Investment Banking Summer Internship Programme 2025 Hong Kong
- Employer
- Barclays
- Location
- Mongkok, Hong Kong
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Nov 20, 2024
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- Job Function
- Accounting/Audit/Tax
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
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Job Description
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, transactions and focus on specialist areas.
Accountabilities
Analyst Expectations
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. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
Summer Internship Programme Overview
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 10 week journey. Join us during the summer of your penultimate year of university to build skills, expand knowledge, and embark on an impactful path towards a promising career.
Why the Investment Banking Summer Internship Programme?
As a Banking intern, you will be working with our Coverage and Mergers and Acquisition 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 deliver on their goals; whether that's through mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, structured solutions or risk management.
As a summer intern, you'll spend the summer learning the art and science behind executing a transaction. As a member of one of our industry, product or geographic groups, you'll work on live deals and deal proposals. You may also work on projects that include:
• Financial analysis and modelling
• Valuation
• Industry research
• Client due diligence
• Developing written materials, including offering memoranda and new business presentations.
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. And being headquartered in Europe gives us a unique advantage. We think and act differently. From Hong Kong to Houston, and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, everyone at Barclays enjoys a real sense of purpose, because they 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 programme, you must be pursuing an undergraduate degree with anticipated completion between December 2025 - June 2026.
Ideally, you would also have a GPA of 3.2 or above and a keen interest in finance and business. You should also be fluent in written Chinese and spoken Mandarin if applying the role in Hong Kong SAR.
We value resourcefulness, teamwork, enthusiasm and an entrepreneurial spirt, all of which might be showcased through your involvement in extracurricular activities.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
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, transactions and focus on specialist areas.
Accountabilities
- Collaboration on live deals, client pitches, support the team with advising on a broad range of corporate clients, delivering holistic, structured solutions to deliver on 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, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for investment banking.
- Development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making in investment banking. Understand how businesses work and learn from experts in the industry.
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 / procedure 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 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, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements 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 contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.
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. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
Summer Internship Programme Overview
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 10 week journey. Join us during the summer of your penultimate year of university to build skills, expand knowledge, and embark on an impactful path towards a promising career.
Why the Investment Banking Summer Internship Programme?
As a Banking intern, you will be working with our Coverage and Mergers and Acquisition 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 deliver on their goals; whether that's through mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, structured solutions or risk management.
As a summer intern, you'll spend the summer learning the art and science behind executing a transaction. As a member of one of our industry, product or geographic groups, you'll work on live deals and deal proposals. You may also work on projects that include:
• Financial analysis and modelling
• Valuation
• Industry research
• Client due diligence
• Developing written materials, including offering memoranda and new business presentations.
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. And being headquartered in Europe gives us a unique advantage. We think and act differently. From Hong Kong to Houston, and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, everyone at Barclays enjoys a real sense of purpose, because they 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 programme, you must be pursuing an undergraduate degree with anticipated completion between December 2025 - June 2026.
Ideally, you would also have a GPA of 3.2 or above and a keen interest in finance and business. You should also be fluent in written Chinese and spoken Mandarin if applying the role in Hong Kong SAR.
We value resourcefulness, teamwork, enthusiasm and an entrepreneurial spirt, all of which might be showcased through your involvement in extracurricular activities.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
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