Banking Graduate Programme 2026 Madrid

Graduate Programme Overview Graduate Programme Overview – 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. You’ll receive training and support to help you make your mark, and you’ll 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. If you’re curious, creative and ambitious, this is a world in which you can belong.

Why the Investment Banking Graduate programme?

In our Country Coverage, Sector and M&A teams, the Investment Banking team builds and maintains relationships with clients, understands their needs, expectations and financial goals, and develops and proposes appropriate investment banking solutions for clients and their companies.

The chance to make an impact

As a Banking graduate, you will work with our Coverage and Mergers and Acquisition teams. You’ll answer our clients’ most strategic questions and deliver holistic, structured solutions that help clients achieve their goals—whether through mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, structured solutions or risk management.

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

You may work on :

Financial analysis and modelling

Valuation

Industry research

Business evaluation and strategic assessment

Business and idea generation

External and internal stakeholder communication

2 year targeted, fast-track programme focused on developing specialist technical expertise.

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. Being headquartered in Europe gives us a unique advantage. We act with purpose, fostering innovation, championing sustainability, and deploying finance responsibly. We provide comprehensive financial advisory, capital raising, financing and risk management services to corporations, governments and financial institutions worldwide, with integrated client coverage and access to bankers with industry and geography-specific expertise across all investment banking products.

Who we’re looking for

To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated and curious with a degree or expected degree—in any area. Language requirements : fluent in English and Spanish. Ideally, you will have an interest in business and finance, a good work ethic, and be keen to learn and develop your skill set to deliver the best products to our clients.

Barclays Europe – We’ve had a presence in Europe for a long time, building on solid foundations and leveraging embedded talent in 10 locations across the region to draw on local and regional insight.

Working in Madrid – Our office in Madrid delivers informed strategic advice, comprehensive financial solutions and risk management services, creating sophisticated strategies customised to meet client needs.

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.

Accountabilities

Collaborate on live deals, client pitches, and support the team with advising on a broad range of corporate clients, delivering holistic, structured solutions to meet client goals.

Collaborate 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 and launch of new products and services for investment banking.

Manage client relationships and provide customer service support, responding to questions about products and services and processing transactions.

Develop and implement financial models and strategies to support decision making in investment banking.

Train and mentor junior colleagues.

Analyst Expectations

Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, consistently driving continuous improvement.

Require in-depth technical knowledge and experience in the assigned area of expertise.

Thorough understanding of underlying principles within the area of expertise.

If in a leadership role, lead and supervise a team, guiding professional development, allocating work, and coordinating resources.

Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver excellence (the four LEAD behaviours : Listen and be authentic; Energise and inspire; Align across the enterprise; Develop others).

For individual contributors, develop technical expertise and act as an advisor where appropriate.

Impact the work of related teams within the area and partner with other functions.

Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.

Escalate breaches of policies / procedures as needed and embed new policies adopted for risk mitigation.

Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.

Own risk management and strengthen controls for the work you own or contribute to, delivering in line with relevant rules and codes of conduct.

Maintain and build understanding of how sub-functions integrate with the function, and knowledge of products, services and processes.

Understand how areas coordinate to achieve organisational objectives.

Make evaluative judgments based on factual information and attention to detail.

Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions guided by experience and precedents.

Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex information.

Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build an external network.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

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