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The Directorate General Statistics (DG/S) of the European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking recent graduates or students who have at least completed their first cycle of education (bachelor) at the closing date of this vacancy.
DG/S is responsible for developing, compiling and disseminating the statistics and the related statistical indicators that the ECB needs to conduct its monetary policy and macro-prudential tasks, and that enable the other functions of the ECB (including banking supervision), the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) to be carried out. DG/S also provides statistical support to the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

For this purpose, DG/S cooperates closely with other ECB business areas, the national central banks of the Member States of the European Union (EU), the European Commission (especially Eurostat), European and national supervisory authorities, international organisations, the national statistical institutes of EU Member States and the statistical departments of certain international institutions.
DG/S comprises six divisions:
External Statistics Division
This Division develops, compiles and disseminates the euro area’s external statistics and statistical indicators, in particular the balance of payments, the international investment position and effective exchange rates. It also manages the Centralised Securities Database (CSDB) and the ECB’s centralised market data services.
Macroeconomic Statistics Division
This Division develops, compiles and disseminates the statistics regarding the financial and non-financial sector accounts for the euro area. This includes balance sheets and transactions for all sectors of the economy. It also develops, compiles and/or disseminates statistics on prices and costs, output and demand, the labour market and government finance and, where appropriate, liaises with the primary producers of such data.
Monetary and Financial Statistics Division
This Division develops, compiles and disseminates the balance sheet and interest rate statistics regarding monetary financial institutions (including statistics on monetary aggregates), investment funds, insurance corporations and pension funds and other financial intermediaries. In addition, it maintains a register of reference data on financial intermediaries and compiles and disseminates statistics relating to financial stability, financial integration and financial markets – including a wide range of high frequency market data, yield curves and securities (issues) statistics – as well as statistics regarding the money market and payment systems within the EU Member States. Moreover, work is on-going relating to the collection of daily money market data on secured, unsecured and derivatives markets, as well as granular credit and credit risk data.
Statistics Development/Coordination Division
This Division develops new types of statistics and statistical indicators (current projects include work relating to financial stability, financial derivatives, securities holdings, banknotes and payment cards). It also develops, compiles and disseminates statistics on surveys relating to household finance and consumption and access to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, it contributes to work on European and global statistical standards, including the reconciliation of statistical and supervisory reporting frameworks, and the design of a standardised and integrated data warehouse enabling banks to generate final reports.
Statistical Information Services Division
This Division develops and applies the statistical tools and procedures to collect, produce, manage and disseminate the ECB’s statistics through various channels (databases, website, publications, etc.) and is involved in the development and maintenance of the Statistical Data Warehouse (SDW). It provides IT support to internal and external users of the databases, implements best practices in statistical data exchange and management (e.g. SDMX data model), and harmonises statistical processes. This includes crossdivisional tasks such as the development of an ECB integrated data management enabling the common processing of ECB data such as monetary policy, banking supervision and payment systems data.
Supervisory Statistics Division
This Division develops, collects, compiles and disseminates the datasets and quantitative risk reports for supervisory purposes. This entails the coordination, receipt, quality management and reconciliation of supervisory data of credit institutions. In addition, it produces derived statistics or indicators for the quantitative risk assessment system (RAS) as well as for other statistical and analytical needs in the ECB. In close cooperation with national central banks/national competent authorities, it develops and implements methodologies (e.g. completeness checks, outlier analysis, data clustering, etc.) in order to assess the quality of the supervisory data collected. It contributes to the further development and harmonisation of supervisory information in close collaboration with banking supervision business areas and in cooperation with the European Banking Authority.
Further information on the work of DG/S can be found on the statistics pages of the ECB’s website. For further information on trainee profiles, see the careers pages of the ECB’s website.

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