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Financial Services Placement Programme

Spend your year working alongside leading global financial institutions as you help protect the integrity of financial markets

Belfast / Derry-Londonderry / Letterkenny

Applications for the 2026/27 FinTrU Placement Programme will close on 10 November 2025.

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Placement Programme

Are you an ambitious, high-potential student looking to gain hands-on experience working on client projects while learning directly from industry experts?

Here's what a 12-month placement at FinTrU looks like:

  • Your placement begins with a two-week bespoke training programme, designed to build your professional skills, introduce you to FinTrU, and give you insight into the product areas you may be working in.
  • Work alongside leading global financial institutions, helping to protect the integrity of financial markets.
  • Achieve the prestigious CISI Investment Operations Certificate (IOC) – a highly-respected qualification that deepens your understanding of the investment banking industry.
  • Receive competitive benefits and salary.
  • Successful completion of the 12-month programme comes with the offer of a full-time role at FinTrU after graduation.

If you are ambitious, interested in an industry that works to uphold the integrity of the financial system, and would like to experience the fast-moving world of financial services, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply to the Placement Programme

Belfast Placement
Derry/Londonderry Placement
Letterkenny Placement

Placements Past
Song talks about his Placement experience

Our Culture

At FinTrU, you will become part of a dynamic company that delivers excellence in a culture that thrives on inclusivity, entrepreneurialism and knowing how to have fun.

Our strong sense of inclusion and togetherness creates the perfect foundation for job satisfaction and success. Through our committees: TrU Ability; TrU Colours; TrUly Diverse; Charity; and Women In Finance, we have regular events throughout the year, while our numerous groups, from mountain climbers to book lovers, provide a vast network for social gatherings and networking across the company. If the group you want to join doesn’t exist, then you can create it.

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Placements Past
Ciara shares her Placement experience

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Interview Tips

Here are some handy tips to help you with your interview:

  • Firstly, look at the key requirements of the role and adapt your CV and cover letter to reflect this

  • Look around FinTrU.com. Discover our work and our unique culture

  • FinTrU wants to get to know you. As well as your understanding of our brand and business, we want to know about your passions too

  • Look through our social media accounts across LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram and see what we’ve been talking about to the outside world

  • Apply early! FinTrU receives a lot of applicants so they review as they go. The sooner your application is submitted the sooner you can find out if you have been put forward to the next stage

Returning Placements 2025
Returning placements from our 2024 programme take a trip to our Porto office.

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Placements Past
Shania talks about her Placement experience

Belfast Placements

Apply for a placement position at our Belfast office

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Derry/Londonderry Placements

Apply for a placement position at our Derry/Londonderry office

Derry/Londonderry Placements – Apply

Letterkenny Placements

Apply for a placement position at our Letterkenny office

Letterkenny Placements – Apply

We Will Be At...
Want to find out more about Early Careers at FinTrU? Come and meet us at:
QBS Placement Fair – 1 October
ATU Sligo Be Career Curious Career Fair – 1 October
UU Business Careers Fair (Belfast Campus) – 7 October
UU Business Careers Fair (Magee Campus) – 9 October
QUB Autumn Fair – 14 & 15 October
ATU Donegal Careers Fair – 20 October
UU Careers Fair Coleraine – 5 November