Register Your Interest - Risk Internship

Register Your Interest - Risk Internship

Why Risk?

In Risk, our role is to make sure we're doing the right thing as an organisation - for our people and our customers. Risk management allows us to strike a balance between taking risks and reducing them.  

It's our responsibility to manage risk across the bank, ensuring we have the right culture, strategy and rules in place. We also manage interactions with key regulators, providing trusted advice to the colleagues who are serving our customers. 

Our world-class summer internship

Our Risk summer internship has been designed to give you a taste of what it’s like to work with us, along with valuable experience to help guide your career choices.

At the end of the placement, we’ll assess you on what you’ve learned. Complete this successfully and you could be offered a place on our Risk graduate programme, where you can carry the skills you’ve learnt forward and take the next step in your career.  

Over the course of this eight-week programme, you can look forward to:

• Seeing first-hand how we work together as one-bank to deliver an outstanding service for our customers
• Learning about our culture, values and goals
• Attending training workshops and getting involved with our day-to-day work
• Working with different risk teams to learn a competitive mix of practical knowledge and technical skills
• Learning about the models and practices we use to manage risk
• Accelerating your report writing capability
• Developing your qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills
• Exploring your capability by taking part in a business improvement project 
• Developing your collaboration, creative-thinking and problem-solving skills  

How you’ll benefit

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £22,600 pro rata.

Plus, you can expect to:

• Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings
• Enrich your learning with access to world-leading research and insights
• Test and learn new approaches in a safe, inclusive environment
• Start building a global professional network
• Grow your confidence, build your resilience, and elevate your presence
• Experience first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation

Entry requirements

To be eligible for our Risk internship you’ll need: 

• To be in your penultimate year of university
• To be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree
• A genuine interest in the world of finance
• Strategic-thinking skills
• A creative approach to problem solving
• Analytical skills
• To be comfortable challenging the status quo

About NatWest

NatWest Group is a relationship bank for a digital world. We champion potential; breaking down barriers and building financial confidence so the 19 million people, families and businesses we serve throughout the UK and Ireland can rebuild and thrive. If our customers succeed, so will we.

You may recognise some of our many brands, NatWest Group is the umbrella we all sit under, but this also includes The Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Coutts, Adam & Company, Ulster Bank, Lombard and many more.

Being inclusive goes right to the core of our culture, and we hire the best people for the position on offer regardless of their gender, race, culture, creed or physical abilities.