Strategy Analyst Intern - Nottingham

Salary: £28,000 per annum plus a £1,000 joining bonus and other benefits

Location: Nottingham

Start date: 23rd June 2025 for 10 weeks (dates are fixed)

Eligibility: Open to any penultimate year university students (This includes undergraduates, masters and PhD students)

Sponsorship: We are open to those currently on student visas, as long as you can work unrestricted for the duration of the internship

Closing date: 31st March 2025 (subject to close early)

As we recruit on a rolling basis, we recommend applying as soon as you can.

Ten weeks to discover what our business is about. At Capital One, we’re on a mission: to change credit – one good thing at a time. You might think of us as a credit card company. But the truth is, we’re just as much a technology business. And we’re here to make a positive difference – to our customers, our colleagues and community. One of the happy consequences of making finance easier for our customers is that Capital One is an inspiring place to launch your career. Join us, and you can expect early responsibility as you take on meaningful work in collaborative teams.

We’ve got a great track record of hiring graduates and enabling them to reach their full potential. Just look at our CEO, Lucy Hagues. She started as a graduate and now leads the UK business. And that’s just one of many success stories. We are committed to creating teams that are representative of our customers and the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone, and would particularly love to hear from you if you identify with an under-represented group in our industry, such as women, the LGBTQ+ community and ethnic minority candidates.

Strategy Analysts at Capital One

Our Strategy teams are fundamental in how we drive the business forward, but most importantly, how we work with our customers. We do this by using insightful data analysis and critical judgement skills to solve problems.

On this ten-week programme, you’ll be based within one of our core Strategy teams and from Day 1 you’ll take a bird’s eye view of our organisation whilst owning a real life business project. You will help identify new ways to improve every aspect of what we do and put forward your suggestions on how we can achieve this by the end of your internship. Great training and support from the team around you will be provided to ensure you have all the tools required for success!

You will be within one of our core Strategy teams and the work could range from developing the right products that meet our customers needs, to finding innovative ways to attracting new customers, providing support and tools to help our customers manage their finances or protecting them from fraud. Alongside this, you will also be trained and developed on some coding and analytical tools - enabling you to really dig deep into the datasets. And this internship isn’t just about honing your technical skills. There’s plenty of scope for personal development too. You’ll be assigned a manager, mentor and buddy to support and advise you along the way.

What you’ll need

• We don’t mind what degree background you have, but we want to see your ability to identify solutions or opportunities using data and sound reasoning.
• You will have a strong aptitude for maths, and can apply problem solving and creative thinking to come up with suitable recommendations.
• You aren’t afraid to share your ideas and are regularly proactive and a self-starter.
• You’ll have strong written and verbal communication skills and above all, someone who thrives in a collaborative environment which means working well with others, whilst also being focused on growth and development – yours and ours.

The Recruitment Process

• Step 1: After your initial application, if you meet the eligibility criteria you will be sent out online testing to complete, which consists of a situational and strengths, and a numerical and verbal reasoning assessment.
• Step 2: Next up, you will be invited to complete a one way video interview.
• Step 3: You’ll get to (virtually) meet with one of our Strategy Analysts to complete a case study interview.
• Step 4: If you pass the case study interview you will then be invited to complete a product interview which will be held virtually.
• Step 5: The assessment day, which is held in person at our Nottingham Head Office consists of a group activity and final case interview, and if successful we’ll offer you a place on the programme!

What’s in it for you?

• Exciting (and diverse) opportunities for career development
• Outstanding learning and development through our Capital One Develop UK training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Core benefits including a pension scheme, bonus, generous holidays and private medical insurance
• Flexible benefits including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to support and inspire you, including a fully serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and games rooms
• Plenty of volunteering opportunities to give back to the community through our corporate social responsibility programmes
• Regular social events ran by our GradComm team, as well as an annual company-wide summer festival

Where and how you’ll work

This is a 10 week fixed term position and based in our Nottingham office. We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and can work from home on Monday and Friday. Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we’re open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right (and the smart) thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com. All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.