Gain experience working with corporate, financial, and public-sector clients to help them raise debt or equity or negotiate an acquisition.
What you’ll do
Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.
We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.
Over the course of eight to ten weeks, you’ll get to
- Work as part of a dedicated team focused on specific transactions, products, or market sectors, creating solutions for corporate, private equity and financial institution clients. Teams include Advisory and Investment Banking Coverage, Capital Markets, Real Assets, and Structured Finance
- Prepare and review the materials we use when delivering those solutions to clients – including investment memos, management presentations, and pitchbooks
- Gain a better understanding of how different types of financial models are used for mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financing transactions
- Monitor market developments and conduct credit analysis to create internal and external materials
- Perform well and you’ll be considered for a position on our Investment Banking Graduate Programme
Who you are
We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, not just those who’ve studied finance-related degrees, or those who have knowledge of banking.
It takes a broad range of skills to be successful at HSBC. We’re looking forward to seeing the mix of skills you’ve learned so far, and hearing about the unique perspective that you’ll bring to our teams. We’ll help you learn everything else.
To join us on this programme, you’ll need to be
- Intellectually curious with a keen interest in financial markets
- Someone who can prioritise with ease and commit yourself fully to any given task
- Quick to learn and comfortable working in a pacey environment with challenging timelines
- A collaborative team player with an eagle-eye for detail
- A clear, concise communicator who enjoys sharing ideas and opinions
- A strategic and logical thinker who likes to analyse data and situations
What you'll learn
We’ll help you develop the technical skills most relevant to your role. We’ll also provide plenty of opportunities to advance your non-technical skills, like relationship management and collaboration, that will help you move your career forward successfully.
During your time on the programme, you’ll
- Be introduced to financial markets, so you have a better understanding of product overviews, the corporate life cycle, financial modelling, valuation, accounting fundamentals and financial analysis relevant to your team
- Receive training specific to the team you work with that will build your market and industry knowledge
- Learn how we work closely with clients to understand their long-term strategic goals and deliver tailored financial and advisory solutions
- Join our Speaker Series where you’ll meet with senior bankers and learn about our different teams and the breadth of our coverage and clients
- Perform various financial analysis methods that will help you develop the relevant analytical skillset for your team
- Become proficient in Excel and PowerPoint and ever more confident in your presentation and visualisation skills
- Have plenty of other opportunities to develop your behavioural, cognitive and technical skills, plus people to support you along the way, ensuring you’re well prepared for the future
