Trainee

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is seeking to recruit for its Resource Planning Division – Business Planning Unit, at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a Trainee – Business Planning

Duration: 5 months

Starting date: October 2025

Specific Post Environment

The EIF (European Investment Fund) is a specialist provider of risk finance to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. Within its equity fund-of-funds business, EIF operates as an asset manager, relying on its clients' capital — typically sourced from public institutions, private investors, and EU programs — to carry out its investment activities. Having a number of different sources of capital, requires EIF to ensure equal access to all suitable investment opportunities (such as venture capital, private equity, private credit and infrastructure funds, as well as co-Investments) across clients, in order to manage conflict of interests. In 2017, the EIF has reinforced this process through the creation of a dedicated deal allocation framework. This process provides an independent forum for internal decisions on the allocation of resources to equity transactions. The deal allocation team, part of EIF’s Investment Office, Central Front Office Services Department, Resource Planning Division, is in charge of managing this process.

The role requires regular interaction with EIF Services, particularly with EIF’s equity investment and fundraising teams. Additionally, stakeholders include other EIF internal services such as Risk Management, Compliance and Legal Services.

Overall objective:

You will support the execution of tasks related to the implementation and improvement, when necessary, of the EIF deal allocation process.

Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of a senior member of the team and working with a more junior member, you shall:

• Assist in the implementation of the deal allocation process at operational level, to ensure its appropriate and prompt application across equity business line (i.e. provide support for the internal deal allocation meetings, prepare draft minutes, prepare relevant documents and draft rationale required for allocation decisions, etc)
• Develop a systematic data quality control process and/or tool for the investment preferences of equity mandates, and fund parameters, in order to ensure the proper allocation of mandate resources
• Assist in the development of tools and dashboards, to further streamline the deal allocation process execution
• Systematically update the relevant deal allocation documentation (e.g. process and model manual, etc), in order to ensure that the process is properly detailed, applied and audited
• Propose additional parameters that can be included in the deal allocation process (e.g., sectorial, thematical, geographical)
• Record additional mandate requirements that are not captured by the investment preferences above and consolidate them in a document, to ensure that all process parameters are considered for the allocation of resources

Expected outcome:

• Process or tool to ensure the systematic quality check of deal-allocation-related parameters
• Updated documentation related to the deal allocation process
• Other tools or dashboards facilitating the deal allocation process implementation

Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration, International Business, European Studies, Economic Studies, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or similar
• Sufficient knowledge and understanding of EIF mission, activities and market in which EIF operates (with a focus on EIF’s equity business line)
• Fluency in common IT tools (MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
• Any familiarity with advanced Excel functionalities or other data analysis tools will be considered an asset (notably SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, or similar)
• Any experience in data analysis, banking/finance, consulting or in institutions similar to EIF would be considered an asset

Competencies:

• Good drafting, analysis and synthesis skills
• Excellent written and spoken English. Knowledge of other EU languages would be considered an advantage
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure, multitask, self-organise and meet strict deadlines, while at the same time delivering high-quality results
• Ability to discriminate between taking initiative and working autonomously under given objectives vs. seeking for guidance or approval by team hierarchy
• Good interpersonal skills

Deadline for applications: 25 July 2025

• Due to high volume of applications, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunities employer, who believes that diversity is good for our people and our business. We encourage all suitably qualified and eligible candidates to apply regardless of their gender identity/expression, age, racial, ethnic and cultural background, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation/identity, disability or neurodiversity.

Applicants with specific needs are encouraged to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact the EIF Recruitment team Recruitment@eif.org who will ensure that your request is handled.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge the importance of maintaining the security and integrity of the Information of the EIB Group. In case of selection for the position you agree to comply with all measures (policies, controls, document classification and management) implemented by the EIB Group to prevent unauthorized disclosure of any information or any damage to the EIB Group reputation.