2025 Deutsche Bank Graduate Programme - Investment Bank: Origination & Advisory

The Deutsche Bank Graduate Programme

The Deutsche Bank Graduate Programme is a year-long comprehensive programme designed to provide you with exposure to a range of fascinating projects and ongoing professional and technical training to develop the skills you need to grow your career. You’ll feel supported by a network of peers and mentors and benefit from our global wellbeing programme. 

About the business division

Our Origination & Advisory business provides the full range of advisory and financing products and services of a leading global investment bank. Our clients include large-cap and mid-cap corporates, financial institutions, governments, government agencies and financial sponsors.

We recognise that selecting the right investment banking partner can be the key to a company’s success. Our relationships are enhanced by industry sector, country and regional expertise, closely aligned to high-quality client solutions. We offer both buyside and sellside advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, restructuring advisory, debt and equity capital raising services and structured equity transactions. We advise on innovative cross-border and regional transactions in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Division specifics about the graduate role

You’ll work on projects that find new ways to help our clients reach their financial goals. Your day-to-day tasks will vary depending on your role; you might be modelling and forecasting a client’s financial statements, valuing a company, preparing marketing materials for a client pitch or for an equity or debt issue. Your learning curve will be steep as you get involved in current deals and interact with clients, you’ll enjoy plenty of support from managers and mentors, along with unparalleled global exposure.

You will be trained by the best, evolve professionally as well as personally, and build a firm foundation upon which to specialise later.

Areas in which you could work:

• Industry Groups
• Product Groups

What we look for

We recruit students and graduates who are intelligent and adaptable with excellent communication skills. They have degrees in many different disciplines. Even though good levels of numeracy are important for some roles, you won’t necessarily need a formal mathematical or financial background. Our comprehensive training programme will give you all the technical knowledge you’ll need to build a career with us.

To be eligible for the 2025 Graduate Programme you must:

• Complete your studies (all final exams, coursework and have no outstanding requirements for graduation) between 1st January 2024 and 31st July 2025. 
• Be able to start full time work in July 2025, subject to local working legislation and visa requirements. 
• Possess no more than 12 months full-time, relevant work experience.

 Benefits and wellbeing

Feeling healthy, engaged and well-supported, enables us to do our best work and get the most out of life outside of the office. That’s why Deutsche Bank is committed to providing benefits and programmes centred around wellbeing. Benefits & Wellbeing – Deutsche Bank Careers (db.com)

About us and our teams

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – where our people have a sense of belonging and everyone feels welcomed, respected and can contribute and grow. We know that high-performing teams have different skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We collaborate, encourage and enable open dialogue and diversity of views.  We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer. 

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides. 

How to apply

Whether you're fresh out of school or already have some experience, you'll find a wealth of helpful tools and information on our Employability Hub that will support you with your application, prepare for the assessment processes and adapt to a new working environment. 

Please visit www.careers.db.com/students-graduates to apply.   

Applications close Sunday 13 October 11.45pm SGT and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.