Investment Banking: Origination & Advisory Graduate Programme 2025

Type: Graduate
Region: London

The Deutsche Bank Graduate Programme  is a year-long comprehensive programme designed to provide you with exposure to a range of fascinating projects and ongoing professional and technical training to develop the skills you need to grow your career. You’ll feel supported by a network of peers and mentors and benefit from our global wellbeing programme.

About the division

Our Corporate Finance business provides the full range of advisory and financing products and services of a leading global investment bank. Our clients include large-cap and mid-cap corporates, financial institutions, governments, government agencies and financial sponsors. 

We recognise that selecting the right investment banking partner can be the key to a company’s success. Our relationships are enhanced by industry sector, country and regional expertise, closely aligned to high-quality client solutions. We offer both buyside and sell side advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, restructuring advisory, debt and equity capital raising services (including our dedicated Environmental Social Governance (ESG) solutions) and structured equity transactions. We advise on innovative cross-border and regional transactions in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific.

About the role

You’ll work on projects that find new ways to help our clients reach their financial goals. Your day-to-day tasks will vary depending on your role; you might be modelling and forecasting a client’s financial statements, valuing a company, preparing marketing materials for a client pitch or for an equity or debt issue. Your learning curve will be steep as you get involved in current deals and interact with clients, you’ll enjoy plenty of support from managers and mentors, along with unparalleled global exposure. 

You will be trained by the best, evolve professionally as well as personally, and build a firm foundation upon which to specialise later. 

Areas in which you could work

• Industry Groups 
• Product Groups

What we look for

We recruit students and graduates who are intelligent and adaptable with excellent communication skills. They have degrees in many different disciplines. Even though good levels of numeracy are important for some roles, you won’t necessarily need a formal mathematical or financial background. Our comprehensive training programme will give you all the technical knowledge you’ll need to build a career with us.  

To be eligible for the 2025 Graduate Programme you must  

• Complete your studies (all final exams, coursework and have no outstanding requirements for graduation) between 1st January 2024 and 31st July 2025.  
• Be able to start full time work in July 2025, subject to local working legislation and visa requirements.  
• You should also be on track for a 2:1 or First (or equivalent) in your undergraduate degree.
• Possess no more than 12 months full-time, relevant work experience. 
• For some placements within Origination and Advisory, in addition to English, fluency in a European language is desirable.

Benefits and wellbeing

Feeling healthy, engaged and well-supported, enables us to do our best work and get the most out of life outside of the office. That’s why Deutsche Bank is committed to providing benefits and programmes centred around wellbeing. Benefits & Wellbeing – Deutsche Bank Careers (db.com)