Global Data Summer Internship 2012- London recruitment

The Role

We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join the Global Data summer internship programme 2012. The Global Data department provides real time market data which is used by our clients to make informed investment decisions.

As a summer intern your main responsibilities will be to update, maintain and process data for a designated market area. We are looking to recruit into a range of projects or data teams including Equities, Fixed Income, Credit Research and other financial securities.

For this internship we are looking for dedicated, self starting candidates with a passion for the financial markets that with extensive training and development will help drive our product forward.

Responsibilities

- Sourcing and qualifying relevant data
- Updating and processing data onto the Bloomberg database in a timely manner
- Maintaining and enhancing the existing database
- Responding to client queries regarding the data within an assigned market

Qualifications:

- Fluency in a second European language is essential
- Passion for working in the financial markets
- Previous Internship / work experience is beneficial
- A self-starter; proven ability to take ownership initiative of projects
- Excellent communication and customer service skills
- Experience of processing data or using Excel is beneficial

Internship commences 25th June 2012 for 10 weeks.

The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential
decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information,
people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through
innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional
service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers
globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging
technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and
information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law,
Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News,
delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg
Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and
multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York,
Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.