Markets - Sales and Trading, Full Time Analyst, London - United Kingdom, 2027

Citi is looking for full-time analysts to join its Markets team in London. The programme opens with orientation and training, introduces you to the Fixed Income, Currency, Commodity and Equity franchises across sales, trading and structuring, and gives you the chance to rotate across both product and function; as a full-time analyst you are then allocated to a product and given the opportunity to rotate within it. Citi says the goal at the end is to place analysts in a role that pairs their skills and interests with the needs of the firm. Source

One thing on the page does not line up, and you should see it before you plan around it. The title says 2027 and the posting went up on 4 September 2026, but the body says Citi's full-time Analyst programme 'starts in the Summer of 2026'. Source

Believe the title, not that line. A posting published in September 2026 cannot be recruiting for a programme that started in summer 2026, so the 2026 date is almost certainly left over from last year's advert, which banks recycle wholesale. Plan on a summer 2027 start, and get it confirmed in your first conversation with the recruiter before you decline anything else on the strength of it.

Token by token: 'Full Time Analyst' is the permanent graduate seat, not an internship, so this is the direct route in for people who are finishing or have finished. 'Markets' is Citi's trading division and a different house from its Banking and Investment Banking side, with its own recruitment process; applying to one is not applying to the other. 'Sales and Trading' puts you on the floor working with prices, flow and risk rather than on pitch books and models.

Markets at Citi serves corporates, institutions, governments and individual investors in 160 countries and territories, works trading floors in over 80 countries, and spans underwriting, structuring, securitisation, sales and trading and distribution across equities, commodities, credit, futures and foreign exchange. Source

22 people have held London roles in Citi's Markets business since 2018, against 119 in its IBD. The practical consequence is that there are far fewer people to ask about this seat than about a Citi banking one, so an alumnus who has done the Markets programme is worth finding before you interview.

The office is 33 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB, business casual, on a hybrid model of up to two days a week working from home. Workday files the role under Job Family Group: Institutional Trading, Job Family: Trading. Source

318 people have held London roles at Citigroup as a whole since 2018, which makes Citi one of the larger London employers among the US banks and means an alumnus who has sat in almost any Citi seat is findable.

What the firm says the job actually is: collecting and analysing macro and quantitative market information to support your desk, helping develop growth strategies across the product lines by coordinating client and market data, shadowing a range of desks and asset classes across the trading floor, taking on increasing responsibility and client interaction as you go, and being given time and resources to learn liquidity dynamics through market making, risk management and trade execution. Source

The posting says applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis and gives no closing date, which means there is nothing to wait for and no benefit in waiting. It went up on 4 September: an application read in September is competing against a near-empty pipeline, one read in January against a full one and against however many seats the summer class has already taken.

You need to be in your final year of university or to have recently graduated, with an expected or achieved 2:1 or equivalent at undergraduate level in any degree discipline. Ideally you are graduating from a business or engineering school and have shown an interest in financial markets through prior work experience or module choices. Citi asks for proficiency in programming languages, listing Python and 'VAB', which is a typo for VBA, plus Microsoft Office and especially Excel. Fluent written and spoken English is required; a second language is an advantage. Source

'Final year or recently graduated' is the line that decides this one. Penultimate-year students are not eligible here and should be applying to Citi's summer analyst route instead. If you graduated in the last year or two without landing a graduate seat, though, 'recently graduated' is an explicit invitation and worth taking literally rather than assuming the door has shut.