Financial Services

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Bloomberg
Engineering & Technology
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering accurate, real-time data, news and insights.
  • We run the world’s most trusted information network for financial professionals, connecting people in ways and at speeds no one else can.
  • Our 8,000+ engineers, developers, data scientists and technologists create and advance solutions and systems that solve complex, real-world problems for customers across the global capital markets.
  • We innovate constantly, looking decades ahead to create what our clients will need some day.
  • We’re a leader in applying artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing.

Make it happen here

If you’re passionate about the financial markets, solving complex problems and challenging the status quo, we want to hear from you, whether you’re a student looking for an internship or a graduate seeking a full-time position. Take your first step toward a career at Bloomberg – who knows where it may take you next.

We’ll give you the opportunity to do amazing work you couldn’t do anywhere else. Our systems make an immediate impact on leading global financial markets. Our engineers and technologists roll out new software daily that integrates seamlessly – and immediately – into our clients’ workflows. And we’re looking for the brightest minds to come and work with us. Could that be you?

Whether you join us in Analytics & Sales, Data, Engineering or Bloomberg Customer Support, no two career paths are the same. We understand that each employee is unique, so we provide opportunities that make sense for every individual. So at Bloomberg, you’ll never stop growing.

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Capital One
Financial Services – Credit Cards
Powered by technology, financial services company Capital One is one of the UK’s top ten card providers.
  • We are the only card provider with a 4-star rated credit card from Fairbanking.
  • We pioneered the use of predictive modelling in the industry, and are still driving positive change across the finance sector today through innovative tools such as our QuickCheck eligibility checker.
  • We’re on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity and humanity to banking.
  • We were founded on the belief that the banking industry would be revolutionised by information and technology, beginning with credit cards.

Join us and grow

We’re determined to change banking for good. And that means we look for people who are as committed to shaping the future as we are. People who want to take on new challenges, grow their skills and stretch their potential like never before.

At Capital One, you’ll be set up for career growth with one of the best employers in the UK (we’ve picked up our fair share of awards to prove it).

We offer people with proven ability and bags of potential brilliant career progression, investing heavily in developing great leaders through our training programmes. We’ll give you all the support you need to thrive in your role. Yes, it’s challenging. But it’s also very rewarding.

A career with us is a chance to learn, challenge, grow and take your abilities much, much further. You’ll develop all sorts of new skills as part of a business that’s always pushing boundaries. If this sounds like you, bring your potential and we’ll give you everything you need to grow.

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WTW
People, Risk & Capital
WTW provides data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital.
  • Our work propels the world’s leading businesses forward by increasing their resilience, motivating their workforces and maximising their performance.
  • We have decades of experience with organisations across all sectors from Aviation & Space to Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Natural Resources and Private Equity.
  • Our investment practice has pioneered many of the asset/liability modelling techniques used today.
  • Over 300 multinational companies trust WTW as their global actuary.

Difference makers

Join one of our early careers programmes and you’ll go into a role with real responsibilities, exposure to client assignments and the opportunity to build up valuable experience. With WTW behind you, you’ll learn and develop the skills to succeed in your chosen role.

We’re proud of our culture and committed to making a real impact for our clients and colleagues. That’s why we constantly challenge ourselves to grow our inclusive culture and create a place where we’re bolder together. Our inclusion networks help us to live our values and our defined inclusion and diversity commitments improve and measure our progress. For you, this means joining a company where you can bring your whole self to work.

Our 44,000 colleagues serve 140 countries and markets to transform tomorrows. At WTW, you’ll tackle challenges with the help of a diverse, expert global team and identify strategic solutions that move us – and the world’s most powerful organisations – forward.

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Admiral
Financial Services – Insurance
Admiral is an international financial services group with customers in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and the USA.
  • We offer a variety of products including MultiCover, MultiCar, home insurance and travel insurance.
  • We’re one of the UK’s largest car insurance providers and were the first company to offer MultiCar policies, allowing customers to cover multiple cars in one discounted policy.
  • Established in 1993, we’ve grown from 57 employees in Cardiff to a team of over 11,000 people in eight countries.
  • We’re Wales’ only FTSE 100 company.
  • We’re continuously launching new brands and products – both here in the UK and overseas.

Your future starts here

Here at Admiral, we’ve been running graduate programmes since 2006, so we have plenty of experience in training and developing grads into successful and long-term colleagues.

Our Data/Analytics Graduate Programme is tailored for students of STEM subjects, in particular Mathematics, Physics, Economics and Engineering. You’ll need to be a logical thinker with strong data analysis and mathematical skills for this role.

If you’ve got skills and experience in data analysis, project work and/or research, our Emerging Talent Programme may be for you. And we also have many direct entry roles for STEM graduates who prefer to go straight into a data-oriented role, rather than do rotations.

Right from the start we’ll invest heavily in your training and development to bring you up to speed with Admiral and the insurance world, helping to pave the way for you to have a successful, rewarding and exciting career with us.

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J.P. Morgan
Financial Services – Investment Banking
J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available.
  • We specialise in investment banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
  • With more than 240,000 employees worldwide, we serve corporations and individuals in more than 100 countries.
  • We’re not just a financial institution, we’re one of the world’s biggest tech-driven companies, spending $15 billion a year in technology.
  • As one of the oldest, largest and best-known financial institutions in the world, we’ve been helping our clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years.

Code your own career

Our top team of global technologists is always working to keep the company ahead of the curve, and they’d like you to join them in designing, building and deploying tomorrow’s innovative technology.

When you join our tech team, you’ll thrive in a workplace that encourages innovation through collaboration. You’ll work on everything from advancing blockchain protocols to breakthroughs in machine learning, and with 50,000 technologists globally, you’ll be able to draw on diverse expertise and experience. And your code could be used by 80% of Fortune 500 companies, and help support clients all over the world!

Our opportunities are designed to constantly challenge you to learn and develop, so you can build the career you want. If you’re looking for the chance to innovate, lead and make an impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, then join J.P. Morgan and make this ‘your start to something big’.

Turner & Townsend
Asset Management & Consultancy
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 10,000 people in 48 countries.
  • Underpinned by our experience in transforming major projects and programmes, we help make businesses and investments a success.
  • We enable organisations to make informed, data-based, decisions on how best to utilise their assets, how to optimise their supply chain, how to plot a path to carbon net zero, and how to get the best from their people.
  • We offer support throughout the project and asset life cycle with fully digital integrated ways of working, enabling us to continually assess, adapt and advance clients’ performance.

We can help you get to where you want to be

Join one of our development programmes like our CEO and hundreds of others who started their career as graduates with us!

Our Graduate Development Programme is a structured two-year learning environment that’ll provide you with the skills and experience you need to succeed. You’ll receive market-leading training through our technical training academy, as well as on-the-job learning, and the programme is blended with external qualifications and professional accreditation to ensure you become an industry-leading professional. We offer our graduate programmes in a range of locations across the UK, and we have plenty of exciting opportunities for placement students too.

If you’d jump at the chance to work on a diverse range of global projects across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, join our team and start making a difference every day.

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Zurich
Insurance
Zurich, one of the UK’s leading insurers, provides a suite of insurance products to individuals and businesses.
  • Our insurance products cover business, casualty, motor, property and travel insurance, life insurance and pensions products.
  • In the UK, we employ over 4,500 people.
  • We’re proud to be the first composite insurer to gain Chartered Insurer status from the Chartered Insurance Institute for the whole of our UK general insurance business.
  • We are part of Zurich Insurance Group which is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872.

Calling all future innovators, creative thinkers and digital disruptors

Whether you’re fresh out of uni or want to gain some vital work experience during the summer, Zurich has a scheme for you. With an exciting range of opportunities in areas such as Actuarial, Change & Technology Management, Data and Analytics, Risk Engineering and Sustainable Energy, there really is something for everyone.

All our schemes will equip you with a strong foundation of workplace knowledge and skills, alongside opportunities to put those skills into practice. You’ll be able to grow, explore and identify where you can excel – both personally and professionally – in our supportive and enriching learning environment.

If you’re interested in a dynamic and challenging career, for a company that recognises and rewards your creativity, initiative and contributions – then Zurich could be just the place for you.

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Hymans Robertson
Digital & Innovation
With a 100+ year history, Hymans Robertson is one of the leading consultancies in its field in the UK.
  • We work alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, offering independent pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions.
  • Our insights and analytics, innovation and digital teams are powered by close to 200 industry experts, from data scientists to modellers and technical architects, and developers to UX designers.
  • With over 1,000 employees and four offices, we’re at the forefront of our industry, and play an active role in shaping the way it works.

Make your career count

Our graduate and student programmes give you the chance to work alongside and learn from some of our industry’s sharpest minds. From day one you’ll be encouraged to think freely and challenge the way things are done.

While we offer a range of structured early careers programmes, you will have a variety of paths available to you. You’ll be in control of your career progression, and you can develop how and when you want to with our award-winning online learning platform, Aspire. Throughout your time with us, you’ll grow your skills and experience with exposure to a wide variety of projects and clients.

We want to make working at Hymans Robertson the best job you’ll ever have! We offer hybrid working so you can enjoy the benefits of both working from home and meeting your colleagues in our sociable, modern offices. And we’ve got a great range of flexible benefits so you can choose the ones that suit you best.

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PwC
Technology
One of the world’s leading professional services organisations, PwC specialises in assurance, tax and advisory services.
  • As a hugely diverse business, we address big issues from the future of pensions to cyber security to the Sustainable Development Goals. We’re also a leading advisor on sustainability and climate change.
  • From building teams with diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise to investing in our skills and technologies, we take a human-led, tech-powered approach.
  • We’re a team of 364,000 people working across 151 countries.
  • We have a network of 19 offices across the UK.

Explore. Inspire. Reimagine.

Now is an exciting time to join PwC as our business is evolving. Technology, automation and artificial intelligence are disrupting how we work and help us achieve our purpose – to build trust in society and solve important problems.

If you’re agile in your thinking, can adapt quickly to the changing world and are excited about working smarter through technology, we want to hear from you.

With tech roles in everything from cyber security and digital audit to forensic technology, there’s something for everyone at PwC. No matter which area of the business you’re interested in, you’ll have access to a range of training resources and a development pathway tailored to your business area and to you, providing a blended mix of PwC-led learning and your own enthusiasm and drive. There really is no limit to how far you could go.

So come and join our human-led, tech-powered team and play a part in shaping the future.

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