Treasury Funding and Investments Review

by Barclays

Best Student Employer

Rating

3.9/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    2.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • - Analysing data: collecting information on market colour, taking online modules on relevant topics, adding value to the team by creating excel sheets that automate processes - Coffee chats with team members, senior members of the team, as well as with the wider office - Projects include: analysing and finding differences in the Banking Book, pulling data from Bloomberg to create a tool to analyse FX swaps and implied rates, collecting and analysing data to look at market colour for issuances of structured notes in the Euro Area


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • - Financial markets knowledge, Excel, Bloomberg, teamwork, interpersonal


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • A lot from my team, not much from HR


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Company culture is very intense, but everyone is nice if you approach them


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 1/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Enjoyable because I learned a lot


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Barclays
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Barclays to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
  • Be personable and interested


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

August 2023


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