How to leverage my current internship

Hi,

I'm undergrad at a french busines school (Top 6) and I am currently doing an internship during my gap-year.

This is my second one and after a sales/bizdev role in the payment industry I decided I wanted a more finance focused role to get my foot in the door and I'm not sure how I will able to leverage this for future jobs/internships.

I would say it's corporate banking since we don't deal with granny but it's not a really prestigous firm (4th bank in France).

Basically I do financial analysis all day to make sure our clients are eligible for financing, leases-purchases, overdraft etc.. Only for companies that achieve a turnover between 1.5M€ and 150M€. So as and Intern I follow the bankers that take care of the day-to-day life of these companies. I follow them in meetings and basically do the maths and grunt work while they focus on the commercial aspect of the relationship. 

I also sometimes have the opportunity to work on LBO's or OBO's but the comitee decided not to follow on the last project.

I feel like i'm doing glorified accounting and tbh i'm okay with it I come from a long way and I already happy to work in corporate finance but I was wondering what were my hypotethical options after an intership like that. I'm tempted to label myself as a credit analyst on my CV but I'm not sure, the problem is I don't find a precise equivalent to my job in the "international" place and I might have to write a CV in english.

For more context my job title in french is: Chargé d'affaire 

What do you think ?

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