Traineeship in Operational Risk and Business Continuity Management
Reference:
2018-013-TRA
Type of contract:
EU nationals who are eligible according to our traineeship programme
Who can apply:
The trainee grant is €1,050 per month plus an accommodation allowance.
Working time:
Full-time
Place of work:
Frankfurt, Germany
Closing date for applications:
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Your team
You will be part of the Operational Risk and Business Continuity Management (ORM/BCM) team. We are a team of 17 colleagues responsible for developing and maintaining the ECB’s operational risk, business continuity and incident/crisis management policy frameworks, supervising their implementation, and providing methodological support to business areas on related matters. We coordinate bank-wide risk assessment updates and associated risk acceptance procedures as well as business impact analysis and business continuity testing activities. We also monitor and report on risk situations and high-impact incidents at the ECB and organise crisis management (CM) exercises, acting as the CM Support Team in crisis situations. We are currently working on the roll-out of an ORM/BCM software tool, which will serve as a repository for operational risk and business continuity related information. You will interact with risk coordinators and business continuity team leaders from all business areas of the bank. To further enhance the diversity of our team, we particularly encourage applications from [female] candidates.Your role
As a trainee you will:- support the maintenance of the internal system containing operational risk and business continuity related information;
- support the maintenance of the existing external loss database and monitor the news to keep aware of external risks;
- support the data maintenance of the ECB-wide mass notification tool and the associated testing;
- contribute to the review of business impact analysis and threat analysis and related undertakings;
- contribute to the annual risk update and the change management process in respect of business continuity requirements;
- contribute to other activities such as benchmarking exercises, staff training and information campaigns.
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:- a bachelor’s degree or higher in business or public administration, auditing, non-financial risk management, information technology or other relevant subject;
- interest in operational risk management, business continuity and/or crisis management issues;
- experience in analysing data and producing reports;
- an advanced command of English and an intermediate command of at least one other official language of the EU.
- experience in the financial/ banking sector;
- experience with VBA in MS Excel;
- basic knowledge and understanding of the functioning of the ECB and the Single Supervisory Mechanism.
