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.
Description
ISS Brussels is seeking a number of corporate governance research interns for the spring of 2016. 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:
- Assist the analysts in scrutinizing companies’ documents (agenda of the annual general meeting, articles of association, annual reports and meeting materials) with regard to their corporate governance performance and proposals submitted for shareholder approval.
- 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
This internship is remunerated and will run for three to six months (depending on the assigned market) starting in February 2016
Requirements
- 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 Turkish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, or Greek
- 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.
Applications
Applicants should email a cover letter along with a CV in English to EMEA_Recruitment@issgovernance.com using the reference “Corporate Governance Research Internship - Southern EU” in the email subject.
Only selected candidates will be contacted