Internship Wholesale Banking Finance - Analytics & Strategic Steering

Ready to help shape the future of Wholesale Banking?

Are you a highly motivated student with a passion for finance, analytics, and solving complex business challenges? Do you want to work on projects that directly support strategic decision-making at one of Europe's leading banks?

As an intern within Wholesale Banking Finance, you will help translate complex financial and business data into actionable insights that support ING's growth ambitions. You will work alongside experienced finance professionals and gain exposure to senior stakeholders across Wholesale Banking, Treasury, Risk, and the business.

The Team

Finance Business Advice (FBA) is at the heart of Wholesale Banking (WB), supporting ING's key business domains, including Lending Services (LS), Transaction Services (TS), Capital Markets & Advisory (CMA), Financial Markets (FM), Sectors, and Global Management Information & Reporting. We act as the financial sparring partner to senior management, providing insights and analysis that drive performance, support strategic decision-making, and help shape the future direction of the business.

Our teams are responsible for management information, forecasting, budgeting, financial steering, and strategic planning across Wholesale Banking. In addition, we support high-priority transformation initiatives that are critical to the future growth and success of the business.

You will join a highly international and collaborative environment and work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Business, Treasury, Risk, Strategy, Data & Analytics, and Operations, providing a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the full value chain of a global bank.

Role and Responsibilties

This internship offers a unique opportunity to combine curiosity, analytical thinking, and technical skills to help drive business performance and strategic decision-making across ING Wholesale Banking.

During your internship, you will contribute to 2-3 projects across different areas of Wholesale Banking Finance, covering topics such as Lending, Transaction Services, Capital Markets & Advisory, Financial Markets, Sectors, and Global Management Information & Reporting. These projects will give you exposure to key business priorities while helping you develop a broad understanding of how a global bank steers growth, profitability, and balance sheet resources.

Alongside your project work, you will be embedded within one of the Finance Business Advice teams and gain hands-on experience with management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business performance analysis. You will work closely with experienced finance professionals and international stakeholders across Finance and the business, gaining valuable insight into the financial and strategic decisions that shape Wholesale Banking.

What makes this internship exciting?

• Learn how Wholesale Banking creates value and how a global bank operates.
• Work on strategic projects with real business impact.
• Gain exposure to senior management and international stakeholders.
• Develop analytical, business partnering, and stakeholder management skills.
• Build hands-on experience in finance, strategy, data analytics, and performance steering.

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.

To take on this challenging and rewarding opportunity, you’ll need: 

• Strong communicator who can clearly translate insights to different audiences
• High energy and ambition, with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset
• Analytical and structured thinker, comfortable working with complex data
• Hands-on with data, from exploration to insight generation
• Skilled in Python and/or R
• Fluent in English (business level)

Rewards and benefits

This is a great opportunity to train with highly skilled people who are experts in their field. You’ll do a lot and learn a lot – not only about your specialist area and the bank, but also about yourself and whether this type of environment is right for you.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Internship allowance of 700 EUR based on 36 hours work week
• Your own work laptop
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

During the duration of your internship at ING, it is mandatory to be enrolled at a Dutch university (or EU-university for EU passport holders).

Questions?

Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

About our internships

Every year, more than 350 students join our internship program. While there are no guarantees about your future, many of our former interns move into a permanent role or onto our International Talent Programme (traineeship).

Whatever happens, an internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, to build up your own network, and to learn about many different aspects of banking – put simply, it’s a great start to your career.