Graduates’ Programme 2025

About the Graduates’ Programme:
The BNP Paribas Graduates’ Programme is an exciting opportunity for recent graduates who are eager to start a career in the dynamic world of Banking and Finance. At BNP Paribas, we believe in nurturing and empowering the next generation of leaders to drive innovation and success in the global financial industry.

The Graduates’ Programme 2025 starts on 1 September.

BNP Paribas Graduates’ Programme highlights:

- Permanent contracts with BNP Paribas, with access to several benefits
- During the first 12 months, the Graduates will complete different professional development assignments across 2 different teams, within the same Business Area

We are recruiting one Graduate to integrate the Global Credit - Credit 360 Team, within the Global Markets Front Office Business Area.

About the Business Area:
Global Markets is BNP Paribas’ capital markets business within Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB), delivering solutions across asset classes, and industry-leading services for clients including Institutional, corporate, private banks and retail distribution networks. Our Portugal Platform (Porto and Lisbon) is a major HUB in Europe and certainly unique in the country by its size and its scope of activity, with all Front Office roles present (Trading, Sales, Research, Structuring, Quant & Engineering, Business Dev and Support, Marketing & Client Support, Risk Management, Data Analytics and Machine Learning ). We are growing fast with the ambition to become even more relevant for the worldwide activity, which presents many short and long-term opportunities.

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About the Team:
Within Global Markets, Global Credit is responsible for the primary (new issuance) and secondary trading of corporate (fins and non-fins) debt and related instruments such as CDS, indices, options and structured products. It comprises different roles such as syndicate, debt capital markets, trading, sales, structuring and Credit360 which includes desk analysts and desk strategists.

The Credit 360 Team is part of Global Credit and is responsible for the in-depth fundamental credit analysis of corporates and sectors, monitoring of trading risk, generation of trade ideas, marketing of trade ideas and views on the market to institutional investors via regular write-ups.

About the Credit 360 Graduate Role:
Work with the team located in Lisbon and London in its effort to build a more quantitative infrastructure to support the analysis of sectors/companies/the credit market:

- Maintain, enhance, and develop market data infrastructure to support trade idea generation (e.g., analysis of time series and static data on a variety of products - cash bonds, CDS, indices and CDS indices)
- Develop tools to support and enhance the trade idea generation process
- Automate tools, especially legacy ones (e.g. based on spreadsheets) to free-up workload and workflow from credit strategists
- Work with quants to ensure data maintenance, reliability and accessibility by making sure all processes are automated and batched appropriately
- Develop new tools and approach to credit analysis making use of innovative techniques (Machine Learning, web scrapping, sentiment analysis, news flows analysis, document analysis, etc)
- Build back testing infrastructure with the intent to test a variety on trading signals
- Drive projects that bring technological innovation to traditional credit research
- Help with presentations and publications, help with clients, trading and sales requests

About the Graduate’ Profile and Skills:

- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or Equivalent
- Very good knowledge of coding in Python, VBA, BQL, SQL, others may be helpful too
- Knowledge on data analysis/time series analysis (e.g., regression, Machine Learning)
- Interest in data analysis / financial analysis; Knowledge of finance is a bonus
- Strong Analytical quantitative and problem-solving skills
- Ability to learn quickly, reliability and capacity to deliver
- Attention to detail, rigor and ability to raise problems immediately to the broader team when necessary
- Excellent fluency in English
- Availability for a full-time permanent position from 1 September 2025
- Maximum of 2 years of working experience (including internships)

Why joining BNP Paribas?
- Leading banking institution

BNP Paribas is a leader in the Eurozone, and a prominent international banking institution with strong roots in Europe’s banking history. It has a presence in 65 countries, with around 190 000 Employees - including more than 145 000 in Europe.
- Our presence in Portugal

Since 1985, BNP Paribas was one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, the Group has around 7.100 employees across several entities operating directly in the territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.
- International