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Description

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing in emerging and frontier markets, offering market research, investment advisory and asset management services. We are regulated by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and our daughter company Symbiotics (UK) Ltd has an investment firm license from the FCA in the UK. Symbiotics currently employs 135 people and is headquartered in Geneva, with further offices in Zurich, London, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Singapore and Cape Town. Since 2004, we have invested over USD 4bn in more than 350 microfinance institutions across around 80 emerging and frontier markets, working with more than 30 investment funds and many institutional investors.

We are a fast-growing, market-leading company, offering a dynamic work environment in the growing impact investment space

We are looking for:

An Intern in charge of assisting the Market & Credit Risk team in the tasks linked to methodology development, as well as rating publications and risk monitoring of institutions and countries.

Job Description:

Methodologies

• Credit Risk Rating / Social Performance : support the development of the scoring methods through adhoc analysis of rating migrations and defaults rates, and collection of additional data

KYC Checks

• Perform consistency and content checks on KYC cases presented to the Credit Committee

Rating publication and risk monitoring

• Support Analysts in the institutions and countries rating publication process


• Support Analysts in the production of the unit’s operational dashboards and risk monitoring reports

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree currently studying for Master's degree in Economics, Finance or equivalent


• Interest for microfinance


• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills


• Fluent in English. Spanish is a plus


• Valid Work Permit for Switzerland


• Available for 3 months