Risk and Treasury Controlling - Placement Year

Overview

In this placement you will support Risk Controlling and Treasury within Finance, taking real responsibilities from day one. You will work with cross-functional teams to forecast risk costs, assist with reporting, and learn how risk and funding align with group guidelines. The role offers hands-on experience with financial instruments and data analysis, backed by mentoring and tailored training. You’ll build capabilities in Excel, SAS, and SQL while contributing to meaningful processes and decisions.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive annual salary
• 27 days holiday per annum (pro rata)
• pension scheme
• subsidised on-site restaurant
• Advantages scheme discounts
• volunteering opportunities

Responsibilities

• Handle weekly inter-company loan requests and interest rate swaps
• Assist Risk Controlling Analysts with forecasting, budgeting risk costs, monthly risk provisions, and adhoc queries
• Own weekly and monthly reporting tasks and manage them independently
• Develop Excel-based analyses and presentations for management committees
• Shadow colleagues to understand the wider business and build cross-functional relationships
• Engage in volunteering projects and on-campus events to gain regulated-environment experience
• Prepare data and reports for stakeholders from multiple sources
• Coordinate with multiple departments to support financing and risk oversight

Key requirements

• Degree-focused field of study in Accounting, Management Science, Business, Economics, or equivalent
• Strong intermediate Excel skills; willingness to advance in Excel tasks
• Ability to learn SAS via point-and-click interface for queries and reports
• Data collation and reporting experience across sources
• Strong communication, influencing, and facilitation skills; ability to multi-task and work under pressure
• Self-motivation and professionalism; able to work on own initiative with mentoring support
• Eligible to return to studies for at least 6 months; right to work in the UK

• communication
• influencing
• facilitation
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• SAS (point-and-click)

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