This was a completely new area of the bank for me where I would be starting from scratch, with little direct experience and no authority in this domain.
Although I was flattered and excited, it was also a little daunting. “Just as I began to feel it was time to move on again, I was approached for a role in the Structured Export Finance (SEF) department. Although I didn’t have any real experience in change management, I was given the opportunity to go ahead and threw myself into it.” Starting from zero I already had a plan for a role switch: I was keen to reshape a team that I‘d been working with and thought would clearly benefit from some change. At ING Amsterdam I initially joined a team responsible for clients in North America, but when I got pregnant I didn’t want to travel so much anymore. “This was the start of some amazing opportunities within ING. A little while later, an opportunity arose for a transfer to Amsterdam.
After a period of living in France, she returned to New York and worked for another Nordic bank before being offered a job at ING Wholesale Banking in Brussels. That comes in handy nowadays, because her current team in Structured Export Finance has contact with organisations right around the world.Īnna’s career in finance started at Nordea Bank in New York after she graduated from university. Ever since she was young, Anna Rauhala – who’s originally from Finland - has been interested in other countries and cultures.
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