Banking Analyst Graduate Program 2027 Houston

About the Program

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. 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 Investment Banking Graduate Program?

Banking provides comprehensive financial advisory, capital raising, financing, and risk management services to corporations, governments, and financial institutions worldwide. We take an integrated approach to client coverage, providing our clients with access to bankers who have industry and geography-specific expertise across all investment banking products.

As a Banking graduate, you will work with various Investment Banking teams. Here, you’ll come up with the answers to our clients’ most strategic questions. Advising a broad range of corporate clients, you’ll deliver holistic, structured solutions that help our clients achieve their goals—whether through mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, structured solutions, or risk management.

Role

After several weeks of intensive training, you’ll join one of our industry, product, or geographic groups and start working on live deals and business development projects right away. Within small deal teams, you’ll quickly play an important role on a variety of demanding assignments. You may work on:

• Financial analysis and modeling
• Valuation
• Industry research
• Business evaluation and strategic assessment
• Business and idea generation
• External and internal stakeholder communication

About Investment Banking at Barclays

Barclays is one of the world’s top-tier investment banks. We are one of the only non-US, full-service rivals to the biggest US investment banks. From Hong Kong to Houston, and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, everyone at Barclays enjoys a real sense of purpose, because we work for a business that fosters innovation, champions sustainability, and deploys finance responsibly for the common good and the long term.

Who We're Looking For

To be considered for this program, you must be motivated and curious and be in your final year of study in an undergraduate degree program. Ideally, you'll have:

• A GPA of 3.2 or above
• A keen interest in business and finance and a curiosity to learn
• Resourcefulness, teamwork, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit, which might be showcased through your involvement in extracurricular activities

To be eligible, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. You are responsible for completion of all documentation in support of Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT). Barclays does not provide financial assistance or execute any documents (other than verification of employment) in connection with OPT or CPT. Barclays will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this program.

Working in Houston

Working at our Houston office will give you the perfect start to your career. With facilities that enable you to do your best work from day one, our Houston office at 609 Main St is just one of our global offices. Whether you're collaborating, learning, networking, or growing—the Houston office is the ideal place for you.

Purpose of the Role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the investment banking division. Gain broad exposure to different types of clients and transactions, and focus on specialist areas.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration on live deals, client pitches, and support the team with advising a broad range of corporate clients, delivering holistic, structured solutions to achieve client goals
• 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, and management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for investment banking
• 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, and processing transactions
• Development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support decision-making in investment banking
• Understand how businesses work and learn from experts in the industry
• Training and mentoring of junior colleagues

Expectations

• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, consistently driving continuous improvement
• Demonstrate in-depth technical knowledge and experience in your assigned area of expertise
• Understand the underlying principles and concepts within your area of expertise
• Lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements, and coordinating team resources (if applicable)
• For individual contributors, develop technical expertise in your work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate
• Impact the work of related teams within the area
• Partner with other functions and business areas
• Take 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 your 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, regulations, and codes of conduct
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how your sub-function integrates with the broader function, alongside knowledge of the organization’s products, services, and processes
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization’s objectives
• Make evaluative judgments 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 precedents
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside your team and external to the organization

Values and Mindset

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. You will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset—to Empower, Challenge, and Drive—the operating manual for how we behave.