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We’re a FTSE 250 company with a forty year history of being a market leader in our field. Our aim is to become the default choice for active traders globally, supported by over 2,000 staff located across the world offering over 10,000 products to our clients base.
Our graduate programme is a great opportunity to learn and develop in a company repeatedly certified as one of Britain’s top employers.
For more information on what we do, check out our home page, and for what it’s like to work for us, check out our Twitter and LinkedIn pages!
Programme description
By joining IG as a Graduate Trainee you will spend 18 months developing a keen understanding of our clients, products and business.
Your initial IG experience will be in our Trading Services team. This will be an exciting and insightful 6 months when you will understand how the business works. During this time you will have opportunity to converse with our clients about financial markets and our latest innovations, platforms and products (i.e. CFDs, Spread betting, Share dealing etc.) and learn to support them with any trade related queries.
After successfully learning about our business, products and clients alongside our colleagues in Trading Services, you will move around IG to broaden your understanding and apply your skills in other areas. You will gain exposure across our business which could involve rotations in:
- Operations
- Trading
- Risk
- Compliance
- Product Development
- Client Management
Career development
During the graduate programme you will have access to:
- a variety of practical hands-on experiences in multiple disciplines
- formal training sessions on our products and clients
- a support network of people with significant experience in their field
- opportunities to further your professional and personal development (communication, presentation, prioritisation, career development)
- On successful completion of the graduate programme you’ll have the opportunity to learn and expand your skill set by applying for a new role in the wider Group according to your strengths, preferences, and available vacancies - graduates who have made a positive contribution to the business will be rewarded and offered clear paths to progress.
We’re looking for people with a real passion for delivering business outcomes.
It is important that you have:
- a good grounding in finance, economics or maths
- an interest in financial markets
- recently graduated with a degree level education of 2:1 of higher
People who recognise the below attributes in themselves would also be very suitable:
- Numerate: is confident with arithmetic under pressure, and is skilled and comfortable working with numbers
- Analytical: enjoys spotting opportunities, risks, patterns, discrepancies and trends in data
- Decisive: confident when making decisions quickly, with the character to take responsibility no matter what happens
- Personable: able to instil a feeling of trust and support in clients and colleagues and can relay complex issues and ideas simply and with ease
For this role you will need native-level English. One or more of these languages is also desirable: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), Romanian, Portuguese and Arabic.
Recruitment process
Review of your application Online assessment (interview + online game) Discovery Day – final stage when you’ll go through various exercises and meet plenty of amazing IG people
Our work and office culture
You’ll work and socialise with like-minded people with opportunities to join employee networks, teams and make use of IG’s charity fund.
We want you to enjoy your time here and be proud to count the people you work with as friends. Our global social committees run events and activities to make life at IG even more fun and rewarding. Including
- Monthly socials with free refreshments
- Large annual parties
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Black, Women’s, and Parents & Carers networks
- Fund matching for your charitable endeavours
- Sports teams and sponsorship tie-ins
- 2 additional days leave a year for voluntary work
Come to work in a comfortable, state of the art office containing all the things you need to succeed. Each of us works from laptops, at agile, ergonomic workstations designed to support our roles. Our spacious, open-plan offices provide a modern, dynamic setting for you to excel.
