Banks & insurance short portraits

April 15, 2015

Beatrice Eicke, trainee, Allianz

Beatrice Eicke still looks over the shoulders of IT managers as an assistant. As an IT trainee, the 26-year-old is aiming for a career as a young manager at Allianz in Munich. During the 18-month training, which is divided into orientation, project and assistance phases as well as an elective station in IT, there is a lot of new things to learn every day. Eicke, who studied international information management, business administration and psychology, brings the IT basics with her; She is now acquiring insurance knowledge. She will soon be leading IT projects. The challenge: Bringing people together, showing empathy and keeping everything in perspective.

Liana Valeeva, working student, Deutsche Rückversicherung AG

Be it storms, hail or floods – Liana Valeeva deals with major risks as a working student in the central underwriting management of Deutsche Rückversicherung AG in Düsseldorf. The 27-year-old supports the actuarial team there, which works together with geologists and meteorologists to analyze and assess damage from natural disasters. Necessary for this: knowledge of probability theory, statistics, programming – and Excel. The business mathematics student will soon be submitting her master's thesis. Her career goal: risk management for an insurance company, where she can put mathematics into practice.

Maria Knodt, Associate, Capco

Maria Knodt, associate at the management consultancy Capco in Frankfurt am Main, advises banks on risk assessment. Your job: Analyze customer problems, create benchmarking and specialist concepts and calculate business models. The exciting thing is that Knodt is actively shaping the industry, including access to the board: When she presents ideas there, she says “attention to details” – everything has to be right. After earning bachelor's degrees in physics and business administration, Knodt decided to go into consulting in order to experience many companies in the financial sector - a "high learning curve and variety" are guaranteed.

Jan Steuter, Trainee, GLS Bank

“Contact with customers is what defines the work,” says Jan Steuter. As a trainee at GLS Bank, the 29-year-old is learning how to advise corporate customers and non-profit organizations on loans. The first stop of the 18-month training was Berlin, where he supported educational institutions, for example, in financing daycare centers from the inquiry to the loan disbursement. While studying business administration, Steuter “didn’t see himself in a bank”; An internship at the bank, which works according to social-ecological principles, led to a change in thinking. “Here I can offer something that I stand behind unconditionally,” he says today.

Ursula Marschall, senior physician, BARMER GEK

Ursula Maschall, senior physician at the health insurance company BARMER GEK, describes herself as a “mediator between the worlds”. Your job: to medically assess innovations. If, for example, it is a question of whether a computer game is useful for treating cross-eyed children, then their expertise is required. The strategist advises on contracts, gives lectures and conducts medical care research. After working as a doctor in a hospital for 15 years, the anesthetist came to management through positions in the medical service center, in consulting and studying health economics part-time. Here she appreciates the opportunity to “actually change something.”

Beatrice Eicke, Trainee, Allianz Beatrice Eicke still looks over the shoulders of IT managers as an assistant. As an IT trainee, the 26-year-old is aiming for a career as a young manager at Allianz in Munich. During the 18-month training, which is divided into orientation, project and assistance phases as well as an elective station in IT, there are a lot of new things to learn every day

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