Risk Analyst Graduate Programme 2024 (Northampton) Northampton, England
Job description
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.
2-year rotational programme designed to give you depth and breadth of experience.
In our business, successfully managing risk is more than strategically important – it’s essential. As an integral part of our success, Barclays’ Risk team helps determine the level of risk considered appropriate for our client, group of clients or other legal entity. Think you have what it takes to succeed here? Join us as an analyst.
Real responsibility, right away
You’ll start out with four weeks of intense training, covering various topics, including accounting, finance, stock and bond analysis, and an overview of all major instruments and businesses. Then you’ll begin the first of three, eight-month long rotations in our offices – with a potential opportunity to work in London for part of the time - exposing you to a variety of areas across Risk. During this programme, you’ll be placed in one of the key areas in Risk, including Credit, Market Risk, Operational, Treasury and Model. Along the way you’ll build excellent foundational knowledge while getting to know our business and our people. As a Risk analyst you may:
- research and analyse financial statements and industry peer groups to assess creditworthiness
- prepare and maintain industry and counterparty credit reviews and ratings
- monitor and report on a product’s risk profile
- on-board new clients and ensure counterparty data is complete and accurate
- assist in handling trade requests, including analysing transaction specific risks.
Risk at Barclays
Barclays is a global force in banking, and Risk at Barclays is involved in every single transaction, every product, every service and every decision Barclays makes across the full suite of Global banking operations. For the 3,000 people who work in Risk across the world, the sheer scale of our operation gives them unrivalled exposure, insight, breadth of experience – and the opportunity to build rich and varied careers within Risk and beyond.
What we are looking for:
To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated with a strong degree or expected degree – in any area.
Ideally, you would also have:
Problem-solving skills and analytical thinking. An interest to understand how a global bank adapts in a constantly evolving regulatory environment and an interest in how our bank responds to external market influences and find the support to build a successful career within Risk.
Working at Northampton
Northampton is a key strategic hub, and home to a community of over 3,000 talented people. Our team is behind global business developments such as fraud leveraging machine learning, and redesigning technology for the contact centre of the future. With so much happening, it’s the ideal place for a diverse career path.
You’ll find our brilliant Barclays minds in our lakeside office, built in 1996. It’s not only environmentally friendly, but also people-friendly too. Here, we encourage wellbeing – from mental health to healthy living to health awareness.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
