Global Transaction Banking Graduate Programme

Graduate Programme Overview

If you’re a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next.

Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong.

The Global Transaction Banking graduate programme imparts understanding of payment products' importance in our Corporate Banking offering. You will innovate payment solutions for global companies, mastering end-to-end product management with risk controls. Completing the programme will equip you with solid corporate product knowledge for a Corporate Banking career.

There are a huge variety of roles, opportunities and career paths to explore at Transaction Banking. Our teams include people of all levels and experience. We have teams focusing on Technology, Digital, Customer Experience, Data, Specialist Sales, Liquidity, Coverage, Trade, Cash Management, FX, Structuring, Operations and Control, supported by Business Management. Our roles range across the product lifecycle from deep technical specialists to client‑facing relationship managers and experts in data, risk and operational rigour.

Our Product Managers act like entrepreneurs running their own small business from beginning to end.

This variety gives our people the agility, deep product knowledge and broad commercial understanding to develop their careers in any number of ways. We’re committed to helping our people update and upgrade their skills as they grow with us.

Global Transaction Banking serves a diverse range of clients, including mid‑sized corporates, large corporates, financial institutions, and small and medium‑sized enterprises (SMEs). These clients are organised based on their specific needs: mid‑sized corporates are typically owner‑managed and single‑banked; large corporates are multi‑banked and aligned by industry sectors; financial institutions include banks, payment service providers, and alternative finance companies; and SMEs range from small businesses to more sophisticated financial institution clients.

We provide tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of each client segment, ensuring they receive the appropriate level of service and support.

Barclays Global Transaction Banking is a perfect place to begin, and build, a long, varied and successful career in finance. You’ll be exposed to an unrivalled depth and breadth of experience. You’ll learn skills and gain product knowledge that prepare you for any role in our organisation.

We are a wide ranging and diverse team of people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pac and the US. We have the strategy, leadership, and investment in place to grow our team significantly, upgrade our digital capabilities and drive global expansion. That’s because we are seen by the business as one of Barclays’ key opportunities for growth. With all this growth, there’s also the opportunity to bring a truly global perspective to your career.

That could mean managing a global team from your current location, creating products that are adapted for use around the world, or making an exciting international career move.

The work we do touches every aspect of corporate and commercial banking. You’ll also get a unique perspective on global commerce, seeing how financial solutions and working…