Internship: Mergers & Acquisitions

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Job Description

Start date: March 2025

Duration: 6 months

Location: Amsterdam (3 days in the Amsterdam office and 2 days remote per week)

Weekly availability: 40 hours

In this role, you have the opportunity to:

Assist in advising Philips’ businesses on their acquisition and divestiture programs, thereby advancing Philips’ transformation journey as a global leader in Health Technology. The position provides a unique opportunity to experience M&A from a corporate value perspective within a very experienced M&A team, with a global scope. You will be working with large teams from businesses throughout Philips and operating independently, whilst dealing with dynamic and oftentimes challenging process timelines. Responsibilities rapidly increase for those who perform well.

Your responsibilities:

• Assisting the M&A deal execution process from inception to closing, including valuation and financial analyses (DCF and multiples), assisting/ managing due diligence processes, project management, drafting of process materials

• Preparing presentations for the Executive Board, with and alongside people from Philips’ Business Groups and Markets

• Performing company research and industry benchmarking using various databases (e.g. Capital IQ, Pitchbook)

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• An excellent academic track record (preferably in Economics, Finance, or Econometrics)

• A genuine interest in corporate finance, valuation, and financial markets

• Current enrollment in a MSc program or last year of a bachelor program. You must be enrolled in a university during the internship period.

• Highly analytical mindset and a strong professional drive

• Strong and open-minded team player who can work with various nationalities and cultures

• Modelling experience in Excel and neat PowerPoint skills

• Fluency in written/spoken English (Dutch is not required)

• Relevant financial internship experience is preferred

In return, we offer you

• A great opportunity to gain experience within a high-performing team, which cooperates closely and there will be many learning and development opportunities.

  Next to that, we are offering a decent internship package:

  • Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on educational level and if you would need to relocate to The Netherlands. If you will perform a part-time internship you will receive the allowance pro-rata.

  • Housing compensation, in case of relocating to the vicinity of the office, €300,- net if location is in the vicinity of Amsterdam, €255,- net for all other Philips locations. You need to provide a rental contract of the land lord, and your normal home-work travel distance need to be more than 50 km or travel time (one way trip) need to be more than 1.5 hours.

  • Travel compensation, if you are not eligible for a free public transport card; you will receive max. €192,- net.

  • Paid holidays per internship term.

  • The opportunity to buy Philips equipment at our Philips shop.

  How we work together
  We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
  Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
  Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an onsite role.

  IMPORTANT:

  Part of our selection procedure is a HireVue online interview recording. We are not able to share the outcome of this HireVue interview but will use this as extra selection criteria.

  In order to be considered, you have to be registered as a student during the entire internship period. Formal documentation will be requested. Students from outside the EU enrolled at a Dutch university need to fill in a NUFFIC agreement – which needs to be signed by the student and the university.

  Please note that the contents of our regular internship assignments are not suitable for professionals (and/or MBA students) with professional work experience.

  
  About Philips
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  If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.