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 UK Corporate Banking Graduate programme?
The Barclays UK Corporate bank oversees senior corporate coverage within the bank's home market. This unit strategically collaborates with major corporate clients in the UK to address their banking requirements. What distinguishes us is our industry-specialised approach, ensuring all our staff are experts within our chosen markets. With regional offices providing nationwide coverage, we can effectively assist and engage with all UK corporations, utilising a localised relationship model.
On the Graduate programme, you will gain foundational banking knowledge, teaching you about a bank's role in the UK economy. You will help aid strategic clients with diverse needs, from everyday banking to intricate mergers, acquisitions, and broader areas like Environmental, Social and Governance planning. As a UK Corporate graduate, you'll learn vital relationship and technical skills for a banking career. Our aim is to shape graduates into future Relationship Directors and technical experts representing Barclays Corporate bank. Throughout your tenure, you will engage with various banking divisions, mastering the skills required for exceptional Corporate banking. You'll tackle complex corporate transactions, aiding clients in achieving growth and success.
Programme Structure
2-year rotational programme designed to give you depth and breadth of experience.
UK Corporate Banking
UK Corporate Bank supports large and medium Corporate clients within the UK, comprising specialist businesses each of which are market leaders in the UK market; Large Corporate, Medium Corporate, Public Sector, and Real Estate. Supporting the entire range of clients’ needs from day-to-day banking through to complex corporate financing arrangements. As a UK Corporate banking colleague, you will be responsible for supporting your clients in gaining access to all of Barclays group solutions including Barclaycard and Personal Banking.
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. Ideally, you'll be interested in the UK corporate marketplace and have analytical skills. You'll have some experience translating data and be a good communicator. We value resourcefulness, teamwork, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit, all of which might be showcased through your involvement in extracurricular activities.
Barclays will require applicants for this position to have legal right to work in the UK.
Working in Glasgow
Barclays Glasgow campus is a world-class, unconventional working environment with incredible facilities in an easy-to-reach central location. There are a huge variety of working, meeting, and thinking spaces and a warm, friendly, and open feel across the campus. It's a place where people enjoy spending time. A place for eating, socialising, and entertaining, as well as working. A place with a buzz about it that people will look forward to being for two or more days a week.
Purpose of the role
To participate in the day-to-day activities of the UK corporate banking division providing insights and expertise that help senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.
Accountabilities
Analyst Expectations
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.