Santander UK plc : Employer profile

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It’s time.

It’s time to bring all the things you do best to one of the world’s biggest banks. A bank with over 90 million customers globally and more branches than any other international bank. It’s time to stretch your potential and learn from industry experts. It’s time to take on real responsibility and to make business-critical decisions. It’s time to be part of a fast-paced team and to move as quickly as your skills take you. It’s time to join Santander.

Our Business

Santander operates across several markets in the UK, so you have the chance to enjoy a long and diverse career with us. Our four main divisions are:

Retail Banking: offers residential mortgages, savings products, banking services (including current accounts), and other personal financial products to customers throughout the UK.

Corporate Banking: offers banking services principally to the Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SME) market.

Global Banking & Markets: provides financial markets sales, trading and risk management services to corporate clients in the UK, as well as originating structured products for retail customers.

Private Banking: offers private banking services for retail and corporate clients, and specialist banking services (including onshore and offshore savings accounts, execution-only stockbroking and marketing of structured products)

Facts and figures (at Dec 2010)

• Around 26 million customers
• 25 Corporate Business Centres
• More than 1,400 branches
• 25,656 staff

The Opportunity

At Santander we’re all about opportunity. A relatively new name in the UK banking market, we’ve already made our mark, being named ‘Best UK Bank’ by Euromoney for the third year running and ‘Best UK Bank’ by The Banker for the second successive year in 2010. And as one of the most stable and secure names in UK banking and global footprint that dates back 150 years, we’ve got the foundation and experience to make an even bigger impression.

But what does that mean for you as a graduate? Well for starters in means were in the position to be talking about growth, to look forward and not backwards. To think bigger and not smaller. That means as a graduate we can provide more opportunities to develop your skills, take the next steps and achieve everything you want to achieve.

Our 2012 graduate will programme will include intakes for the following programmes:

Marketing

Finance

HR

Corporate Banking

Private Banking – Jersey

Investment Banking

Asset Management

Retail

Contact Centre

Operations

Global Manufacturing

Finance

Internal Audit

Banking Operations Support

Telephone Sales / Contact Centre

How to apply

It’s time to consider Santander. Visit our website to find out more.