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Rates Trading – Intern (Europe)

Citadel Securities
🇬🇧London🇫🇷ParisStudentInternPosted September 22, 2026

About the Role

At Citadel Securities, traders make complex risk decisions and execute trades at scale, in real-time. Working alongside markets and trading experts who use predictive analytics and advanced technology, you will monitor risk, respond to market signals, execute trading strategies, and provide liquidity to major financial institutions such as central banks, pension funds and asset managers.

This is an 11-week internship program offering the chance to collaborate and connect with senior team members and to network with peers throughout the internship.

  • Develop in-depth knowledge of financial markets
  • Constantly learn and adapt trading approaches
  • Work with the current trading team to build new tools, improve the pricing framework, and run data analysis
  • Learn how traders price and hedge client flow and help develop the firm's relationship with its client base
  • Observe how traders develop trading strategies around technical and market events

Responsibilities

  • Develop in-depth knowledge of financial markets
  • Constantly learn and adapt trading approaches
  • Work with current trading team to build new tools, improvements to pricing framework, and run data analysis
  • Learn how our traders price and hedge client flow/help develop firm's relationship with client base
  • Observe how traders develop trading strategies around technical and market events

Requirements

  • Pursuing a bachelor's or master's in finance, business administration, economics, computer science, statistics, mathematics or related disciplines preferred
  • Passion and demonstrated interest in the markets
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills
  • Attention to detail and good organizational skills
  • Self-starter and hard-working, not afraid to question status quo, and has an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Proactive, motivated, and self-drive personality with a strong desire to learn, adapt, and take initiative
  • Superior written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to efficiently multi-task and has the capacity to handle high-pressure and fast-paced environments

What You'll Get

  • 11 week internship program
  • Opportunity to collaborate and connect with senior team members
  • Opportunity to network and socialize with peers throughout the internship