Rabobank Traineeship Wholesale Banking - Trading & Treasury

At Rabobank, we are dedicated to making 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

Are you fascinated by the fast-paced world of financial markets? Do you thrive on solving complex problems, making data-driven decisions, and thinking strategically under pressure? Then this is your launchpad. Join our Rabobank Traineeship Wholesale Banking track with a focus on Trading and Treasury.

The Treasury and Trading departments work closely together, and you will become part of high-impact teams that sit at the heart of our organization’s financial engine. From day one, you’ll work alongside seasoned professionals, gain hands-on experience in trading and liquidity management, and build the skills to become a future leader in finance.

The Trading team acts as market maker and provides competitive pricing and liquidity to clients. This means that Trading warehouses risk or lays-off risk directly in the market. When direct lay-off is not suitable, risk positions that have been acquired from clients (‘risk on’) can either be redistributed to other clients (‘risk off’) or managed through risk transformation (‘hedging’). Additionally, Trading manages risk positions within appropriate risk limits and takes advantage of the yield curve and curve movements. The market positions are based on extensive fundamental and technical market analysis, comprehensive market research, and current market behaviour.

Treasury plays a key role in managing the bank’s own interest rate, liquidity, and FX-risk positions that have a significant impact on its risk profile and results. Our value chain ranges from taking in raw data and modelling to balance sheet steering and execution of transactions in financial markets.

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 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.

Making a difference

If this triggers you, imagine yourself rotating in these teams and making a difference by:

• Trading
  • Structuring, origination and execution of transactions.
  • Prepare and deliver relevant market intelligence, trends, dynamics, and trading strategies to clients.
  • Analyse client and market data to come up with trading ideas and hedge solutions.
  • Assist traders in running their book and manage their trading position.
  • Engaging in the day-to-day initiation with other traders and Sales.
• Treasury
  • Learn about financial markets, (derivative) products and balance sheet dynamics.
  • Analysing data and risk positions for steering and hedging purposes.
  • Support origination and execution of transactions.

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 mindset 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).
• A maximum of 2 years work experience.
• Passionate and interested in wholesale banking.
• Excellent analytical and commercial skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver results within project timelines.
• Ambitious and result oriented.
• Good communication skills in English (written and verbal).

This is what we offer you

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 3,314 and EUR 4,733 (scale 07) for a 40-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.