Summer Associate
Expect to gain valuable experience, while also having a genuine impact on our business.
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Our Markets teams provide execution and risk management across every major asset class around the globe.
Fast, fascinating and incredibly dynamic, the global markets are a barometer of world events – not to mention an incredible place to build a career. You’ll work closely with clients around the world to help them achieve their ambitions in the right way.
Perhaps you have a talent for building great relationships. Maybe you thrive on the pressure of fast-paced decision making. Or you might want to stretch your problem solving or communication skills. Whatever your strengths, you can make the most of them in one of our teams.
Whether you join us an as intern or a graduate, you can rely on our commitment and support to help you learn fast and make achievements you can be proud of.
In the Americas, we have opportunities in the following areas:
Learn more about each below.
These teams serve our institutional investor clients – asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, central banks and the like – by helping them understand developments in global markets and offering execution and risk management solutions across each major asset class.
As a Salesperson, you’ll match our products and services to clients’ needs, offering differentiated insights along the way.
As a Trader, you’ll build your clients’ trust by providing informed advice, helping them navigate the market and executing their chosen investment strategies.
State and local governments, public authorities, health care systems,
universities, utilities and other not-for-profit organizations have complex
financial needs. Our Public Finance team
exists to provide comprehensive investment banking and capital markets
solutions that help these public sector clients achieve their ambitions
Public Finance sits within our Municipal Finance business, where we combine banking, underwriting, sales, trading, strategy and derivative products into one unit. You’ll help create and deliver solutions across the whole spectrum of complex financial products for a wide variety of clients. If you’re interested in the public sector and have a passion for the markets, consider joining our Public Finance team.
TCU supports our Markets business by capturing trade information quickly and accurately. And with colleagues across the globe generating hundreds of thousands of trades daily, that’s no mean feat.
The TCU team ensures all trades
placed are entered accurately, accepted with the right economic terms, and
reviewed or adjusted as needed to manage risk. This team works with colleagues
across Sales and Trading, while also weighing in on the design and
implementation of system architecture to support trade capture. Your highly
analytical mind coupled with your knack for processes – along with our support
– will help you succeed here.
Electronic trading is evolving fast. We want to be one of the leading innovators in the field, so we built a team that brings together experts in Statistics, Trading, Analytics and Technology. The Statistical Modelling and Development team is part of Barclays’ Front Office, providing algorithms and trading decision logic for electronic trading. The team partners with technology, risk, control functions and trading to deliver industry-leading algorithms for automated pricing, risk management and execution across all asset classes. Implemented in a high performance library, these are based upon data analysis, statistical and machine learning models.
As part of this team, you would help deliver algorithms for automated pricing, risk management and execution.The better you can assimilate a complex array of quantitative, programming and market information, the more successful you will be.
The
Automated Volatility Trading group is engaged in systematic trading of Equities
and Options markets. The group develops
and deploys algorithmic investment strategies, based on economic intuition,
quantitative research and advance technologies.
Markets Risk
and Control, as part of the Front Office, partners with Trading, Distribution
and other key stakeholders to design,
develop, implement and maintain an efficient and effective control environment
across our Markets business.
Our industry-leading QA team develops quantitative models and provides quantitative solutions to front office trading desks, and the Risk, Finance and Treasury functions.
QA offers an invigorating and enlightening working environment. Here you’ll work with top quantitative talent to deliver cutting-edge solutions on derivative pricing, risk management, capital utilization, strategic technological advancements and more. If you have strong mathematical, analytical, and/or programming skills, and enjoy real-world problem solving, the QA team is a perfect place to make the most of your skills and build a rewarding career.
Credit Research is ideal for analytical thinkers with the curiosity to dig further into financial statements, credit agreements and indentures. The team sits on the corporate credit trading floor, just rows away from where the trade execution occurs. It’s a fast-paced operation that’s organized into four primary groups: high yield, investment grade, emerging markets and strategy.
Whichever group you work in, you’ll have daily
meetings with Sales and Trading colleagues, where you’ll deliver a succinct
summary of what to discuss with clients throughout the day. You’ll also talk to
clients daily yourself, giving them our views on a credit or sector, and how
valuations might be affected by specific events.
This award-winning team provides fundamental research on nearly 1,700 companies across the Americas and Europe. Our analysts create actionable investment ideas based on independent, objective, primary research. They deliver in-depth expertise by identifying industry trends and individual company inflection points. Our team interacts with institutional money managers, corporate executives, industry experts, as well as our internal partners across Markets, Banking and Research.
The ability to articulate and present succinct, accurate, insightful messages is crucial. You’ll learn to react swiftly to market movements and provide quick but thorough analysis on how industry trends or geopolitical movements may affect the industry or specific companies you cover.
The Macro Research team is diverse. It includes analysts who develop and present the Barclays Research view on economies, bond markets and commodities, as well as strategists who build recommendations based on these views. The individuals in Macro Research come from many different academic backgrounds, but most have some grounding in economics.
Compared with the Equity or Credit Research teams, Macro Research is a small group. But the views they develop are inputs for a wide variety of both internal clients (Sales, Trading, and other parts of research) and external clients. The type of individual who thrives in Macro Research is therefore someone who gets excited about digging into the nuance of data and developing insights, but should also be at ease formulating a compelling story about their view and communicating this in written work, graphics, and presentations.
Expect to gain valuable experience, while also having a genuine impact on our business.
From clients to Sales to Trading, you’ll find real exposure here. Support Senior Analysts in all aspects of their role, and build the skills to set you on the path to becoming one yourself.
Come up with insights that inspire action. Become a go-to for clients and colleagues alike. With a steep learning curve, you’ll find incredible career prospects here.
Have a Senior Analyst’s support to gain vital skills and launch your career. Learn about investment grade and high-yield corporate credits, and help generate valuable ideas.
Conceive executable trade ideas that move our team and clients forward. Learn to think like a portfolio manager – with support from a whole team.
In our industry, managing risk isn’t just important; it’s essential – and you’ll help make it happen.
Learn the analytical and business skills to drive results for teams bank-wide.
Join a high-intensity environment and get to grips with a wide range of products and clients.
From US monetary policy to domestic macro-economic developments. With the support from a senior analyst you can build real consultancy experience here.
Spend your summer learning about the world of algorithmic trading. Build solid relationships and use your expertise to turn mathematical and algorithmic ideas into trading reality.
Work with an award-winning team of experts - then become one in your own right. Discover what happens when you add your insight to ours - then discover the potential of your career.
Build a career to be proud of with us, helping clients with investment decisions. Develop the skills and experience to become a recognized and trusted expert.
Turn insight into action with us. Develop your skills with the support of our award-winning team.
Be involved in shaping big investment decisions alongside trusted experts, providing the insight our colleagues and clients need.
Join the team that writes the algorithms that power electronic trading – and in the process, you’ll build the skills to drive your future career.
Join the team that writes the algorithms that power electronic trading – and in the process, you’ll build the skills to drive your future career.
Be involved in both macroeconomic and quantitative research that has a real impact on our business. Whilst gaining a really clear understanding of the FX market.
Use your analytical mind to explore data insights, and drive financial improvement across the business.
Get to grips with monetary policy and get the chance to contribute to innovative strategies in fixed income markets in this 10-week program.
Discover an in depth world of research, where you’ll work with others to deliver market-leading solutions across everything from FX and commodities to bond and interest rates.
Gain valuable experience working on custom projects and empirical studies using public databases and Barclays’ proprietary data, models and analytics.
In your 10 weeks with us gain a huge amount of knowledge – about the market, Barclays’ products and the financial regulatory landscape as a whole.
Use your analytical mind to overcome financial structuring hurdles, and recommend concepts that could influence vital business decisions.
Turn your interest in markets and the public sector into a career you’ll be proud of, by bringing the full range of Barclays’ products and services to public sector clients.
Bring your interest in financial markets and the public sector to our team, where you’ll work on real deals alongside inspiring colleagues.
Be at the heart of innovative technological advancements. Here, you’ll take on new challenges, develop your technical skills, and make an impact.
Make an impact this summer, working as an intern within an industry-leading team. Contribute to exciting technological advancements that will build on your considerable skills.
Rotate across asset classes and desks, using your considerable quantitative skills to help clients make their next move.
Leverage your quantitative skills to build the models and conduct the analyses that drive our clients' investment decisions.
Anticipate the trends that help the client make their next move.
Anticipate the trends that help the client make their next move.
Anticipate the trends that help the client make their next move.
Find your place among a sales or trading team. Whichever you join, you’ll make markets and develop your skills every day.
Gain an understanding of the financial markets as you rotate through a range of roles and asset classes, working with and learning from industry-leading market makers.
Experience different sales and trading desks across asset classes in this 10-week rotational program.
Gain an understanding of the financial markets as you work across a broad spectrum of financial products and learn from an industry-leading team.
Turn mathematical and algorithmic ideas into trade reality, with a role that makes a real difference for Barclays.
Learn at the heart of the financial markets, supporting front-to-back trade execution. You’ll find huge support from us in return.
Spend your summer learning how trades are captured. Work closely with expert Sales and Trading teams to build your network and skills, putting you en route to a great career.
We have lots of fascinating opportunities in the Asia Pacific region too. So whether you’re more familiar with that part of the world or fancy working somewhere new, why not take a look?
The culture here is very supportive of employees at all levels and lends itself well to mentorship.
One of the benefits of doing research is that there are such a large variety of topics that clients will find interesting, which means there is a lot of flexibility in what research topics you can work on.
The most interesting part of my experience at Barclays has been being part of a new division within the bank.