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The European Corporate Finance Department is the Client Coverage and Origination team for European Corporate and Financial Institutions clients in EMEA, and is responsible for the client management of over 350 global names.
The ECFD Coverage Associate Team is the team giving in-depth business support to the six Industry Teams in ECFD Coverage. The team provides a highly flexible level of support across the business by undertaking a breadth and depth of activity encompassing client management, business development and marketing, deal origination and reporting.
It is the perfect host team for our interns as it will enable them to work with, and be supported by, a cohort of multi-disciplined, highly trained, technically-gifted professionals.
Profile Summary
Our interns will follow a structured programme of learning and development incorporating key technical skills, industry and client knowledge, product understanding, risk and conduct awareness and personal skills.
This learning will be undertaken whilst also building knowledge and understanding of Mizuho, and the culture and behaviours that underpin the organisation. Our interns will be:
- Proactively participating in client relationship management and origination, working closely with the portfolio Relationship Managers. Industries include Energy, Utilities, Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, Services, Financial Institutions, Transport and Industrials.
- Supporting client engagement and business management activities and assisting in the preparation of internal briefing papers and memos, client account plans, client relationship return models, high quality presentation materials and pitchbooks and financial analysis to support marketing activity and credit applications for new transactions.
- Assisting in the maintenance and input of client activity data and pipeline items into the client relationship management system, and using the system to prepare analysis and reports.
- Gaining a holistic understanding of ECFD’s business and services, including our credit & rating related functions and our Strategic Solutions Group.
- Developing a network across the organisation; building relationships that enhance knowledge and understanding.
- Communicating with confidence and demonstrating strong interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrating a desire to learn and gain a breadth of knowledge and understanding
The Internship programme is a 10 week programme starting in June 2023. The aim is that successful interns will be offered a permanent position on the 2024 Mizuho Graduate Programme (commencing September 2024).
Candidates must be in their penultimate year of undergraduate study and be available to start full-time employment from September 2024 and have the permanent right to work in the UK.
To be successful at Mizuho, you must have a passion for financial services and identify with our values of winning spirit, inspiring trust and diversity of thought.
Additional Information
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive
Mizuho Bank is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Agency of Japan. In the UK, Mizuho Bank is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority and limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority.
Mizuho Bank provides financial and strategic solutions for the increasingly diverse and sophisticated needs of international clients, focusing its efforts on serving major corporations, financial institutions, individuals and public sector entities.
A relationship management approach to serving clients enables Mizuho Bank, together with group companies including Mizuho Trust & Banking and Mizuho Securities, to develop customised solutions in areas such as corporate, structured and project finance, transaction banking and risk management.
