Quantitative Analytics Associate Graduate Programme 2026 London – UK Visa Sponsorship

Apply for the Barclays graduate programme London and start your career in quantitative analytics, finance, and data science in the UK. Our graduate programs give students hands-on experiences, life-changing growth, and amazing support, all of which help them start their careers on the right foot. You will always be learning. You’ll get better and better every day, whether you take a custom course or one of our e-learning courses. No matter whatever program you choose, you’ll do important work, find resources to help you establish a long-term career, and improve your skills with the support of a hand-picked line manager and a dedicated talent coach.

Why should you join the Quantitative Analytics Associate Graduate Program? Our top-notch team offers model building, analytics, and useful quantitative guidance to businesses all over the country. If you apply to our program, you could join one of our speciality teams, such as:

• Markets Quants: The team directly helps the bank’s Capital Markets business and is made up of specialised modellers and developers. Team members are in charge of finding new ways to employ quantitative models for front-office pricing, valuation adjustments, and managing credit risk across all asset classes, including market and counter-party credit risk. They also have to test, implement, and support these models.

You will get a lot of experience with different financial engineering modelling approaches and market instruments that can assist drive business strategy by joining a group that works with trading, structuring, and risk management across the bank. It is made up of data scientists, developers, data engineers, and researchers. The team works directly with the bank’s Finance, Treasury, Fraud Surveillance, Stress Testing, Climate Risk, and Wholesale and Retail Credit Risk departments.

Team members come up with ways to create, test, put into action, and support all statistical and econometric models for figuring out default probabilities, recovery rates, exposures at default, forecasting models for net revenue, balance sheet projections, scenario generation/expansion, operational risk, climate change, economic capital models, and machine learning models for fraud detection. They do this while using the newest model development methods and technological advancements.

The chance to make a difference: As a Quantitative Analytics Graduate, your time at Barclays will start with several weeks of intensive training. This training will include product and business knowledge as well as other skills you’ll need to get off to a good start. After training, you’ll work on ongoing projects alongside coworkers at a dedicated desk. This will give you a lot of chances to learn and improve.

The Barclays Quantitative Analytics team is made up of highly skilled modellers and developers from all over the world who are in charge of researching, creating, testing, implementing, and supporting all quantitative models used for valuing and managing risk across all asset classes.

Who we want: To be eligible for this program, you must have finished (or be in your last year of) a postgraduate degree, such as a Master’s or higher, in a technical field like Physics, Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Economics, Statistics, Calculus, Computer Science, or another STEM subject. You should also have:

• Skills in math and programming, preferably in C++ or Python
• Being able to think logically and solve problems
• Good in talking to people and working with them
• English is spoken and written fluently.
• A desire to learn about the banking sector, financial services business, and capital markets

Barclays will look at applications from people who need a visa to work in the UK.

Living and working in London: Our worldwide headquarters is the place to be if you appreciate the excitement of city life. Canary Wharf, in the middle of London’s financial center, is where our London hub is. Not only will you be at the right spot to see the capital of the country, but you’ll also be in a place where you can see all the different ways a global financial powerhouse works and what it can do.

If you’re good with technology, you’ll get more out of your tech career by working with other smart people on game-changing ideas that are revolutionising the way money works in the future.

What the job is for: To help the Quantitative Analytics (QA) group run smoothly every day by giving them analytical insights and expertise that will help our business leaders and stakeholders make smart choices, back up current trading strategies, come up with new product strategies and services, and find new market opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Use the newest quantitative methods to solve business challenges, come up with new models and solutions, and strengthen the bank’s computing and data infrastructure.
• Working with people from different departments and high management to get business projects forward.
• Taking part in training and development programs to learn new things and improve your abilities.
• Do research to help make strategic decisions, write reports and presentations to share research results, and work with senior management to put research results into action.
• Design and build the framework for quantitative research using languages that are specific to the field.
• Taking part in the technological design and development of the worldwide team’s quantitative research platforms, research notebooks, and products.
• Teaching and guiding less experienced coworkers.

What the Assistant Vice President Should Do:

• Give guidance to People Leaders to help them solve problems that have gotten worse.
• Finding strategies to lower risk and creating new rules and processes to support the control and governance agenda.
• Be responsible for managing risk and making controls stronger in respect to the job that is done.
• Do work that is closely related to work done in other areas.
• Work with other parts of the business to make sure that support departments are up to date on business activity and the business plan.
• To address problems in a creative and successful way, you need to do complicated analysis of data from a variety of sources, both internal and external.
• Talk about complicated things.
• Convince or persuade stakeholders to get the results you want.

All employees should show that they live by the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. These values guide us in doing what we think is right. They will also need to show the Barclays Mindset, which is our operating guideline for how we act. It includes “Empower, Challenge, and Drive.”

What you get back: No matter how high you rise at Barclays, we think that all of our workers should get a competitive package of core benefits that can be changed to match your and your family’s needs. At Barclays, you’ll help our customers and clients, and we’ll help you with benefits that will really make a difference. Paid time off for holidays and vacations.

Location: 174 High Street, North London, E6 2JA, United Kingdom.