UK Corporate Banking Graduate Programme 2027 Birmingham

Barclays; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is inviting recent graduates to join the UK Corporate Banking Graduate programme in Birmingham. You will gain foundational banking knowledge, learn through structured training, and support senior colleagues in client-focused decisions and product development.

You will rotate across divisions, develop relationship and technical skills, and be prepared to progress toward roles such as Relationship Director within Barclays Corporate bank.

Qualifications

• Motivated and curious with a degree or expected degree in any area.
• Interest in UK corporate marketplace and analytical mindset.
• Good communication and teamwork; entrepreneurial spirit.

Responsibilities

• Participate in day-to-day UK Corporate Banking activities and support senior colleagues.
• Develop new products/services insights and assist in market opportunities.
• Engage with cross-functional teams and participate in training programmes.
• Identify opportunities and contribute to business cases and launches.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Curious and ambitious

Education

Degree in any area

Job description

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.

UK Corporate Banking at Barclays

UK Corporate Bank supports large and medium corporate clients turning over £6.5m pa up to FTSE 350 firms. We provide the financial and advisory capabilities UK businesses need –day-to-day banking to complex corporate financing arrangements. Our dedicated sector and regional specialists leverage market-leading relationships, powerful data and insights, and the wider Barclays network, to deliver innovative financing solutions that help achieve a more expansive, better-connected future for our clients.

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 accept applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship to work in the UK and will provide a skilled worker visa for successful applicants if they meet the Home Office’s eligibility criteria for a skilled worker visa. Successful applicants who are not eligible to receive a skilled worker visa, and who we are therefore unable to secure a skilled worker visa for, will be required to have their own legal right to work in the UK on a full-time basis from August 2027 to August 2029.

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 client focussed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions.


• 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 programs 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

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.


• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise.


• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.


• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.


• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.


• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.


• 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 / procedure 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 organisation's 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 information, paying attention to detail.


• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.


• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.


• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.