Summer 2026 Internship

Join us as a 2026 Summer Intern and discover the world of finance and investments. Blackfinch Group is an award-winning investment specialist with over 20 years of investment track record. We work in partnership with advisers, covering tax-efficient solutions, early-stage investing, managed portfolio services, property financing, and renewable energy. We are proud to be entrusted with over £950 million in assets under management.

As an intern within Blackfinch, you will engage in projects that offer a comprehensive overview of our business. You will work within one of our departments, which could include Investment, Operations, Support, Sales & Distribution, or IT & Engineering teams, depending on your area of interest. This 10-week journey starts on Monday 22nd June 2026. We have vacancies for four interns who wish to join us during the summer of 2026 to build skills, expand knowledge, and embark on a career within financial services.

Blackfinch interns will find that Financial Services is a fascinating, challenging, and rewarding industry to work in. You may undertake activities such as:

• Updating, maintaining, and managing operational valuation models, sourcing and validating data within our renewables team.
• Research on new lending opportunities and property industry trends.
• Contributing to the creation and reporting of management information, including analysing property loan book metrics and key data trends.
• Sourcing deal flow through accelerators, universities, and research platforms.
• Be involved in research calls with founders of the UK’s brightest startups for our ventures team.
• Writing investment summaries and portfolio company reports.
• Preparing commentary, statistics, and analysis for various marketing and reporting literature.
• Support with designing and developing innovative products and solutions using the latest technology with the Engineering team.
• Conducting compliance monitoring activity in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Plan.

To be considered for this programme, you must currently be pursuing an undergraduate degree with an anticipated graduation in 2027, or you may have recently graduated. Ideally, you will also have:

• A passion and enthusiasm to work in financial services.
• Customer-orientation, resilience, drive, and spirit.
• Take pride in a job well done.
• Students from degree disciplines such as finance, computer science, operations, research, applied mathematics, statistics, software engineering, business, or related fields are welcome.
• Strong academic and extracurricular achievements, analytical minds with strong numeracy and attention to detail.
• The confidence and initiative to take on early responsibility and manage your own projects under expert guidance.
• Proficiency in MS Word and Excel.
• Legal right to work in the UK.

To apply for this role, please submit a video application telling us in around three minutes why you believe this would be a good fit. Your application will not be considered without your additional video submission. You might like to share something about yourself, your extra-curricular activities, the reason for your application to our Internship programme at Blackfinch, the contribution you hope to make, and what you expect to achieve from this Internship. Please upload a video to YouTube and submit your link, ensuring your name and “Blackfinch Internship Programme” is stated in the subject.

The closing date for this role will be Friday 3rd April 2026. We anticipate receiving a large number of applications for this exciting opportunity. We will endeavour to contact everyone who has applied; however, this may take some time as we process the applications. Please ensure you provide your full name, correspondence address, email address, and phone numbers when you submit your application. Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend interviews via MS Teams initially, with a potential final stage interview being in person at our Cheltenham Office.

Blackfinch is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious practice, or any other perceived differences. A copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy is available upon request. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.