Risk and Compliance Graduate Programme 2025

Are you prepared to take the Risk? 

Risk management touches on every aspect of what an organisation does, and includes people with the most diverse backgrounds, skills and disciplines, who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about what they do. If you have excellent relation-building and communication skills, are diplomatic and flexible, inquisitive and curious and welcome challenge and change, then look no further.

As a Risk & Compliance Graduate, you’ll support our strategy for the wider bank to become a future leader, taking on diverse challenges across three nine-month rotations. Alongside some of the most engaging colleagues in the business, you’ll work on projects that will make a meaningful difference to our colleagues, customers, and the communities we support.

You’ll be part of making our bank a leader in risk function, encouraged to put forward your ideas with no limit to where your career could take you.

Our culture believes in giving you room to grow and enabling you to be your best, so you can expect plenty of opportunities for training and development.

If you enjoy a challenging work environment where you can make a real impact in the world, our Risk & Compliance teams want to find out more about you.

Where you’ll work  

Our Milton Keynes head office is the centre of gravity for our business. Unity Place has been built with sustainability and employee experience in mind and is a place where we can collaborate as a business. It gives our people the opportunity to make use of state-of-the-art facilities and come together with their teams from across the UK. Our programme is based in Unity Place but could also include different parts of one of our business areas across London or Manchester, so some travel may be involved throughout the twenty-seven-month programme.  

We offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in the office is at least 12 days per month.

If you apply for this role in Unity Place, Milton Keynes, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process

What we’re looking for in you 

• A Bachelor's degree in any discipline, as well as 112 UCAS points (top 3 A Level grades or equivalent excluding General Studies and Extended Project)

• A genuine passion for numbers and reasoning, and the ability to translate statistics and trends into meaningful advice

• A highly collaborative approach to work

• The ability to truly listen, talk straight and build lasting relationships

• The confidence to speak up with great ideas, embrace change and seek innovative new ways of doing things

• Commitment to The Santander Way, and our TEAMS behaviours:

Think Customer: 'I care about our customers, so I go the extra mile to earn their trust and loyalty'

Embrace change: 'I embrace new challenges and I see new ways of doing things as an opportunity to grow'

Act Now: 'I take accountability and manage risks accordingly, always keeping things simple'

Move Together: 'I seek opportunities to promote collaboration and work together to achieve common goals'

Speak Up: 'I feel free to raise any idea, ask any question or escalate any issues or risks, building an environment of respect and trust. I am comfortable sharing and receiving feedback.'

LET YOUR STORY UNFOLD WITH US

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. To find out more please visit our Diversity & Inclusion page here.

We welcome applications from people who have their own right to work in the UK. At this present time, Internship, graduate and apprenticeship roles are not eligible for sponsorship. We are welcoming applications from people who have a valid right to work in the UK and you will be asked to provide evidence of your right to work during your application process.  

Additionally, please note, during employment, you must be able to maintain and demonstrate your right to work in the United Kingdom throughout your employment at Santander