Banking Analyst Graduate Program 2027 San Francisco

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, tackling 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.

Responsibilities

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 Barclays Investment Banking

Barclays is one of the world’s top-tier investment banks and 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, working for a business that fosters innovation, champions sustainability, and deploys finance responsibly for the common good and the long term.

Requirements

• Must be in your final year of study at an undergraduate degree program
• GPA of 3.2 or above (ideal)
• Keen interest in business and finance and a curiosity to learn
• Resourcefulness, teamwork, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Barclays does not provide financial assistance or execute documents for OPT or CPT (other than verification of employment). Applicants must be enrolled in or graduate with a degree in a STEM field to be eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension.

Location

You will be working at our 4 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco location. This state-of-the-art office is in the heart of the city and easily accessible by public transportation.

Pay

Base salary: $110,000 (minimum and maximum for this role).

Accountabilities

• Collaborate on live deals, client pitches, and support the team in advising corporate clients on holistic, structured solutions
• Work with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives
• Participate in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge
• Identify opportunities, develop business cases, and manage the deployment of new products and services
• Manage client relationships and provide customer service support, responding to questions and processing transactions
• Develop and implement financial models and strategies to support decision-making
• Understand business operations and learn from industry experts
• Train and mentor junior colleagues

Analyst Expectations

• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, driving continuous improvement
• Demonstrate in-depth technical knowledge and experience in your assigned area of expertise
• Lead and supervise a team, guiding professional development, allocating work, and coordinating resources (if in a leadership role)
• For individual contributors, develop technical expertise and act as an advisor where appropriate
• Impact the work of related teams and 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 and embed new policies due to risk mitigation
• Advise and influence decision-making within your area of expertise
• Manage risk and strengthen controls in relation to your work
• Deliver work in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct
• Maintain and build knowledge of how your sub-function integrates with the broader organization
• Make evaluative judgments based on factual information, resolving problems through technical experience
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside your immediate function and build a network of external contacts

Values and Mindset

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. Additionally, you will be expected to embody the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.