2023 NAB Graduate Program – Markets (Feb 2023)

Join us on the 2023 NAB Graduate Program where you’ll be supported, to build a career you’re passionate about. 

Our program commences in February 2023 and you’ll complete a rotational program designed to give you broad experience, introducing you to all aspects of life at one of Australia’s largest and most successful financial institutions. 

Our program offers: 

• Rotations and experiences in genuine roles, doing real work.
• A four-week secondment to a business area of your choice.
• Opportunities to get involved in enterprise-wide projects, initiatives, and resource groups.
• Opportunities to create positive social impact via community and customer engagement projects.
• Learning and development opportunities aligned to building critical skills for the future of work.
• Access to NAB’s Career Qualified in Banking Accreditation and Leadership Program.
• Ongoing coaching, mentoring and exposure to senior leaders.
• Networking events to help you build your profile and organisational connections.
• A strong graduate cohort
• Support to find a permanent role in your chosen field upon completion of the program.

Join our Markets Team

Our Markets team utilise Sales, Trading and Research expertise to provide local and offshore customers access to both traded and illiquid markets, including fixed income, money markets, credit, derivatives, currencies and commodities. 

Our business covers every segment of the corporate and investor markets, from global supranational through to High Net Worth customers looking to build their investment portfolio. 

We’re looking for disciplined graduates who have a passion for building a career in areas like trading, sales, economic research or quantitative research. Graduates who are great communicators, enjoy solving quantitative problems, are comfortable working with numbers or code to find a solution and are looking for a high level of personal ownership. Graduates who want to be part of a dynamic environment where learning agility, attention to detail, complex problem solving and confidence are paramount.

Below are examples of specialist teams where you may complete a rotation. 

Foreign Exchange – Spot FX is used by customers as hedges to protect themselves against changes in FX rates, to refine their risk profiles or to speculate on FX moves. Our FX team is a leading provider of foreign exchange products in Australian and New Zealand markets and a major liquidity provider in all G10 currencies.

Interest Rate Derivatives – IR Derivatives are used by customers as hedges to protect themselves against changes in market interest rates, to refine their risk profiles or to speculate on rate moves. NAB is recognised as a leading market-maker and liquidity provider in AUD and New Zealand dollar (NZD) interest rate markets.

Commodities – We provide customers with solutions to manage their exposure to commodity price movements, along with structured commodity investment opportunities.

Investor Sales – Our team covers clients with an ‘investor’ profile including banks, sovereigns, asset managers, hedge funds, superannuation firms and high net worth individuals. We bring a complete enterprise to enterprise approach involving product and platform solutions across Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives, Structured Products & Deposits.

Market Solutions – Our Markets Solutions team works closely with our customers on opportunities to improve yield outcomes, reduce costs, access collateral and protect capital.

Research – Research provides coverage of the Australian and New Zealand economies, as well as analysis and trading strategies for foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities. You may be familiar with their podcast The Morning Call which is extremely popular with clients and other market participants!

XVA – This desk centralises valuation adjustments on derivatives across the business to hedge credit and funding risks and determine capital requirements under bank capital adequacy rules.

Quantitative Research – This team provides quantitative solutions to Markets and other business areas across several asset classes. The solutions delivered range from front office tools or “apps” to quantitative infrastructure to bespoke analysis and consultation services.

Your best begins here!

We embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities to ensure our workforce is representative of the community that we serve. Let’s explore your unique skills and the role you can play in helping our communities prosper.

If you want to be part of NAB’s award-winning graduate program, we invite you to apply now. We actively encourage and welcome candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, preferences, people with disability and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.

Applications close 18th April 2022. 

To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status.