Coverage Banking Intern Germany 2027

About the Position

Coverage Banking Internship Programme 2027

Join our Coverage Banking team and gain first-hand experience supporting some of the world’s leading corporates, financial institutions, investors and public sector clients. As part of the client-facing arm of Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), you’ll work alongside experienced bankers to help deliver integrated banking solutions, build client relationships and support strategic growth opportunities across markets. With our unique international footprint, you’ll gain exposure to cross-border business, global clients and real-world banking challenges. You’ll work across teams, products and geographies while developing the commercial, analytical and relationship-building skills that underpin a successful career in banking. Join us if you’re curious about how businesses grow, how financial markets operate and how trusted client relationships are built.

Responsibilities

• Support relationship teams managing multinational corporations, large local corporates and mid-market clients.
• Gain exposure to financing solutions, transaction banking, capital markets activities and strategic client engagement.
• Work with teams covering banks, insurance companies, asset managers, sovereign entities and other financial institutions.
• Gain insight into how financial institutions access financing, manage risk and utilise the Bank’s global capabilities to support their businesses.
• Support research, analysis and deal execution activities while learning how clients navigate transformational business decisions.

Requirements

• Be a penultimate year student.
• Able to intern in June 2027 and start full time in July 2028.
• Have the permanent legal right to work in Germany.
• Take ownership and show initiative.
• Think critically and solve problems using logic and sound judgement.
• Learn quickly, stay curious and seek opportunities to grow.
• Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others.
• Adapt and perform in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate commercial curiosity and an interest in clients, industries and global markets.
• Communicate confidently and work effectively across different cultures and backgrounds.

We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

About the Company

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term.