Financial Markets Apprenticeship

Summary

Our Front Office Financial Markets Apprenticeship is a unique two-year programme with the opportunity to ‘earn while you learn’ and gain an industry recognised qualification through (CISI). If you’re curious, driven, motivated to learn and accelerate your career in an exciting and fast-paced environment we would love to hear from you.

Wage

£29,904 a year

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Planned salary increases after 1st year of the apprenticeship

Training course

Investment operations specialist (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 8 September

Duration

2 years

Positions available

6

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Have access to all areas of our Financial Markets business and its supporting functions to really learn how a bank operates.
Have the chance to rotate around different desks for broad business exposure, discovering your strengths to guide your future career.
Apply your own thinking and share ideas with your team and colleagues.
Project work, including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives.

Where you’ll work

1 BASINGHALL AVENUE
LONDON
EC2V 5DD

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Your training course

Investment operations specialist (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Maintains a consistently high standard of service internally, towards clients and with intermediaries. Adheres to well defined timeframes, systems and processes. Consistently attentive to accuracy, detail and timeliness; meets required risk, regulatory and governance requirements. Performs tasks which may be complex, specialised, or non-routine, such as bespoke (OTC) derivative settlement and margin calculations, monitoring and processing these complex transactions through to completion; Preparing management, investment performance or review reports for internal and external clients.
Adopts high quality written and verbal communication skills as appropriate for communicating with internal and external clients. . Builds positive relationships with clients and colleagues using sound interpersonal and influencing skills. Able to coach/train less experienced colleagues. Able to communicate and negotiate complex situations and issues that may arise.
Consistently supports colleagues and the wider business, collaborating to achieve results. Aware of their role within team, how their team fits within the business and how the team’s decisions impacts on others. Takes a leadership role in the team when appropriate. Operates well under time pressure.
Takes ownership for delivery in their area of responsibility, both for the core role and for developing and implementing changes. Able to exercise autonomy and judgement within fairly broad parameters. Finds effective ways to resolve issues. Escalates decisions and issues when necessary. Capable of resolving complex issues that may involve other business areas.
Proactively plans and records their own development; seeks constructive feedback and incorporates within development plan; keeps up to date with changes in all areas of the role; shows commitment to the job and the industry.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English Language (grade 5 or above)
Maths (grade 6 or above)

A Level in:

Any subject (grade B or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Organisation skills
Analytical skills
Team working

About this company

We are an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we have worked to make a positive difference for our colleagues, clients, and communities.  And we are on a journey to be the world’s most sustainable and responsible bank.  We question the status quo, love a challenge, and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you are looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we cannot wait to see the talents you can bring us. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you will see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:  Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

After this apprenticeship

Successful apprentices are offered a full time permanent position post the apprenticeship programme.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000304136.

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Closes in 4 days (Sunday 16 March)

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