Business Development / AI Project Management Internship – Private Banking – September 2026

Rothschild & Co · Paris

$15k - $35k

Full-Time

Job description

Rothschild & Co

Rothschild & Co is a leading international financial services group, family-controlled for seven generations and at the center of financial markets for more than 200 years. Our expertise, know-how, and global network enable us to offer a distinctive perspective that benefits our clients’ businesses and wealth, as well as our stakeholders, while respecting our planet. Our 4,200 financial advisory specialists work on the ground in more than 40 countries and provide a unique international perspective through four leading businesses: Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management, and Five Arrows. As a family group founded on human relationships, we place particular importance on recruiting and developing our employees so they can thrive in their careers.

About Rothschild & Co Martin Maurel

Rothschild & Co Martin Maurel was formed in 2017 through the merger of two independent family-owned private banks founded and run by the Rothschild and Maurel families, which have maintained close ties for three generations. It benefits from the international backing of the Rothschild & Co Group and strong regional roots, as well as the two families’ involvement in strategic leadership and significant decisions. We are independent entrepreneurs: our family model and entrepreneurial spirit enable us to build lasting, close relationships with our clients. This distinctive family-banking heritage supports the rare quality of relationships that earns clients’ trust, often across generations. We are responsible for protecting and growing their assets and safeguarding their investments with the confidentiality this business requires. Our experienced bankers build lasting relationships of trust with each client every day.

Context

As part of its transformation and innovation initiatives, Rothschild & Co Martin Maurel is seeking an intern to contribute to cross-functional projects that improve working methods, data use, and operational efficiency.

Main responsibilities

Working with all Private Banking teams in France, Belgium, Monaco, and Luxembourg, you will:

  • Help create commercial proposals for prospects and clients.
  • Help scope and research qualified targets based on defined criteria and improve tracking.

More specifically, assignments will focus on improving existing processes:

  1. Develop AI use cases
  • Identify and analyze processes that AI could optimize.
  • Help design, test, and improve AI assistants for front-office teams.
  • Structure prompts, knowledge bases, and automation workflows.
  • Participate in operational integration of generative AI solutions.
  1. Automate and optimize processes
  • Develop tools that facilitate information collection, analysis, and presentation.
  • Help improve Excel, VBA, Power BI, or Python tools used by teams.
  • Help standardize and improve the reliability of recurring deliverables.
  1. Project management and user support
  • Participate in scoping, documentation, and tracking of AI projects.
  • Gather user needs and write functional specifications.
  • Help teams adopt new tools.
  • Track AI innovations and their applications in financial services.

Candidate profile

  • Student at an engineering school, business school specializing in Data/AI, or university, at Bac+4/Bac+5 level.
  • Strong interest in AI and new developments, automation, and innovation.
  • Good command of Excel; VBA is an advantage.
  • Knowledge of Python, Power BI, automation, or generative AI tools is valued.
  • Interest in financial markets, wealth management, and private banking.
  • Rigor, analytical mindset, independence, and service orientation.
  • Very good communication skills, including strong French writing and ideally English.

Why join the team?

  • Take part in practical AI projects with major operational impact in a demanding environment.
  • Work directly with Business Development, Financial Management, and Wealth Engineering teams.
  • Develop a cross-functional view of private-banking business.
  • Benefit from autonomy and exposure to strategic topics.
  • Help transform how a team at the heart of the relationship between private bankers and business experts works.

One reason for the long-term success of our business is the importance we place on being principled. It is this belief that drives both the way we work with our clients and the way we hire, manage and develop our people—and we look for the same qualities from them in return. Our teams reflect the diverse needs of our clients, businesses and the markets we operate in around the world. We value, and seek to maintain, an eclectic mix of skills and backgrounds—encouraging everyone to come together to share their perspectives for the good of each other, the business and our clients.

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