Compliance Summer Analyst Review

I worked in the Business Oversight Compliance team and I mainly dealt with anti-money launderign. My team and I analyzed issues that arised internally with the aim to define whether they were to be considered as policy breaches and to take all of the necessary steps to solve them. This involves writing reports and constantly update all of the people involved by the issue.

In terms of soft skills, I got more and more comfortable in actively participating in meetings and I surely honed my teamworking. Moreover, I significantly improved my PowerPoint and Outlook skills. As regards hard skills, I had the chance to learn in an unbelievably quick and effective way all of the information necessary to work in an Anti-Money Laundering.

Barclays counts more than 80,000 employees, so I think it is necessary to put things into perspective. Differently from a small company or a startup, where the output of your work might be key to important decision-making since from day 1, at Barclays they ease you into it. I was given responsibilities regarding the internal functioning of the team operations, i.e., arrange meetings or give small update presentations.

Barclays provides its employees and, especially, interns with endless support. For any single thing that was not clear to me, I could contact a team or a person that would help me through it. There are always people available to give you useful advice and they generally encourage you to ask for it.

The general atmosphere was more easygoing than one would expect from an international bank. The company culture is incredibly inclusive for anybody.

I truly enjoyed working at Barclays. It was nice to wake up in the morning knowing that I was going to spend another day with my team and my line manager because I got along very well with all of them. Moreover, I experienced how exciting it is to feel to be learning something new every single day.

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I would recommend that they make sure they are applying for a position they are truly interested in and at least minimally knowledgeable about. I reckon that the business-specific part of the final interview might turn out to be quite tough if you have little to no idea about what the position you applied for actually is.