Rfp Analyst Intern

**AXA Investment Managers**

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is an active, long-term, global multi-asset investor with assets committed to finding the most efficient and sustainable sources of return across global markets, from equities to bonds, real estate to other alternative asset classes. We believe that responsible investment makes a positive impact on society that is why we incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into our investment decisions and product range. With over €858 billion of assets and over 2,600 people operating around the world out of 18 investment centers. AXA IM is a privately-owned subsidiary of the AXA Group, a global leader in financial protection and wealth management. We enjoy the backing of one of the world's largest players in the financial protection industry.

**DISCOVER your opportunity**:
**The Core RFP Team**

RFP stands for Request For Proposal, an essential dimension of clients and prospects approach. RFP encompasses the entire tendering process (questionnaires, documents, presentations, etc.) that asset managers prepare in order to attract new client mandates.

The Core RFP team is based in Paris and London and is part of the AXA IM Core investment platform managing liquid assets, namely Fixed Income, Equity and Multi Asset portfolios.

The Core RFP team covers both prospective institutional and distribution clients; from answering of the clients' questionnaire to preparing the pitch presentations for the final 'beauty contest'. The team's mission thereby is to deliver high quality, winning RFPs within the strict client deadlines. Our proposals cover a diverse range of liquid products and strategies including highly tailored and innovative institutional solutions taking into account responsible investment considerations, from integrated to impact products.

Being part of the Core RFP team involves a close working relationship with portfolio management and sales teams, as well as with all other company's stakeholders (risk, operations, etc.) in a real project management mode.

As the team covers Europe, the United States and Asia, it presents an excellent opportunity to gain exposure and insight to the internal framework of one of Europe's largest asset managers and to gain a wealth of knowledge about the products we manage and the markets we operate in.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Act as a key contributor in the capital raising process, both for mandates and pooled funds, mainly for major institutional investors.
- Overall responsibility for the production (from the first draft to the final proposal to the client) and process coordination of RFPs/Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQ), etc.
- Creation of accurate, compelling and client-focused RFP responses aiming to present our company and our investment solutions
- Development of strong, effective, two-way working relationships with key stakeholders, including Institutional Sales teams and Portfolio Managers globally.
- Gaining a broad knowledge of liquid investments (Equity, Fixed Income and Multi Assets products).
- Contact with many business partners who will help in providing data and answering questions (e.g., Sales teams, Portfolio Managers, Responsible Investment experts, Investment Specialist team, Trading and other departments)
- Rigorous adherence to review, compliance and record-keeping procedures (RFP Reporting)

**Your Profile**

**Share your unique experience**:
**Qualifications, Experience/Skills and Key Competencies**

**Education / Qualifications**
- Degree in Finance or Business Management.

**Experience**
- Prior experience working in the financial markets industry is a plus
- **Excellent level of French **plus English (another language can be a plus)

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Excellent writing skills: enjoys writing and transforming technical descriptions into marketing documents, easy to read for non-specialists, with a strong emphasis on key selling points
- Strong analytical skills and products knowledge
- ability to understand and describe investment processes and financial solutions in detail
- client focused
- ability to challenge experts (Sales, Product Specialists, etc.)
- Good project management skills

**Key Competencies**
- Rigorous, curious, sense of detail and well-organised
- Team player: willingness to share know-how and to learn from others
- Leadership/entrepreneurial spirit to take full responsibility for delivering the documents required, ability to gather information from different departments
- Enjoys working in an international environment
- Works well under pressure, respect of tight deadlines
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office tools

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**About AXA**

The AXA Group is a global leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 105 million customers in 62 countries.

We protect and advise our clients at every stage of their lives, offering products and services that meet their needs in the areas of insurance, personal