Our work community
Total number of employees: 244
Total number of permanent employees: 229
Managers (permanent): 14 women and 28 men
Average length of employment: 11.09 years
Average number of training hours per employee: 12.4
Exit turnover rate: 7.0%
Nationalities: 33
Our values
Competence
- We aim for a high level of professionalism and efficiency.
- We are forward-looking and proactive.
- We keep up-to-date with changes in the business environment and take responsibility for our own professional development.
Commitment
- We are transparent in our actions and apply good governance.
- We care about how we do business and the impact our actions and behaviour have on people, society and the environment.
Cooperation
- We respect diversity and the principles of equality.
- We support each other by sharing information, knowledge, skills and experiences.
- We cooperate with our customers on the basis of sound banking principles, creating mutual value.
- We encourage constructive discussions to reach common goals.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
For NIB, a sustainable workplace means that we trust and respect each other. We are committed to promoting fair and equal treatment of all our employees, and aim for a balanced diversity among our staff. We support inclusion and strive to prevent discrimination and harassment. The foundation of these values are set out in NIB’s Code of Conduct, our Staff Regulations and other staff-related documents.
We are taking concrete actions on these matters, and NIB has a Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Plan in place. For the period of 2025–2027, the Plan focuses on a diversified workforce, strengthening equality and fairness around compensation, and fostering an inclusive and flexible workplace culture.
Diversity
What diversity means to us:
We define diversity as the involvement of people from a wide range of different backgrounds in our work community. Diversity incorporates all elements that make an individual unique. We aim for diversity among our employees and within our teams with respect to gender, age, nationality, ethnic origin, social background, etc. For us, diversity is about valuing, respecting and acknowledging the differences between people, and seeing those differences as an asset for NIB.
Equality
What equality means to us:
For us, equality means that we commit to the fair treatment of all our employees. Equality is based on the belief that we respect the worth of each individual and that we all should have opportunities for professional growth and for utilising our talents, irrespective of our personal characteristics or beliefs.
Inclusion
What inclusion means to us:
Inclusion means that everyone at NIB feels appreciated as an individual and is able to make a meaningful contribution to their work. We foster a work environment that welcomes all employees into our community, and where everyone feels valued and supported. Harassment is not tolerated at NIB, and we strive to provide protection to individuals that face concerns in these matters.
What matters to us
Our employees are one of our most important assets. Without highly skilled personnel, we cannot reach our targets and fulfil the Bank’s mission. This was also the message from our external stakeholders, who consider NIB’s professional staff to be one of the Bank’s strengths.
We regularly conduct work engagement surveys among our staff. The purpose is to collect feedback on the work environment, management and well-being at work.
The most recent survey showed that NIB’s employees value each other’s commitment and team spirit, as well as supervisory work. Our staff also stated that they feel a sense of purpose working for a bank with a sustainability mandate.
The work engagement survey is also one of the pillars of our materiality process.
Wellbeing, health and safety at work
We promote wellbeing, health and safety in our working environment. NIB offers extensive health and medical care for its staff. NIB has an Occupational Health Care Action Plan and occupational healthcare service provider.
Our staff are granted pregnancy, parental and childcare leave according to Finnish legislation and provisions of Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. Read more here. Once parents’ right to parental leave has ended, parents can choose either municipal or private day care for their child or child home care allowance. All children under school age are entitled to early childhood education and care.
Employee wellbeing, mental health and occupational safety are also a core aspect of NIB’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Bank’s handling of health and safety during the pandemic received an excellent scoring in the most recent work engagement survey. Our actions include provisions for remote working and ergonomic services at home. Our aim is to build a positive and safe working environment under changing conditions.
Our initiatives and cooperations
Training and development
We value our employees’ dedication to continuously develop their skills. NIB offers various training opportunities to support our people’s professional growth and to enhance their ability to address future work challenges and changes in the way we work.
In addition, seminars are arranged periodically for the whole staff on topics such as financial market developments, collateral, bonds and bond markets, emissions trading schemes, gender aspects, and IT development.
The average number of training hours per employee was 12.4 in 2023.
Career development
NIB encourages individual career planning for its staff. For this purpose, personal appraisal and development discussions between supervisors and employees are held at least twice a year.
NIB offers job rotation possibilities across different departments within the Bank to support career development.
For employees who have been working at the Bank for several years, NIB provides the opportunity to participate in a career counselling programme. The programme gives employees the chance to reflect on their career development, strengths and weaknesses as well as their self-leadership skills.
Another initiative that is currently in development will focus on young professionals at NIB. The programme will aim to provide tools relevant for the finance industry, and to support career development and networking.
Traineeships at NIB
NIB offers traineeship programmes for young professionals, usually students or recent graduates. Every year, the Bank welcomes a number of trainees to support its different units in their daily tasks.
The traineeship periods vary, but typically start around the summer. As with other regular positions at NIB, the Bank helps international candidates with relocation and assists in finding suitable accommodation.