Syndicate and Portfolio Management Graduate Programme

About the Graduate Programme

This is a two-year programme designed to provide hands-on experience, build lasting relationships, and deepen your understanding of clients, markets, and the wider business. You will contribute to meaningful work from day one and receive support to build a successful long-term career.

What you’ll gain:

• Real impact: Take ownership of meaningful work that contributes to business outcomes.
• Future-ready capabilities: Build the technical, commercial, and professional skills needed to succeed.
• Global collaboration: Work with colleagues and clients across markets, products, and functions.
• Continuous growth: Benefit from structured development, mentoring, and practical experience.

Where you could work

You’ll be placed into one of the following teams:

• Credit Portfolio Analytics: Manages the Bank's financial resources and credit portfolio, balancing risk and returns to support sustainable growth and make effective use of capital and funding.
• Credit Portfolio Management: Provides data-driven analysis and insights to support informed decision-making, helping the Bank understand its clients, credit portfolio, and identify opportunities to improve performance and returns.
• Syndicate and Financing Risk: Supports the structuring, pricing, risk management, and distribution of loans and bonds, helping the Bank provide financing to clients while effectively managing risk and returns.

Skills we’re looking for

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds. We’re looking for people who can:

• Take ownership and show initiative when tackling challenges.
• Think critically and solve problems using logic, analysis, and sound judgement.
• Learn quickly and stay curious, seeking opportunities to grow and develop.
• Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others.
• Adapt and perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate commercial curiosity and an interest in clients, markets, and global trends.

For technical roles, we particularly value backgrounds in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics.

Eligibility

• You must be in your final year of study and graduating by July 2027.
• You must have the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.

You can only submit one application within a six-month period.

Key Dates

• Assessment Centres: October 2026 onwards
• Start Date: July 2027

What we offer

• Competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Generous time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum), and volunteering leave (3 days), combined with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday to provide at least 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders, and self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture with opportunities to reskill and upskill, and access to physical, virtual, and digital learning.
• Inclusion in a values-driven organisation that embraces and celebrates diversity.