Register Your Interest - Risk Modelling Graduate Programme

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Register Your Interest - Risk Modelling Graduate Programme

• Salary: £33,500 
• Start Date: September 2025 
• Duration: 2 years 
• Location: Edinburgh 
• Requirements: To have, or be on course to achieving a 2:1 in a STEM subject for your degree (preferably in a strong numerical discipline)

Why Risk Modelling Specialism?

In Risk, our role is to make sure we're doing the right thing as an organisation - for our people and our customers. Risk management allows us to strike a balance between taking risks and reducing them.

It's our responsibility to manage risk across the bank, ensuring we have the right culture, strategy and rules in place. We also manage interactions with key regulators, providing trusted advice to the colleagues who serve our customers.

Our world-class graduate programme

As a graduate trainee Modelling Specialist in Risk, we’ll give you the best possible start to your career by equipping you with the knowledge, skills and experiences you’ll need to make a significant impact through your work.

Over the course of this two-year programme, you can expect to:

• Develop highly sought-after coding and modelling skills
• Explore new technology developments, emerging regulation and new strategic risks
• Discover how to analyse and interpret historical data
• Design, build and validate risk models
• Accelerate your risk modelling capability by studying towards a professional qualification
• Gain unique experience by delving into the world of credit risk, oversight and challenge
• Understand how to identify, analyse and report risks
• Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings

What’s in it for you?

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £33,500 a year. And on top of your salary, you’ll also have access to our flexible benefits package.

You can also look forward to:

• Benefiting from significant exposure to our executive committee
• Enriching your learning through our NatWest Group Academy
• Accelerating your business partnering and stakeholder management capability
• Mastering your ability to influence change and challenge the status quo
• Expanding your global professional network
• Growing your confidence, building your resilience, and elevating your presence
• Experiencing first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation

At the end of the programme, you’ll be well positioned to secure a job as a risk partner, conduct advisor, operational risk manager or credit risk analyst.

If you have a disability, health or mental health condition, or if you’re neurodivergent and adjustments would support you in your assessment(s), there’ll be opportunities to let us know throughout your application journey, just let us know what support we can give you.

We’ll have a confidential discussion and work with you to put in place any physical or non-physical adjustments you may need. Any information you share with us will only be used to make adjustments for your assessment(s) and we won’t share this information with anyone else.

About NatWest

NatWest Group is a relationship bank for a digital world. We champion potential; breaking down barriers and building financial confidence so the 19 million people, families and businesses we serve throughout the UK and Ireland can rebuild and thrive. If our customers succeed, so will we.

You may recognise some of our many brands, NatWest Group is the umbrella we all sit under, but this also includes The Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Coutts, Adam & Company, Ulster Bank, Lombard and many more.