar business areas

Client:

• Understand the client's needs and provide a first level of answer within his/her perimeter of responsibilities

Expertise:

• Proven credit analysis experience and commercial knowledge of capital markets, including debt markets and ERI sectors
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
• Determination to learn and improve performance
• Capacity to meet deadlines under pressure
• Circulate correctly and promptly information to senior members
• Rigor and detail-oriented, allowing for a gradually increased level of autonomy and efficiency in the production of models and analysis

IT:

• IT literacy in Microsoft Office

Language:

• Fluent in English, another European language would be beneficial

Behavioral:

People:

• Strong team player
• Creativity in suggesting adequate ways to solve issues
• Critical of own work / Professional reaction to positive and negative feedback and use of this feedback to improve

Conduct:

• Strong capacity to support and foster a culture of good conduct
• Demonstrate proactivity, transparency, and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks
• Consider the implications of his/her actions on colleagues, partners, and clients before making decisions, and escalate issues to your manager when unsure.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• youtube.com
• group.bnpparibas/en/careers/candidate-student/intership
• careers.bnpparibas.co.uk/internships
• careers.cib.bnpparibas/internships-and-apprenticeships/