Uk Corporate Banking Graduate Programme 2025 Birmingham

**Graduate Programme Overview**

**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.

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, compromising of 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 gain 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 Birmingham**
Barclays Snowhill is at the heart of the professional district and commands a workforce of around 1000. With great transport links to Birmingham Grand Central and Snowhill train stations as well as the local metro. Our office has a dedicated staff coffee shop and deli and break out areas for staff. There is also a presentation theatre for client and staff events. Our office boasts a great working environment as well as opportunities to network across the city.

**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**
- Execution of small research projects, research to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with senior management to implement research findings for UK corporate banking.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
- Participation in training and development programmes to enhance skills and knowledge.
- Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for UK corporate banking.

**Analyst Expectations**
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedures appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual informati