What is required?
- Academic degree in a quantitative discipline such as AI or Analytics
- Good command of the English language, both verbally and in writing
- You're analytical and detail-oriented
What will you get?
- €600 gross per month
- 22.5 to 37.5-hour workweek
- 30 vacation days (based on full-time employment)
- Travel allowance (if not in possesion of a Student OV-card)
- Technical and professional training opportunities
- Internship from September to January or February to June (different periods are also possible if your university allows it)
- Possibility of a regular contract after the internship
What will you do?
- 10% Supporting deployment of AI-based tooling in reconciliation
- 20% Assisting in automating financial risk data processing and anomaly detection
- 10% Collaborating with Risk managers and Risk System Engineers
- 30% Participating in model evaluation activities
- 20% Contributing to documentation
- 10% Helping to build dashboards to visualize AI-generated risk indicators
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As a Risk Analytics & AI Intern at Mizuho you will gain hands-on experience in financial risk reporting, data analysis, and regulatory compliance within a dynamic banking environment. You will participate in an AI-based tooling implementation to build reconciliation checks for financial risk reports. You will use the reconciliation tool to challenge the completeness and accuracy of existing reports by identifying anomalies across various data sources using AI/ML. You will then propose radical reconciliation checks to ensure data integrity using AI.
In addition, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Risk environment by assisting in documenting the Risk Reporting landscape at Mizuho. You will document the team’s models, which will help the team streamline documentation and will help you get a complete understanding of the banking model landscape.
You will be working in the Risk Analytics & Reporting team, which is part of the Risk Management department of Mizuho Europe. The team consists of two employees and a Lead, who will be your supervisor. You will be working together closely with your team members, as well as with other employees within the Risk Management department.
If you enjoy working with AI/ML, are detail-oriented and find it a challenge to be involved in many differnet tasks, then this is an internship for you.
Working week
On a good working day you have a productive meeting, where you discuss strategy and future state with your colleagues in London. There’s a lot to learn from your experienced colleagues, and they take the time to answer your questions.
On a more challenging working day, you have a lot of meetings and little time to work on practical solutions.
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- Weekly team meeting
- Analyzing output of AI reconciliation tool
- Lunch
- Collaborating with Risk Managers on flagged discrepancies
- Example weekly schedule
- Prioritization meeting with IT
- Model validation meeting
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- Daily stand-up
- Automating data validation using AI/ML scripts
- Lunch
- Dashboard development for internal risk insights
- Reviewing model documentation for regulatory compliance
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- Daily stand-up
- Updating risk model documentation
- Lunch
- Documenting anomalies and drafting proposed reconciliation checks
- Analyzing output of AI reconciliation tool
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- Daily stand-up
- Working with London team on future state architecture planning
- Lunch
- Refining dashboard for stakeholder reporting
- Drinks
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- Daily stand-up
- Finalizing documentation and anomaly reports
- Lunch
- Summarizing insights and preparing weekly wrap-up notes
- Planning upcoming week and reading up on new AI regulations
Firsthand experience
Growth
The goal of Mizuho Bank Europe is that employees have the right skills, knowledge and attitude to drive results they need to achieve. Their key principle is that trainings should be accessible to anyone and contribute to their strategic business goals. Because of that, employees are allowed to follow a study or training in a relevant field. Additionally, Mizuho promotes internal and international vacancy’s so employees can move from one department to another.
Working at Mizuho
Mizuho Bank Europe N.V. (MBE) is a fully-licensed bank incorporated in the Netherlands and supervised by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM). With over 45 years of experience providing financial services to Japanese and non-Japanese customers in the region, Mizuho has developed a solid client base and expertise throughout the European single market - with a focus on the markets in the Benelux, Iberia, and Central & Eastern Europe - using their EU Banking Passport.
We are proud to share that Mizuho Financial Group has been named among the top 100 on TIME’s World’s Best Companies list for 2024.
- Based in Amsterdam (Zuidas)
- 148 employees in the Netherlands
- Over 65.000 employees worldwide
- 42% / 58%
- Average age 39 years
- Possibility to work flexible and remote
- Business casual
