Banking Graduate Programme 2025
If you're a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate, join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next. Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative, and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong.
Why the Investment Banking Graduate programme?
Banking provides comprehensive financial advisory, capital raising, financing, and risk management services to corporations, governments, and financial institutions worldwide. We take an integrated approach to client coverage, providing our clients with access to bankers who have industry and geography-specific expertise across all investment banking products.
As a Banking graduate, you will be working with our Coverage and Mergers and Acquisition teams. Here, you’ll come up with the answers to our clients’ most strategic questions. Advising a broad range of corporate clients, you’ll deliver holistic, structured solutions that help our clients deliver on their goals; whether that’s through mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, structured solutions, or risk management.
After several weeks of intensive training to start, you’ll join one of our industry, product, or geographic groups and start working on live deals and business development projects right away. Within small deal teams, you’ll quickly play an important role on a variety of demanding assignments.
You may work on:
* Financial analysis and modelling
* Valuation
* Industry research
* Business evaluation and strategic assessment
* Business and idea generation
* External and internal stakeholder communication
1-2 year targeted, fast-track programme focused on developing specialist technical expertise.
Who we're looking for
To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated and curious with a degree or expected degree – in any area. Ideally, you will have an interest in business and finance, a good work ethic, and be keen to learn and develop your skill set, allowing you to deliver the best products to our clients.
This role is regulated by the FCA.
Barclays will accept applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship to work in the UK.
Purpose of the role
To participate in the day-to-day activities of the investment banking division. Gain broad exposure to different types of clients, transactions, and focus on specialist areas.
Accountabilities
* Collaboration on live deals and client pitches, supporting the team with advising a broad range of corporate clients, delivering holistic, structured solutions to achieve client goals.
* Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
* Participation in training and development programmes to enhance skills and knowledge.
* Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for investment banking.
* Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision.
* Development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support decision-making in investment banking.
* Training and mentoring of junior colleagues.
Analyst Expectations
* Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
* Partner with other functions and business areas.
* Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
* Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
* Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
* Advise and influence decision-making within own area of expertise.
* Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to.
* Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
* Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
* Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience.
* Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
* Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organisation.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
About Barclays
Step into Barclays, a place where individuality is celebrated and innovation meets impact. We’re not just about numbers; we’re about you – your passions, ideas, and curiosity.
How to apply
To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.
Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.
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