Internship Risk Culture & Behavioural Risk Assessment

We are seeking a motivated intern to join the Risk Culture & Behavioural Risk department (RC&BR) at ING. The RC&BR department was set up in March 2022 to put risk culture on the agenda of the bank globally. Its objective is to create a clear vision, a well-aligned strategy, and a sound methodology to identify, assess, and bring change to the way employees of ING act on risks.

The team

The internship is in the Risk Culture & Behavioural Risk Assessment team. This team works on detecting areas within the bank that are prone to behavioural risks, and conducts Behavioural Risk Assessments across the bank to identify and thoroughly analyse high-risk behavioural patterns and its drivers. After a Behavioural Risk Assessment, the Assessment team hands over to the Risk Culture & Behavioural Risk Intervention team, who work together with the business to mitigate the identified behavioural risks through behavioural interventions that impact all levels of the organization.

In addition to conducting Behavioural Risk Assessments, the team is also responsible for monitoring INGs Risk Culture by developing and maintaining the Risk Culture Maturity Report. The team produces the Risk Culture Maturity Report every year to create insights for the Management Board Banking (MBB) and local ING entities to have a meaningful conversation about INGs Risk Culture. 

Roles and responsibilities

As part of this new and enthusiastic team, you work in a global context. We offer hands-on and research internships for master’s students:

• During a hands-on internship, you will be a fully-fledged member of our team, working on behavioural risk assessments, conducting interviews and observations, and helping to build reports with key messages. This allows you to learn about all aspects of our team’s activities first-hand.
• During a research internship, you conduct research on a topic agreed upon with your mentor at ING and university supervisor. We have several topics that could be relevant for a thesis, such as speak-up behaviour, risk culture or behavioural risk. While working on your thesis, you will also support the team on various projects related to risk culture and behavioural risk.

The minimum total hours of the internship is 480 hours, and the maximum is 840 hours. Within this bandwidth we are flexible. Both types of internships will give you the opportunity to gain valuable work experience while discovering whether a position at ING is something you aspire.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

We are looking for a talented and motivated master’s student who:

• Beliefs that working on risk culture and behavioural risk is key for a bank
• Has a background in organizational psychology, or other relevant expertise
• Has affinity with understanding behaviour in organisations
• Is enthusiastic about working with quantitative and qualitative data
• Is collaborative and always strives to learn and grow
• Is fluent in (business) English

Rewards and benefits

This is a great opportunity to train with highly skilled people who are experts in their field. You’ll do a lot and learn a lot – not only about your specialist area and the bank, but also about yourself and whether this type of environment is right for you.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Internship allowance of 700 EUR based on a 36 hours work week

• Your own work laptop

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

During the duration of your internship at ING, it is mandatory to be enrolled at a Dutch university (or EU-university for EU passport holders).

About our internships

Every year, more than 500 students join the ING internship program. While there are no guarantees about your future, many of our former interns move into a permanent role or onto our International Talent Programme (traineeship). Whatever happens, an internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, to build up your own network, and to learn about many different aspects of banking – put simply, it’s a great start to your career. During the duration of your internship at ING, it is mandatory to be enrolled at a Dutch university (or EU-university for EU-passport holders).

Jump on.

We encourage you to apply if you think you fit our profile and if you are enthusiastic about this role.