Graduate Programme Overview 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.
Investment Banking at Barclays Barclays is one of the world's top-tier investment banks. We are one of the only non-US, full-service rivals to the biggest US investment banks. And being headquartered in Europe gives us a unique advantage. We think and act differently. From Hong Kong to Houston, and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, everyone at Barclays enjoys a real sense of purpose, because they work for a business that fosters innovation, champions sustainability, and deploys finance responsibly for the common good and the long term.
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. Language requirements: fluent in English and Spanish.
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 deemed as a Controlled Function role under the Central Bank of Ireland Fitness and Probity Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.
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, client pitches, support the team with advising on a broad range of corporate clients, delivering holistic, structured solutions to deliver on 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, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions.
Development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making in investment banking. Understand how businesses work and learn from experts in the industry.
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. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
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 and will be guided by precedents.
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 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.
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