Internship - Corporate Governance Research - Scandinavia

ABOUT ISS

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is the world’s leading provider of corporate governance solutions for asset owners, investment managers, and asset service providers. ISS’ solutions include objective governance research and recommendations, end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions, turnkey securities class-action claims management, and reliable global governance data and modeling tools. For further information on ISS, please visit our web site at www.issgovernance.com.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Do you have an interest in corporate governance and capital markets? Do you have an educational background in law, economics, finance or business? Would you like to receive in-depth training in the latest developments in corporate governance? Would you like to learn about the inner workings of an AGM?

ISS Brussels is seeking a number of corporate governance research interns for the spring of 2015. You will be guided by experienced analysts and learn about corporate governance, gaining an understanding of technical terminology in the corporate governance and investment management field.

Your main responsibilities will be to assist the analysts in scrutinizing companies’ documents (agenda of the AGM, articles of association, annual reports and meeting materials) with regard to their corporate governance performance and proposals submitted for shareholder approval.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist our analysts by closely inspecting the agendas of annual general meetings;
• Learn about and then formulate vote recommendations;
• Gather data based on information in the company’s public documents;
• Engage with companies in order to procure additional information;
• Prepare reports in English detailing the analyses and explaining why a certain vote recommendation was given.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• An interest in corporate governance, capital markets, research and data collection;
• A relevant bachelor degree (law, economics, finance, or business);
• A good eye for detail;
• Fluent English writing skills;
• Fluent command of Swedish, Danish or Norwegian;
• The ability to assimilate large quantities of information, work independently and take initiative while also being a team player;
• An organized and structured mind to deal with large quantities of work and strict deadlines.

Ideal candidates should have a bachelor degree in law, finance, and/or economics, or in the process of obtaining such a degree, a good eye for detail, strong analytical ability, numeracy, strong oral and written communication skills, a basic understanding of capital markets and the ability to work independently while cooperating with other team members.

This internship is remunerated (€ 1000 monthly + lunch vouchers + bonus if appropriate) and will run for five to six months starting in January 2015.
Applicants should email a cover letter along with a CV in English to EMEA_Recruitment@issgovernance.com using the reference “Corporate Governance Research - Scandinavia” in the email subject.

Please note that due to the great number of applications we receive, we can only respond to selected candidates.

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