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Investment Banking FixedIncome & Currencies Degree Apprenticeship
The Deutsche Bank Apprenticeship Programme:
Our Apprenticeship Programme will transform your career, providing you with world-class training (full financial sponsorship towards an Applied Finance degree and professional qualifications such as CISI/IMC and CFA), exposure to fascinating projects, and endless opportunities to gain the skills you need to innovate for the benefit of our clients and society.
About the business division:
Discover the world of financial markets and begin your career in our Fixed Income & Currencies (FIC) division.
We pride ourselves on being the risk manager of choice for our clients, helping them to achieve their goals and maximise results. We bring together a long-established sales force with outstanding trading, financing, and structuring expertise.
You’ll be part of a team that provides innovative solutions to clients across Foreign Exchange, Rates, Emerging Markets and Credit. With a constantly evolving client offering our experience helps us to respond to market trends, deliver for our clients and make a difference in the world.
Division specifics about the apprenticeship role:
As an apprentice, you’ll be provided with the training, study support and on-the-job coaching to accelerate your career. With study support towards a degree in Applied Finance and professional qualifications (e.g., CISI/IMC, CFA). Apprentices will also be supported by a mentor.
Apprentices will spend approximately 20% of their time studying as part of the apprenticeship scheme (at the end of year 2, leading to Level 4 investment operations specialist apprentice award and end of year 4, leading to Level 6 financial services apprentice award) in addition to assessments provided by practitioner qualification providers (CISI, IMC, CFA). Furthermore, apprentices will gain a degree in BSc (Hons) Applied Finance at the end of the 4 years subject to passing all required assessments.
Your rotational experience in FIC will give you the opportunity to work in different teams and have a varied role. Your tasks might include industry research, company performance monitoring, pricing products for traders, preparing financial data analysis, pitching trades to the team, participating in client calls, or refining the way we do forecasts. In addition, you will be involved in live deals, exploring new private financing & lending opportunities, preparing marketing materials for clients, and reviewing deal pricing and structure comparisons.
What we look for:
We recruit students and graduates who are intelligent and adaptable with excellent communication skills. Even though good levels of numeracy are important for some roles, you won’t necessarily need a formal mathematical or financial background. Our comprehensive training programmes will give you all the technical knowledge you’ll need to build a career with us.
Please note that to apply for our 2024 Apprenticeship Programme you must graduate from sixth form (school, academy or college) in 2024 or have graduated in the last 12 months (i.e., in 2023).
Offers will be conditional on acceptance to the Applied Finance degree programme at Queen Mary so we encourage all applicants to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements (e.g. AAA at A-Level including A in Maths) as set out in the relevant course page Applied Finance - Queen Mary University of London (qmul.ac.uk).
Our Well-being is our success:
Feeling healthy, engaged and well-supported, enables us to do our best work and get the most out of life outside of the office. That’s why Deutsche Bank is committed to providing benefits and programmes centred around well-being.
About us and our teams:
Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.
We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.
About Deutsche Bank
Defining the trajectory of my career.
Realising my potential. Feels like Deutsche Bank.
At Deutsche Bank, you’re empowered to discover your role in transforming the world of banking. You’ll be supported to find your place in a team of people from a wide range of backgrounds and with a variety of skills. Each individual here has a part to play in reimagining banking services for corporations, governments and private individuals, worldwide. You will have real opportunities to drive economic growth, underpin societal progress and make a positive impact for our clients, colleagues, investors and communities.
Our Apprenticeship is your chance to gain experience on the real work at the heart of a global bank. We’ve designed our programme to provide a combination of practical skills development, technical learning and opportunities to apply it on groundbreaking projects.
We’re looking for talented and driven school leavers from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds. When you join us, you’ll feel empowered by an inclusive culture, specifically focussed on helping everyone build a career based on their particular strengths. If you’re interested in the future of finance, and reaching the height of your potential without going to university, this is the right choice for you.
How to apply
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Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
