Wealth, Asset Management - Internship

Why Asset Management?

Our Wealth businesses are comprised of Coutts and Affluent, and our strategy focuses on not only providing competitive day-to-day banking, but helping clients reduce their household debt and build longer term investments.

With over 330 years of history, Coutts has defined the Private Banking sector not just as a bank, but a wealth business that prides itself on expertise and experience.

Affluent comprises of NatWest Premier, Specialist Advice & Investment Services, and the contact centres that support them. Affluent is a relatively new business area and aims to support some of NatWest Group’s wealthiest customers with excellent service and advice.

The Asset Management Centre of Excellence, within Coutts, was established to provide investment products and services to NatWest Group customers. As an asset manager, we are responsible for the allocation, management, and oversight of capital to create long-term value for our customers.

Our world-class summer internship

Our Asset Management 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 Asset Management 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’ll have the opportunity to work from either our Bristol or London based offices, focussing on a number of asset management related activities.

During the programme, you will:

• Be assigned a placement within an asset management discipline
• Accelerate your asset management capability
• Gain a unique insight into the structure and purpose of our Asset Management business
• Explore investment solutions that grow and protect our clients' assets and remove or simplify the barriers to investing
• Build an understanding of how to reduce climate-related impacts through our investments
• Develop relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and senior leaders across Asset Management

In addition, you’ll benefit from:

• Seeing first-hand how we work together as one bank to deliver outstanding service for our customers
• Learning about our culture, values, and goals
• Attending training workshops and getting involved with our day-to-day work
• Exploring your capability by taking part in a business improvement project

How you’ll benefit

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £24,000 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 Asset Management 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 keen interest in investments
• An appetite for continuous learning
• To be change-ready
• Collaboration skills
• A creative approach to problem-solving