The intern will support the SI Research team in enhancing the quantitative assessment of financially material sustainability factors and their impact on company valuation and financial resilience.

The project may include:

• Financial materiality and business value drivers: Analyze how financially material sustainability factors affect revenue growth, operating costs, profitability, capital expenditure (CapEx), return on invested capital (ROIC), free cash flow (FCF) and other relevant business value drivers.

• Historical financial benchmarking: Develop sector- and company-level datasets combining historical sustainability indicators with financial performance metrics to identify trends, relationships and differences across peer groups.

• Quantitative modeling and statistical analysis: Apply econometric and statistical techniques, such as regression analysis, panel-data modeling, time-series analysis and sensitivity testing, to investigate relationships between sustainability factors and financial outcomes.

• Corporate resilience analysis: Explore how sustainability-related characteristics, including operational efficiency, supply-chain diversification, governance and risk management, influence financial stability and performance during periods of market stress or external disruption.

• Financial impact estimation: Investigate approaches to translating sustainability-related risks and opportunities into financially relevant assumptions for revenue, margins, CapEx, cash flow and company valuation.

• AI-driven data analytics: Explore the use of AI tools, including AI agents and automated data extraction, to identify, collect, structure and validate new sustainability and financial data points.

• Research validation and communication: Assess data quality and methodological limitations, evaluate the robustness of findings, and communicate results through clear analytical reports and visualizations.

The precise research scope will be defined with the supervising researcher, focusing on selected sustainability factors, sectors and financial indicators to deliver a practical and meaningful outcome within the internship period.

The intern will report to a senior SI researcher and collaborate with colleagues across Robeco's SI Centre of Expertise and investment teams, contributing to the development of research methodologies that can support investment analysis

• We are interested in working with final stage MSc students from a broad range of studies from environmental science, sociology, philosophy, or biology to business administration and finance. 

• Research, analysis, and writing skills for company profiling, with an ability to discern broad/vague information; strong and clear communication skills; and an ability to work comfortably within a diverse environment. 

• Familiarity with employing AI-tools, including prompt design, would be an advantage.

• Availability to work full time (40h/w) for a period of 4-6 months.  

• All the internship vacancies at Robeco in Rotterdam are open only to students enrolled at a university during the entire duration of their internship. Our interns must also be eligible for a residence permit to do an internship in the Netherlands. This means we can recruit EU citizens studying at a global university or non-EU citizens studying at a Dutch university. 
  

You can apply by sending your application to si_internships@robeco.nl

We will consider applications until the above mentioned deadline to apply.

Make sure to include the following information in your application:

• 2 minutes motivation video and/or a one-page motivation letter;

• Your CV mentioning date until you are enrolled at university;

• Writing sample that helps us assess your writing and research skills on an environmental-related topic.

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.