Banking Graduate Programme

Join us as a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate and unlock a world of opportunities with carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. With comprehensive training and support, we 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 everyone. 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 clients with access to bankers who have industry and geography-specific expertise across all investment banking products.

As a Banking graduate, you will work with our Coverage and Mergers and Acquisition teams, answering clients' most strategic questions. You will advise a broad range of corporate clients, delivering holistic, structured solutions to help our clients meet their goals through mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, structured solutions, or risk management.

After several weeks of intensive training, 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 in various 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, recognized as a non-US, full-service rival to the biggest US investment banks, offering a unique advantage with European headquarters. We think and act differently. From Hong Kong to Houston, and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, everyone at Barclays has a real sense of purpose, working for a business that fosters innovation, champions sustainability, and deploys finance responsibly for the common good and 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. Fluent English and Dutch are desirable. Ideally, you will have an interest in business and finance, a good work ethic, and the desire to learn and develop your skillset, allowing you to deliver the best products to our clients.

This role is deemed 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 meet internal company benchmarks.

Purpose of the Role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the investment banking division, gaining broad exposure to different types of clients and transactions while focusing on specialist areas.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate on live deals, client pitches, and support the team in advising corporate clients, delivering structured solutions to meet client goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Participate in training and development programmes to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Identify opportunities, develop business cases, and manage the deployment and launch of new products and services for investment banking.
• Manage client relationships and provide customer service support.
• Develop and implement financial models and strategies for decision-making in investment banking.
• Train and mentor junior colleagues.

Analyst Expectations

• Impact the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Advise and influence decision-making within your area of expertise.
• Take ownership for risk management and strengthening controls in your work.
• Understanding of how sub-function integrates with the function, alongside knowledge of the organisation's products, services, and processes.
• Resolve problems by identifying solutions and guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members, communicating complex information.
• Build a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organisation.