Markets - Sales, Trading & Structuring, Off-Cycle Internship, Frankfurt - Germany, 2026

About the role

Six-month off-cycle internship in Citi’s Frankfurt Markets team, supporting sales, trading, and structuring across equities, rates, credit, FX, futures, commodities, and emerging markets. Interns analyse market information, support clients and processes, and gain trading-floor exposure with increasing responsibility and client interaction.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyse macroeconomic and industry information to develop client ideas, market content, updated analysis, and daily news.
• Handle institutional and corporate client inquiries, coordinate with trading desks, and support structured-products and exotic-options pricing requests.
• Support pre- and post-trade services, confirmations, settlement issues, and coordination with origination, valuation, middle-office, and back-office teams.
• Organise Corporate Access and Analyst Access marketing activities for institutional clients.
• Optimise recurring client processes, including reports, activity recaps, trade-efficiency reviews, hit-ratio analysis, and trend-identification tools.
• Research products, clients, and trends while coordinating follow-ups, recording call notes, and completing small project-management tasks.

Training and Development

• Work alongside experienced professionals and receive meaningful responsibilities, including direct client contact, from the first day.
• Shadow multiple desks and asset classes across the trading floor while building and using a professional network.
• Receive increasing responsibility and client interaction as knowledge and expertise develop during the internship.

Requirements

• Demonstrated understanding of finance and strong interest in financial markets.
• Currently studying in the penultimate or final year of university or business school.
• Expected to achieve or already achieved a 2.1 degree classification or equivalent at undergraduate level.
• Strong Microsoft Office knowledge, particularly Excel.
• Fluency in German and English.
• Availability for six months starting in late 2026.

Additional Qualities

• Previous financial-markets experience is advantageous.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, planning, organisational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Self-starter who takes ownership, works effectively in teams, and proactively seeks creative ideas.
• Desire to develop a deep understanding of the industry and build strong professional relationships.
• Commitment to personal growth, career development, mobility, flexibility, and continuous learning.
• Commitment to integrity and ethical decision-making.