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Milan, Italy

Banking Off Cycle Internship Programme 2026 Milan

Internship
Finance
Finance
Posted:
December 28, 2025

Barclays

Personal and corporate banking
76.1
Palpable Score
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Job description

Off-Cycle Internship Overview


Join us on an Off-Cycle Internship for 3-6 months working within our Investment Banking, Markets, Corporate Banking or Quantitative Analytics business areas. Immerse yourself in our work and culture and gain invaluable insights into life as a Full-time Analyst with this longer internship.

Why the Banking Off-Cycle intern Programme?
Feel the pace of international finance as you get involved in delivering financial advisory, capital raising, financing and risk management services to clients worldwide. Our bankers advise on everything from privatisations and mergers and acquisitions to debt and equity financings and restructuring. Want in? Apply to become an Off-Cycle Analyst.

As an Off-Cycle Analyst, you’ll be surprised by what you can achieve. This is a unique opportunity to work within one of our Banking teams for an extended period of time, with longer exposure to projects compared to a summer internship. This allows you to truly immerse yourself in our work and culture and gain invaluable insight. You'll have ample opportunities to expand your horizons across different sectors and products within Banking, and across the Investment Bank as a whole. The internship programme will provide you with the support and networking opportunities you need to find your place in our world.

You may also work on projects that include:

• Financial analysis and modelling
• Valuation
• Industry research
• Client due diligence
• Developing written materials, including offering memoranda and new business presentations.


Investment Banking at Barclays
Barclays is one of the world’s top-tier investment banks. We are one of the only non-US, full-service rivals to the biggest US investment banks. And being headquartered in Europe gives us a unique advantage. We think and act differently. From Hong Kong to Houston, and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, everyone at Barclays enjoys a real sense of purpose, because they work for a business that fosters innovation, champions sustainability, and deploys finance responsibly for the common good and the long term. We provide comprehensive financial advisory, capital raising, financing and risk management services to corporations, governments and financial institutions worldwide.  We take an integrated approach to client coverage, providing access to bankers who have industry and geography specific expertise across all investment banking products.

Who we're looking for

To be considered for this programme, you must be in your penultimate or final year of your degree - in any discipline. Language requirements: fluent in English and Italian.


Ideally, you'll have a keen interest in finance and business. We value resourcefulness, teamwork, enthusiasm and an entrepreneurial spirit, all of which might be showcased through your involvement in extracurricular activities.

The location for this role is indicated in the job title, and you will be based at that location. If you are accepted into our graduate programme, your base location will be the same as it was during your internship.

Barclays Europe

We’ve had a presence in Europe almost as long as there’s been a Barclays. So, we’re building on solid foundations, leveraging our embedded talent, in 10 locations across the region allowing us to draw on a wealth of local and regional insight.

Working in Milan

Capital of the Lombardy region and second Italian city after Rome, Milan is located in the heart of the Po Valley, bathed by several rivers (Olona, Seveso, Lambro) and crossed by artificial canals (navigli), we are based at Via Broletto 4, where you will be part of our international finance team, where our services encompass delivering financial advisory, capital raising, financing and risk management services to clients worldwide.

Purpose of the role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the investment banking division. Gain broad exposure to different typed of clients, transactions and focus on specialist areas.

Accountabilities

Analyst Expectations

About the company

Barclays

Company overview
Barclays is a multinational bank and financial services group with major businesses in UK retail banking and international corporate and investment banking. Barclays serves consumers, small businesses, corporates, and institutional clients through products like lending, payments, cards, markets, and wealth services. Barclays also runs large technology, operations, and data teams that build and maintain banking platforms at scale. Barclays is headquartered in London and operates globally.

Locations and presence

Barclays has major UK hubs including London (Canary Wharf), Glasgow, Manchester, Knutsford (Radbroke), and Northampton, alongside a wide international footprint. Barclays has tightened office attendance expectations in recent years, with public reporting describing a minimum three-days-a-week in-office baseline for many roles, while client-facing teams can be more office-heavy.

Palpable Score

76.1
/ 100
Barclays gives graduates and students multiple reliable entry points through internships, a structured graduate programme (Explorer and Expert paths), apprenticeships, and an earlier Discovery programme. The main downside is that, despite clear official stage descriptions, candidate communication and closure can still feel uneven at scale. Learning support and early-career community design are strong, while published outcome metrics like conversion rates and time-to-promotion are still limited.
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