Wholesale Banking Traineeship - Markets

This is what we offer you

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

Wholesale Banking Traineeship - Markets

At Rabobank, we are dedicated to make a substantial impact on the financial world. We are seeking ambitious and talented individuals to join our Wholesale Banking traineeship track. This is an exceptional opportunity to kickstart your career and become a future leader in corporate finance.

You and your job

In the dynamic environment of Capital Markets in the heart of Rabobank’s Investment Bank, you will be working on complex financing transactions with a high impact for Rabobank’s Dutch and global clients (corporates, traders, sponsors, financial institutions and supra sovereign agencies), advising and assisting them in structuring and arranging (sustainable) Capital Markets products like bonds, syndicated loans, private placements and structured products.

The vibrant environment of Sales & Trading is key in providing our clients access to financial markets. At the dealing room floor, you will be surrounded by energetic colleagues constantly making a difference for our client base on the asset classes of interest rates, FX, commodities and money markets. Dependent on the team you are in, you will focus on corporates, investors, other financial institutions or supranationals. The teams work closely together to achieve the optimal result for client and bank. We discuss and offer our clients solutions that range from simple plain-vanilla transactions to complex hedge strategies, all in order to assure the treasury risks of our clients are well mitigated.

Your self-starting and entrepreneurial attitude is essential and will be an asset to our teams. You are truly interested in banking and financial products, and you like to work in a fast-paced environment. You are able to work on many projects at the same time in close cooperation with others. You build contacts with clients and prospects of the bank and keep very well up to date on market developments. Next to this you are stress resilient, maintain a good internal network, and take the lead in the preparation and execution of pitches or transactions.

If this triggers you, imagine yourself rotating in f.i. these teams:

Capital Markets

• Providing syndicated financing to a broad range of clients in our Loan Capital Markets team.
• Structuring, underwriting and distributing high yield and leveraged loan transactions in our Leveraged Capital Markets team.
• Structuring more complex Capital Market transactions for our clients in our Securitization & Covered Bonds team.
• Helping our clients realize their sustainability ambitions by structuring Green/Social/Sustainability/Sustainability-Linked Bonds and Loans in our Sustainable Capital Markets team.
• Work on both bond and private placement deal origination and transaction execution within in our Corporate DCM team.
• Advise Financial Institutions and Supranationals, Sovereigns & Agencies on the issuance of bonds in our FI & SSA Origination team.

Sales & Trading

• Provide hedge solutions to our corporate client base within Corporate Risk & Treasury Management team.
• Provide hedge solutions to our financial institution client base within one of our FI Sales Trading teams.
• Structuring complex hedge solutions for financial institutions in our FI Solutions team.

Making a difference

On a daily base, you will make a difference by:

Capital Markets

• Structuring, origination and execution of transactions.
• Preparing client visits and pitches.
• Collecting & analyzing client data & generating ideas for transaction opportunities.
• Contribute to the due diligence & legal documentation process.
• Maintaining relationships with various external parties such as clients, lawyers, other banks and with other business units within Rabobank.

Sales & Trading

• Structuring, origination and execution of transactions.
• Assisting in originating new business and pitching hedge solutions to our clients.
• Supporting our clients in their decision-making by providing and discussing market intelligence and updates for the different asset classes.
• Analyse client and market data to come up with trading ideas and hedge solutions.
• Maintain close relationships with our clients such that we hear about what is on client’s mind and are able to assist.
• Managing transactions by involving the relevant internal and external stakeholders, such as lending, legal, compliance and risk department, as well as external advisors, lawyers and other banks.
• Assist traders in running their book and manage their trading position.

Your development as a trainee

In the Rabobank Traineeship, you will work on your personal development for 18 months. This includes personal leadership, relevant skills, and various themes such as sustainability, as well as learning how a bank operates.

You will meet fellow trainees from different departments weekly, and on other days you will work within your own team. Through rotations and assignments, you will get to know a large part of the bank. You will be guided by a Young Talent Manager, who will challenge you to reflect and delve deeper into your development.

Are you ready to go beyond expectations in the world of Wholesale Banking and become the best version of yourself? This is your chance.

You and your talent

Customer focus, teamwork, result orientation and having the right pro-active mind set are clearly essential for the role of Analyst in Markets. In addition, it's important that you recognize yourself in the traits below:

• Master’s degree (preferably in Finance, Business, Economics, Econometrics or Law).
• Passionate and interested in wholesale banking.
• Excellent analytical and commercial skills.
• Ability to work in a fast pace environment and deliver results within project timelines;
• Ambitious and result oriented.
• Good communication skills in English (written and verbal).