Graduate Trainee - Financial Solutions

Why Financing Solutions?

In Financing Solutions our goal is to provide debt financing, risk solutions, and first-class advisory services for UK and European corporate and private equity clients. We cover a broad range of specialisms, including acquisition financing, specialist asset-backed financing, leveraged buyouts, infrastructure financing, and project finance for greenfield renewable energy projects.

Our world-class graduate programme

As a graduate trainee in Financing Solutions, we’ll equip you with the knowledge, skills, and experiences you’ll need to make a significant impact and become a leading debt banker.

Over the course of this two-year programme, you can expect to:

• Build meaningful relationships with some of the most sophisticated customers in Europe, from medium sized corporations and blue-chip companies to leading private equity sponsors
• Gain debt product experience across loans, bonds, private placements, acquisition financing, and derivatives, and develop a real insight into product development and digital banking
• Experience different business areas including our market-leading bond and derivative syndicate and execution franchise in NatWest Markets

At the end of the programme, you’ll be well positioned to apply for associate roles across our Corporate Banking & Structured Finance business including roles in leveraged acquisition finance, infrastructure projects finance, risk solutions, and more.

How you’ll benefit

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £56,000 a year. And on top of your salary, you’ll have access to our flexible benefits package.

You can also 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
• Accelerate your financial modelling, credit analysis, and risk management capability
• Develop your ability to pitch ideas, develop solutions, and challenge the status quo
• Expand your 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

Entry requirements

To be eligible for our Financing Solutions graduate programme, you’ll need:

• To have, or be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree
• Integrity and creativity
• A strong customer focus
• The ability to build meaningful relationships
• To be curious, and willing to openly challenge the status quo
• A genuine desire to shape the best solutions for our customers
• To be motivated and ambitious

Ready to apply?

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!

Not all of our graduate programmes offer Skilled Worker sponsorship. We will only offer sponsorship if there is a business requirement to do so and the job meets Skilled Worker Visa eligibility criteria.

Have another question?

Head over to our ‘Applying and eligibility support’ page now for answers to some of our most commonly asked questions.

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