Business Analyst - Finance - Internship

About the role

A 10-week Finance Business Analyst internship in HSBC’s Group Infrastructure division, based in Birmingham. You’ll analyse financial data, support reporting and transformation initiatives, develop recommendations for stakeholders, and learn how finance insight informs strategy, performance and change across a global banking organisation.

Responsibilities

• Analyse financial data to support business decisions and identify reporting improvement opportunities.
• Use digital or AI tools to support reporting analysis and turn trends into recommendations.
• Contribute to balance sheet management, regulatory reporting, tax or transformation projects.
• Collaborate with Finance colleagues and wider bank stakeholders to connect data, insight and decisions.
• Complete structured assessments, potentially including project work, presentations, interviews or skills-based evaluations.

Training and development

• Receive technical training, skills coaching and hands-on experience within a Finance team.
• Develop knowledge of financial concepts, reporting and market trends.
• Build confidence turning data into insight and communicating clearly in a professional environment.
• Strengthen understanding of how business analysis supports decision-making at HSBC.

Team and location

• Work within Group Infrastructure’s Finance teams in Birmingham.
• Collaborate with finance specialists supporting reporting, balance sheet management, tax and transformation priorities.
• Join a professional office environment focused on insight, accuracy and stakeholder relationships.

Eligibility

• Be available to work full time for 10 weeks commencing June 2027.
• Expect to achieve a 2:1 degree classification or higher, or an overseas equivalent.
• Expect to graduate in 2028 and be in the penultimate year of undergraduate studies.
• Be fluent in English.
• Candidates requiring visa sponsorship will be considered.
• Only one application is accepted per recruitment cycle.