Corporate Banking Traineeship

YOUR JOB IN A NUTSHELL

Are you intrigued by the world of banking for companies? Do you have a thirst for knowledge and are you eager to learn? Embark on our Corporate Banking Traineeship, offering a fast-track opportunity to develop the necessary skills and acquire the required knowledge to start a career in the corporate banking world.

AND IN DETAIL

This traineeship is an immersive 12-month rotational program within the BNP Paribas Fortis Corporate Bank, starting in September 2025. This program gives you the chance to experience different functions across selected departments of the business (regional Business Centres & expertise lines). Throughout your training period, you will be encouraged to uncover and enhance your individual strengths through a tailored learning program.

• During this traineeship, you will learn how the bank develops long-term relationships with its clients and how it accompanies them in managing the risks and needs they are facing. You will build up skills necessary for developing a client relationship.
• You will also develop technical skills in different expertise lines in banking products and services (e.g. answering working capital needs, long term financing needs through various means like bank loans, hedging of currency and interest rates risks).
• Upon completion of the program, you'll have the chance to enter your first position within Corporate Banking in a client-facing position. 
• By participating in this program, you will quickly acquire the skills needed to start a diverse and fascinating career within corporate banking.

YOUR TALENTS AND COMPETENCES 

• Your approach is always filled with positivity, and you naturally take the lead with enthusiasm.
• You are able to quickly adapt to change, showcasing a gentle persistence and an open-minded spirit.
• You thrive in collaborative settings, gently leading others with a clear potential for leadership.
• Your thinking style combines a subtle balance of analysis, logic, and innovative ideas, contributing to well-rounded solutions.
• You have confident oral and written communication skills in French or Dutch (with good knowledge of the 2nd national language) and you have a good knowledge of business English.
• You have earned your finance or business related Master’s degree (at the latest in August 2025) and have a maximum of 2 years of work experience.

Recruitment process 

• After careful review of your application, you might be invited to a first round of interviews. If this first step is positive, you will be invited in Brussels to participate to an assessment that should take place before the end of May 2025. 
• This traineeship will start in September 2025.

WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER

OUR IMPACT

We strongly believe in the positive impact that the financial sector can have on the world. BNP Paribas Fortis offers sustainable and responsible investment products and solutions and encourages social entrepreneurship. Together with our customers, we are working towards a better future every day.

YOUR CAREER PERSPECTIVES

The departments that make up BNP Paribas Fortis cover a wide range of activities. You will therefore have many opportunities for “horizontal” and “vertical” career development.

OUR OFFER
In addition to your remuneration and benefits (meal vouchers, insurance, holidays), we offer flexible salary options, allowing you to convert part of your salary into personalised benefits (phone use, IT equipment, transport, etc.).

What can we offer you?

• A permanent contract and an attractive remuneration package. 
• The opportunity to be onboarded in a dynamic and accelerated career path by meeting a diversity of profiles, allowing to expand your own network and gain access to the capabilities of the BNP Paribas Group.
• The opportunities to develop your soft skills through a wide range of training courses, workshops and webinars for you to choose from depending on your availability, interests and goals, complemented by coaching and mentoring.

OUR ENGAGEMENT

At BNP Paribas Fortis, we want to attract and retain all talent, whatever their gender, age, background or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether they are living with a disability, as every person has their own experiences and their own identity. All of our full-time vacancies are also open to candidates wishing to work on an 80% or 90% full-time equivalent basis. 

If the function is categorized as a banking services provider function (cf. Law of 22 April 2019 establishing an oath and a disciplinary regime for the banking sector), you will also need to provide us with a 'certificate of absence of professional ban' from the FSMA confirming that you are not professionally disqualified.

TEMPTED BY THE CHALLENGE?

A first selection is made based on your CV and motivation letter. Are we convinced that you are the right candidate? Then we will contact you.

Good luck!

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