Job description
Join us as a summer intern and discover the world of finance and technology. Dive into our culture, engaging in real projects that offer a comprehensive business overview. Select your desired business area for an in-depth introduction, taking on immediate responsibility guided by a mentor and line manager. Forge connections, explore new horizons, and unlock growth opportunities in this 8-10 week journey. Join us during the summer of your penultimate year of university to build skills, expand your knowledge, and embark on an impactful path toward a promising career.
Why the Compliance Summer Intern program?
Compliance is a fascinating, challenging, and rewarding place to work. You’ll be joining a team that is absolutely vital to the bank’s operations, doing work that really matters. You’ll protect customers, fight crime, defend our reputation, define how we do business, and look to the future. Simply put, without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.
As a summer analyst, you’ll spend the summer with our team, building a solid foundation in Compliance and helping the Group deliver our strategy – in the right way. You’ll either join one of our business-facing teams, supporting a particular business division, or one of our firm-wide core teams, supporting the entire Group. You may:
* Review policy breaches and escalations to identify themes and create recommendations to increase efficiency
* Draft procedures for regulatory disclosures
* Advise colleagues about regulations related to specific products and services
* Help maintain the barrier between private side and public side teams
* Work closely with IT to represent Compliance requirements for new systems.
Compliance at Barclays
Acting as guardian for the whole of Barclays means taking on a whole range of important roles. Compliance people research and investigate. We gather, study, and analyze complex data from a wide range of sources. We follow leads, identify risks, evaluate threats, and predict the trends that will define the future. We’re involved in surveillance and control, product design, and implementation. We are tech people, training professionals, and communications experts. We are developers, project managers, consultants, and administrators. Across all those disciplines, we are problem solvers, finding ways to deliver great outcomes for our business, our colleagues our customers, and our clients.
What we are looking for:
To be considered for this program, you must currently be pursuing an undergraduate degree with an anticipated graduation year in 2026.
Ideally, you would also have:
* A passion and enthusiasm to work in technology will help you to thrive and deliver results, no matter what role you are in.
* You’ll also need to be customer-orientated, full of resilience, drive, and spirit, and take pride in a job well done.
Purpose of the role
To gain experience in risk management skills, knowledge, and capabilities to deliver a broad range of compliance services to businesses and functions.
Accountabilities
* Guiding the business’s adherence to the Compliance risk management framework.
* Advisory services to colleagues about regulations related to specific products and services.
* Utilization of data and analytics to proactively monitor and influence the business Compliance risk landscape.
* Development of Compliance risk insight and understanding, including Laws, Rules and Regulations, Financial Crime, and Conduct.
* Training of business stakeholders.
Analyst Expectations
* 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/procedures 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 of 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 to own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organization’s products, services, and processes within the function.
* Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub-function.
* 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 will be guided by 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 the team and external to the organization.
What you get in return
However high you rise at Barclays, we believe all our employees should receive a competitive package of core benefits flexible to you and your family’s needs. At Barclays, you’ll support our customers and clients, and we’ll support you with rewards that will genuinely make a difference. See some of the benefits you could receive when joining us full-time.
* Paid holiday and vacation
* Competitive pay
* Private medical care
* Disability assurance
* Flexible working
* Life assurance
* Voluntary benefits
* Retirement planning