Financial Crime Intern

Financial Crime

Posted on 9/24/2025

NatWest Group

NatWest Group

Compensation Overview

£12.50/hr

Edinburgh, UK

Remote

Why Financial Crime?

Are you curious and analytical and someone who likes to think outside of the box? Are you resourceful and a great problem-solver, able to overcome a range of challenges? If so, our Financial Crime programme could be for you?

This is a chance to experience a financial crime business that’s built on the latest artificial intelligence. This programme is fantastic for gaining a breadth of experience in financial crime, and your opportunity to work in one of the fastest-growing centres of excellence for it.

You can expect:

  • The chance to be part of one of the biggest change programmes in the bank
  • To develop the skills to lead in teams that prevent and detect financial crime and protect our customers
  • To build experience in anti-money-laundering investigations, and the opportunity to work with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and National Crime Agency

Our brand-new summer internship

Our Financial Crime summer internship has been designed to give you a taste of what it’s like to work with us, along with valuable experience to help guide your career choices.

At the end of the placement, we’ll assess you on what you’ve learned. Complete this successfully and you could be offered a place on our Financial Crime Graduate Programme, where you can carry the skills you’ve learnt forward and take the next step in your career.

Over the course of this eight-week programme, you can look forward to:

  • Learning about our culture, values, and goals
  • Attending training workshops and getting involved with our day-to-day work
  • Understanding how we work within the FinCrime Hub to keep our customers safe from criminals
  • Gaining unique experience right across different teams that make up the FinCrime Hub
  • Getting hands-on with a range of cutting-edge tools and platforms
  • Exploring your capability by taking part in a business improvement project
  • Developing your collaboration, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills
  • Seeing first-hand how we work together as one-bank to deliver an outstanding service for our customers

How you’ll benefit

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £26,010 pro rata. And on top of your salary, you’ll also have access to our flexible benefits package.

Plus, you can expect to:

  • Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings
  • Enrich your learning with access to world-leading research and insights
  • Test and learn new approaches in a safe, inclusive environment
  • Start building a global professional network
  • Grow your confidence, build your resilience, and elevate your presence
  • Experience first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation

Entry requirements

To be eligible for our Financial Crime summer internship, you’ll need:

  • To be in your penultimate year of university
  • To be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree
  • A passion for working within financial crime
  • A creative and analytical approach to problem solving
  • Curiosity, integrity, and determination

Ready to apply?

The application window for this programme will be open until we receive enough applications to fill our cohort. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. It’s important to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme) but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out!

Have another question?

Head over to our ‘Applying and eligibility support’ page now for answers to some of our most commonly asked questions.

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

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