Treasury at Barclays vs Product Control at JP Morgan

PS. Barclays would offer around £35k starting. Im unaware of what it is for JP yet, but my general research tells me between 30-50k. If anyone knows what they are down the line it will be really helpful.

PSS. I study accounting and finance but would be interested interaction with financial markets as opposed to auditing.

If Barclays is a Graduate Programme. Go to Barclays. Your work will not be so much repetitive and you'll rotate and you'll climb up easily after your Programme if you work hard and help other people. Barclays promotes analysts to associate after two years these days.

If you go to JPM, you will be going into a specialist role. You're expected to do your job and your job only. Don't even think that you're gonna do this for a few years then become a trader. JPM encourage mobility a lot but you're not gonna be a trader lol or be in front office lol. Chances are slim.

Also, it will be harder to climb up in Product control as a specialist hire oppose to for instance hired onto their Corporate Development Programme or graduate Ops Programme

Would have to agree, far more opportunity to diversify at Barclays. Are both roles in good locations?

If Barclays is a Graduate Programme. Go to Barclays.

Thanks a lot for the response guys, and both roles are based in London.



I also forgot to mention that the Barclays offer is for a summer internship while the JPM would be a direct hire. I have already accepted the Barclays internship offer, but the JPM offer has now made me think about it.

With the Barclays offer is there an opportunity to be offered a grad role if successful? If so I wouldn't take the JPM offer however if not JPM would provide an excellent opportunity to network and potentially create some different career routes in the future

I also forgot to mention that the Barclays offer is for a summer internship while the JPM would be a direct hire. I have already accepted the Barclays internship offer, but the JPM offer has now made me think about it.

What's JPM offering for salary? If you perform well Barclays will hire you to return as a graduate. If you go to JPM you can try internal mobility but I think you have to be there for at least 18 months before you can apply for that and you'll still have to perform really well in your current role. If both were graduate role. I would pick JPM hands down.

Oh Barclays is a summer internship. If you pick Barclays your main aim is to try to get a return offer.

If you're not interested in moving to front office go to JPM. There are lots of different teams people don't even know about that are important for the bank. You could join later. For job security too I'd go for JPM because other offer is summer but if you want a structured Programme then go to Barclays, work hard and get a graduate offer.

It also depends on how old you are and your attitude to risk. If you want to be safe just go to JPM but if you believe in yourself and a risk taker and hard worker. Go to Barclays. Good luck.