Finance | Business Economics Internship: Support the Corporate Finance Department

Introduction

Are you a final year bachelor student or master student in the field of Business Economics or Finance? Do you have a proven affinity with topics related to corporate finance? If yes, this internship could be interesting for you!

Background information

Within ASML’s Corporate Treasury department, the Corporate Finance function is responsible for the management of the group capital structure with a focus on securing sufficient liquidity, external funding, returns to shareholders, credit ratings and bank relationship management. As such, the function is responsible for all (material) financing transactions, such as listed debt securities, revolving credit facilities and equity transactions, as well as share buybacks and dividends.

Your assignment

You will support the Corporate Finance function by:

• Supporting the Corporate Finance director and managers in their projects

• Conducting research on developments with regards to: financial markets, peers, financial counterparts and others

• Taking end-to-end  responsibility for reporting tasks, both internally and externally

• Keep work procedures up-to-date and transferable to successors, and initiate improvements

• Preparing all necessary documents for meetings, both with internal stakeholders as well as for banks, rating agencies, etc.

For master students there is a possibility to combine the internship with a graduation thesis if the chosen topic is of sufficient relevance to ASML.

Your profile

You are a final year bachelor student, or master student at university level in the field of Business Economics/Finance. You have an outstanding academic record and have proven affinity with topics that are related to corporate finance. You are motivated to work in a high tech company and have a keen interest to develop your practical skills in a challenging and dynamic business environment. You have strong analytical and communication skills, are capable of working independently with high accuracy and able to handle a high level of responsibility. Your English is excellent, both verbally and in writing.

This is a full-time internship with a minimum duration of 6 months with sufficient flexibility to spend time on university (course)work. The internship will start end October/begin November 2023.

Please note that we can only consider students for this internship who are enrolled at an university during the whole internship period.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.  

Other information

Change the world – one nanometer at a time
Become an intern at a Dutch company that’s a global industry leader. You’ll gain valuable experience in a highly innovative environment – one that sparks your imagination and creativity. In addition to a monthly internship allowance of maximum €600 (plus a possible housing and free public transport), you’ll get practical guidance from experts in the field and the chance to work in and experience a dynamic team environment.

ASML: be part of progress
ASML is a high-tech company headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. What we do is at the heart of all the electronic devices that keep us informed, entertained and connected. Every day, you use electronics that simply wouldn’t exist without our machines.

Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, and computer science and software engineering.

We believe we can always do better. We believe the winning idea can come from anyone. We love what we do – not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.

Students: getting ready for real-world R&D
We’re a global team of about 39,000 people of 140 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.

In such an environment, your colleagues may be sitting next door, or they could be thousands of kilometers away in a different country – or even working for a different company.

An internship at ASML is the opportunity to get to know not only the world of industrial-strength R&D, but yourself – you’ll discover just what excites you most. Will you design a part of the machine, or make sure it gets built to the tightest possible specifications? Will you write software that drives the system to its best performance, or work side-by-side with the engineers of our customers in a fab, optimizing a system to the requirements of the customer?

How will you be part of progress?