Sales, Trading and Structuring Graduate Programme 2026 Madrid

**Date live**:
**09/05/2025**

**Business Area**:
**See job description**

**Area of Expertise**:
**Early Careers**

**Contract**:
**Graduate**

**Reference Code**:
**JR-0000070796**

**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. To put it simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next.

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.

**Why the Sales, Trading and Structuring Graduate Programme?**

Barclays makes markets in nearly all major asset classes, providing sophisticated, timely solutions to our clients.

Our Sales & Trading team works in a fast-paced, dynamic and exciting environment, quickly processing information and anticipating market trends to help clients make their next move.

Over your time as an analyst, you’ll develop a solid understanding of the global markets while building your communication, quantitative and analytical skills.

After intensive initial training, you will start your career as a salesperson or a trader on a specific desk in one of our business areas, including: Client Capital Management, Client Strategy, Commodities, Credit, eFICC Trading, Equities, Equity Financing, Foreign Exchange, Municipals, Rates, Structuring and Securitised Products.

As a Sales analyst, you’ll start by supporting your colleagues before taking on your own set of clients. You may:

- Analyse and develop solutions to clients’ needs
- Monitor markets and formulate trade ideas
- Perform various analysis on fundamental and technical data
- Attend client meetings or calls with traders, salespeople and research colleagues

As a Trading analyst, you may:

- Monitor markets and generate trade ideas
- Participate in pricing products
- Help out with daily tasks such as trade reporting or P&L analysis
- Assist with managing risk of the team’s trading books

1-2 year targeted, fast-track programme focused on developing specialist technical expertise.

**Markets at Barclays**

Markets is the financial barometer of world events at Barclays. So every day is different and it’s a challenging, fascinating place to build a career.

We help institutional investors to identify market opportunities, manage risk and generate returns for their portfolios.

Our teams provide market insights, execution services and tailored risk management and financing solutions to our clients; we help them protect their capital and make the most of their assets.

As one of the largest investment banks in the world, we offer a full range of products and services across every type of investment market.

**Who we're looking for**

To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated and curious with a degree or expected degree in any area. Language requirements: fluent in English and Spanish, desirable in German, Italian, French.

Ideally, you will have an interest in business and finance, a good work ethic and be keen to learn and develop a technical skill set.

**Barclays Europe**

We’ve had a presence in Europe almost as long as there’s been a Barclays. So, we’re building on solid foundations, leveraging our embedded talent, in 10 locations across the region allowing us to draw on a wealth of local and regional insight.

**Working in Madrid**

Our office in Madrid delivers informed strategic advice, comprehensive financial solutions and risk management services, creating sophisticated strategies customised to meet our clients’ needs.

**Purpose of the role**

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the markets division providing insights and expertise that help senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.

**Accountabilities**
- Execution of small research projects, research to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with senior management to implement research findings for the global markets division.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
- Participation in training and development programmes to enhance skills and knowledge.
- Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for the global markets division.
- Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions.
- Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making in the global markets division.
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