In Risk, our role is to make sure we’re doing the right thing as an organisation, for our people and our customers. Risk management allows us to strike a balance between taking risks and reducing them.
It’s our responsibility to manage risk across the bank, ensuring we have the right culture, strategy and rules in place. We also manage interactions with key regulators, providing trusted advice to the colleagues who are serving our customers.
A world-class industry placementOur 12-month Risk internship has been designed to both prepare you for working life and challenge you at the same time.
We welcome – and encourage – applications from a diverse range of degree disciplines, including arts, legal, STEM, quantitative, or other fields
At the end of your 12 months, we’ll assess you on what you’ve delivered. Complete this successfully and you could be offered a place on our Risk graduate programme, where you can carry the skills you’ve learnt forward and take the next step in your career.
Over the course of this 12-month placement, you can look forward to:
- Learning about our culture, values, and goals
- Seeing first-hand how we work together as one bank to deliver an outstanding service for our customers
- Building your skills and getting involved with our day-to-day work
- Networking with different risk teams to learn a competitive mix of practical knowledge and technical skills
- Learning about the models and practices we use to manage risk
- Accelerating your report writing capability
- Developing your qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills
- Exploring your capability by taking part in a business improvement project
We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £26,010 pro rata. And on top of your salary, you’ll have access to our flexible benefits package.
Plus, you can expect to:
- Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings
- Enrich your learning with access to world-leading research and insights
- Test and learn new approaches in a safe, inclusive environment
- Start building a global professional network
- Grow your confidence, build your resilience, and elevate your presence
- Experience first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation
To be eligible for our Risk 12-month internship, you’ll need:
- To be in your penultimate year of university
- To be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree
- A genuine interest in the world of finance
- Strategic-thinking skills
- A creative approach to problem solving
- Analytical skills
- To be comfortable challenging the status quo
The application window for this programme will be open until we receive enough applications to fill our cohort. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. It’s important to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme) but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out!
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
