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NatWest Group

Graduate Trainee - Corporate and Institutional Banking

Location: London, UK

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Graduate Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) programme providing rotations across customer coverage, banking products and sustainable finance while developing skills in corporate financing, credit analysis and transaction structuring.

Why Corporate & Institutional Banking?

Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is the strategic partner for UK and international corporates and institutions.

Through the course of the programme, graduates will build core skills to support them in managing risk, achieving financial goals, and accessing global markets, financing solutions, risk management tools and transaction banking services.

Your graduate journey

As a CIB Graduate, we’ll give the best possible start to your career by equipping you with experience across our Customer Coverage, Product, and Sustainable Finance teams, providing broad experience, collaboration and customer insight and expertise.

Through in-depth training and working with leading industry experts you will develop unrivalled knowledge and skills.

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

  • Understand the financing, liquidity and risk management requirements of large, complex clients across sectors and align tailored banking and capital solutions

  • Analyse financial statements, cash flows, leverage, liquidity and credit metrics to assess funding needs, capital structures and credit risk

  • Support credit underwriting, transaction structuring, pricing, covenant analysis and risk-adjusted return evaluation

  • Develop product expertise across corporate lending, Debt Capital Markets, private financing, transaction banking, working capital and sustainable finance solutions

  • Collaborate with Coverage, Risk, Credit, Legal and Product teams to originate, structure and execute client transactions while strengthening stakeholder management and communication skills

How you’ll benefit

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £60,000. 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, learn, and fail in a safe and inclusive environment

  • Accelerate your financial and analytical capability

  • Develop your commercial awareness as well as market and product knowledge

  • Build a foundation of sought-after skills to build your career on

  • 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 CIB graduate programme, you’ll need:

  • To have, or be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree

  • A deep sense of curiosity

  • Analytical skills

  • To enjoy collaborating with others and working as part of a team

  • A proactive and resourceful approach to your work

  • To be a keen problem solver

  • Good attention to detail

How to apply

Apply directly through the company website. Clicking the link below will open the application page in a new window.

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NatWest Group

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Industry: Banking & Financial Services

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.

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