Erste Group

Founded in 1819 as “Erste österreichische Spar-Casse“, the Erste Group planned to get listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 1997 to expand its retail business to the CEE growth market. Due to numerous corporate acquisitions and organic growth, the Erste Group was able to become one of the largest financial services providers in Eastern Europe in view of total assets and the number of customers: The latter increased from 600,000 to about 15.8 million in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia. In its role as major employer, the Erste Group offers attractive positions to about 46,600 employees. As an attractive employer, Erste Group offers interesting career opportunities in an international environment. (Header © Christian Wind)