Client - Citi Research, Summer Analyst, London - United Kingdom, 2026

About the role

You’re ready to bring your knowledge from the classroom to the boardroom, and Citi wants to help you get there. Whether it’s honing your skills or building your network, we know that success can’t come without growth. Our programmes equip you with the knowledge and training you need to play a valuable role on your team and establish a long‑term career here. At Citi, we value internal mobility, and career growth is not a question of if, but when.

Summer Internship

Citi’s Client organization is looking for a Summer Intern to join the Research team in London June‑August 2026 for 10 weeks. Citi provides world‑class products and financing solutions for corporations, governments, and institutional and retail investors through our dominant underwriting capabilities. Our global platform, broad product knowledge and on‑the‑ground local markets expertise coupled with complementary strengths in technology and distribution allows us to offer clients a wide range of comprehensive financial solutions. We address their needs by leveraging our products in currencies, sectors, geographies and asset classes; given the unparalleled breadth and depth of our global platform, Citi is able to consistently provide clients with innovative solutions regardless of complexity.

Your responsibilities

• Working with a team covering a specific industry or macro area for the entirety of the summer, including involvement in the day‑to‑day responsibilities of an intern.
• Develop a thorough understanding of financial markets.
• Learn to identify and analyse trends with the goal of producing cutting edge research and actionable recommendations.
• Learn to collect, outline and explain information giving insights that drive creative solutions.
• Take on various projects the team assigns.
• Create, update and maintain economic or financial spreadsheets, quantitative models and databases of assigned companies.
• Refresh marketing handouts and assist with ad‑hoc client requests.
• Shadow Analysts by attending company and industry meetings as well as industry conferences.

What we look for

• You are due to graduating in Summer 2027.
• On course to achieve a 2.1 at undergraduate level in any degree discipline.
• You are creative in solving problems and are intellectually curious.
• You are hard‑working and diligent.
• You are enthusiastic, quick‑thinking and able to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• You are confident and comfortable with clients and articulate in oral and written communication.
• You are focused on achieving the group and client objectives.
• You are detail‑oriented.

Ideal fit

• A highly ethical and honest individual who is prepared to provide accurate and independent analysis.
• A quick learner, who assimilates facts quickly, processes a great deal of detailed information, organizes it, puts it into useful form, and remembers it well.
• Enthusiasm, eagerness to take off, advance quickly, and assume more responsibility.
• Extremely entrepreneurial, with exceptional attention to detail.
• A natural communicator, both verbal and written, who builds strong relationships.
• An ability to stay calm and work under pressure.
• A creative thinker who is also highly numerate.
• A teamwork ethic that drives success from every individual.

Certification requirements

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime. The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016. Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role. Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

• Honesty, integrity and reputation.
• Financial soundness.
• Competence and capability.

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above. This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self‑disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

Application Deadline

Friday 13th February 2026.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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