Internships at Blackfinch
We offer a 10-week internship placement throughout the summer period.
Why the Blackfinch Summer Intern programme?
As an intern within Blackfinch, you will engage in projects that offer a comprehensive overview of our business. Internships are offered in a number of different departments within Blackfinch such as:
Property Investments
Energy Investments
Data Insights
Ventures
Investments and Dealing
Risk and Compliance
You will be able to state your desired area during the application process, enabling you to forge connections and explore new horizons on your 10-week journey with us.
Blackfinch interns will find out that Financial Services is a fascinating, challenging and rewarding industry to work in.
You may undertake activities such as:
- Updating, maintaining and managing operational valuation models, sourcing and validating data within our renewables team
- Research on new lending opportunities and property industry trends.
- Contributing to the creation and reporting of management information, including analysing property loan book metrics and key data trends.
- Sourcing deal flow through accelerators, universities and research platforms.
- Be involved in research calls with founders of the UK’s brightest startups, for our ventures team.
- Writing investment summaries and portfolio company reports.
- Preparing commentary, statistics and analysis for various marketing and reporting literature.
- Crafting compelling content across marketing channels
- Support with designing and developing innovative products and solutions using the latest technology with the Engineering team.
- Conducting compliance monitoring activity in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Plan
Eligibility:
- We welcome students from degree disciplines such as finance, computer science, operations, research, applied mathematics, statistics, software engineering, business, or related field of study.
- Applications are encouraged from team players with strong academic and extracurricular achievements, analytical minds with strong numeracy and attention to detail.
- The confidence and initiative to take on early responsibility and manage your own projects under expert guidance.
- Proficiency in MS Word and Excel
- Have the legal right to work in the UK.
How do I apply?
We will open the application process at the start of each financial year for four Interns to join us from June to September for students who wish to build skills, expand knowledge, and embark on a career within financial services.
When the Summer Internship Programme advert goes live on our careers page, you will be asked to complete an application form, answer a number of questions and send us a video application telling us in around three minutes why you believe this would be a good fit.
You might like to share with us something about yourself, your extra-curricular activities, the reason for your application to our Internship programme at Blackfinch, the contribution you hope to make to Blackfinch and what you expect to achieve from this Internship.
Short listed candidates will be required to attend interviews via Microsoft teams initially, with a potential final stage interview being in person at our Gloucester Office.
Blackfinch is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious practice or any other perceived differences. A copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy is available on request - please use the contact us page.
