Internship: Research project on ESG Client Transition Plan scoring

In the SSG tribe, our mission is to provide state-of-the-art solutions to retain our status as the wholesale banking leader in financing our clients’ sustainable transition. We collaborate with professionals dedicated to operationalizing our sustainability strategy and delivering cutting-edge solutions. Our team focuses on measuring and managing emissions, client transition plans, other sustainability-related data, and business intelligence to steer our business.  

The team

Within the Client Engagement & Transition Area, we discover and deliver the products which enable ING Front Office employees to engage with its clients and finance their transition towards a sustainable future. This involves data analytics and insights, score and frameworks development as well as workflow tools, delivered in an intuitive way. 

It’s an ever-growing area, where data, analytics, legislation, sustainability experts, banking experts and multi-disciplinary product teams come together to brainstorm, form policies and deliver products that make this complex ESG world intuitive and set ING as a pioneer in Sustainability.   

We are a tribe that is fully aligned with ING’s goals, that puts our customers at the center, with autonomous, happy & empowered teams to deliver products that our users love. Our product group is design centric and we work in dual track between discovery and delivery activities. We manage product development from idea to scale and track their impact, in an iterative manner.   

As an Data / Business Analyst Intern in this area, you will work in a multi-disciplinary product team together with your Product Lead, Designer, Data Analysts, Full Stackers and Data Engineering. You will also be closely working with the PMs and designers in the tribe,  to enable discovery and design across the entire ESG product area group.   

Project

In 2026, our team, together with Global Sustainability and ESG Risk are engaging in updating and improving the data and frameworks used in client engagement. We’re aiming to improve the methodology of our Client Transition Plan scoring and making this more actionable for front office, such that relationships with our clients become stronger.

Help us explore and define the new data models, as well as making it available in specific dashboards like PowerBI, as well as support the scoping of our clients for further automations.

Roles and responsibilities: 

• High-Quality Execution: Refine and manage needs and data models, working closely with your CJEs, Engineering and SMEs 
• Help with monitoring our KPIs, automating reporting, scoping and monitoring
• Stakeholder Collaboration: partner with internal stakeholders across design, engineering, and communications to ensure seamless product development and delivery.  
• Customer-Centric Approach: engage with design, stakeholders and users to gather insights, understand pain points, and prioritize features that enhance engagement   
• Managing and improving the processes we use to deliver ESG data to our users.  

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. You will collaborate with subject matter experts.

Are you a PhD student looking for a thesis project and are you interested in this one? Do you furthermore:

• Have solid experience with Python
• Have solid skills in statistics and data modeling
• Get at least six months to do your research project
• Aim to go for a publication
• Bring good vibes to your fellow colleagues

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-hour work week
• Your own work macbook
• 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).

Questions?

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About our internships

Every year, more than 350 students join our 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.