Intern – Internal Audit & General Finance – REGIS-TR (f/m/d)

As an Intern at Internal Audit and General Finance of REGIS-TR, you will have an excellent opportunity to enhance your knowledge of business and IT processes and to gain an insight on the Internal Control System and financial aspects of a regulated company. If you have good analytical and writing skills, combined with an inquisitive nature, we would welcome you to join us. We are looking for a motivated, forward-thinking team player. The ideal candidate is pursuing a bachelor’s / master’s degree in business or finance, or has recently graduated.

Company Description

REGIS-TR is a European central trade repository, which was launched in 2010 as a joint venture between Clearstream, the International Central Securities Depository (ICSD) and Iberclear, the Spanish Central Securities Depository (CSD). REGIS-TR collects and administers details of derivative transactions reported by its clients to provide market regulators and participants with a reporting hub for all manner of transaction reporting resulting from current and future regulatory initiatives such as EMIR, FinfraG, SFTR etc.

Field of activity

The mission of Internal Audit is to enhance and protect organisational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight. Internal Audit is a permanent function that, as the third line of defence, delivers independent, objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the company’s operations. It helps the company accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes. Internal Audit also provides an independent, objective and critical review of the first two lines of defence.

The objective of financial support is primarily to monitor that budget expectations are being achieved, from both a cost and revenue perspective.  This provides senior management with the transparency required to facilitate effective cost / revenue decisions, in order to drive forward in the company with regards to its strategic objectives.

Your responsibilities

• General and administrative support to the REGIS-TR team in Luxembourg across Finances and Internal Audit
• Support activities for the regular proceedings of Internal Audit
• Research tasks on business and IT processes (e.g. analysis of reuglations, industry standards and best practices)
• Support the generatoin of reporting and presentations on Internal Audit
• Support financial analyses related to monthly closing of accounts, identify process improvements opportunities
• Prepare monthly and quarterly presentations of financials and billing data to management and board level
• Support the yearly and quarterly forecast process by developing standard templates
• Review, update and finetune existing procedures
• Set up of efficient cost control processes
• Support month end billing control processes
• Manage dunning process for clients with overdue invoices
• Support of the statutory annual audit

Our requirements

• You must have completed at least 2 years of your university studies in Business Administration, Finance, Legal or similar OR have graduated for less than 2 years
• Excellent Microsoft Office Skills
• Database skills would be an advantage
• Adaptability, ability to work in a team, multitasking
• Proficiency in both written and spoken English is a must, any additional language will be considered as an asset