Student Internship in M&A (from September 2018, 12 months) in Basel

At Roche, we believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are brave in both decision and action, we believe that good business means a better world.

The Diagnostic M&A group, located in Basel, is an integral component of Global Business Development organization, which is a collaborative team of self-motivated professionals that passionately identifies brilliant ideas, novel opportunities and compelling business concepts to generate objective and long-term business value to sustain the leadership of the Diagnostics Division. The M&A group is specifically responsible for identifying, evaluating, and executing acquisition and alliance opportunities to drive inorganic growth for the Diagnostics Division.

Your main responsibilities may include:

• Provide support to Head M&A in managing team meetings, and project tracking
• Lead and support various departmental wide projects such as record management, process and database setup as well as to build and administer central repository for M&A deals
• Support M&A team in company, market and competitive research for target companies
• Deliver various deal support, such as deal updates, summary and report, due diligence management, financial models, build and track M&A watch list

Further take away opportunities that we offer for our interns:

• Many learning and training opportunities that will help improve your personal development and can significantly influence your own career

• Learn to move in a global company, to network and to collaborate with stakeholder groups

• Be a member of our Interns Network and get to experience the culture of Basel in the heart of Europe

We are keen to discover talents who are passionate about learning and show great curiosity in discovering new things. At the Roche Headquarter site in Basel/Kaiseraugst, employees from over 90 countries are doing now what our patients need next. We contribute our share towards achieving our mission and to make our vision of personalized healthcare happen. We offer you a multicultural workplace in a modern environment, which at the same time requires you to be open-minded and adaptable. You provide us with examples that prove your ability to cultivate collaborations with different partners. This also means that you continuously contrast your results with others and acknowledge the benefit of teamwork and communications. As an intern you will be a member of the Roche Interns Network that offers you chances to connect, have fun and get to know Basel, in the heart of Europe.

Who you are

You are a student in the final year of your Bachelor or Master degree, preferably in finance and ideally with knowledge or experience in market & equity research. As a high-energy individual your wish is to excel and succeed. You should have had some exposure and experience with making executive presentation and understanding of company financials.

• Strong MS Office skills in particular PowerPoint and Excel
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Hands-on, fast and highly results driven you focus on getting things done and put a lot of effort into driving projects to completion
• Knowledge of In-Vitro-Diagnostics preferred
• Well-organized and self-disciplined
• Fluent in English, other languages are a plus

The preferred start date of the internship is September 2018. Please clearly indicate your preferred starting date of internship on your motivation letter. Applications need to include a CV and a motivation letter both merged in one PDF document.

Due to regulations non-EU/EFTA citizens must provide a certificate from the university stating that an internship is a mandatory part of their degree, as part of the application documents.

For questions please call the Recruiting Team Switzerland: +41 61 682 25 50