Graduate Programme 2025

If you're passionate about data and want to play a role in managing the information that the Central Bank collects, stores, produces and uses in our day-to-day work, we encourage you to select the Data Science stream. You'll be involved in:

– Contributing to how we screen and transmit data to aid supervision and reporting

– Helping us to build and maintain our data infrastructure

– Using data analytic tools to understand the details behind the numbers

– Compiling data and preparing early stage analysis, literature searches and reviews on research topics for economists and policy specialists to help make important decisions.

For this stream, we are particularly interested in graduates from statistics, economics, econometrics, computer science, data analysis, maths, and engineering disciplines.

If your application for this stream is successful, you will be working across a range of business areas and getting involved in diverse activities such as:

– Assisting in the supervision of financial institutions.

– Developing and implementing policy.

– Advancing your expertise in financial and non-financial risk.

– Analysing emerging trends to identify and mitigate risk.

For this stream, we are particularly interested in graduates from business, finance, engineering or related disciplines.

 

Trainee Accountants

If your application is successful, you will be working across a range of Finance areas and getting involved in diverse activities such as:

- Supporting the preparation of the Central Bank’s Annual Accounts in order to ensure that all statutory obligations are met.

- Assisting in the preparation and analysis of monthly/quarterly financial updates for a number of statutory entities in order to support reporting to key stakeholders.

- Preparation and analysis of the Central Bank-wide operating budget, projections, and expenditure information.

- Contribute to the production of high quality information through building system expertise.

- Exposure to tax.

- Opportunities to manage and lead upon elements of the annual audit cycle.

For this stream, we are particularly interested in graduates from accounting and finance, with graduates becoming a member of a professional accounting body and completing the exams to qualify as an accountant.

In this stream, you will work within our Insurance and Prudential Analysis and Inspections directorates, and play a key role in:

– Contributing actuarial analysis and subject matter expertise to deliver effective supervision of regulated entities in the insurance sector, leading to a more robust and resilient financial system

– Creating, developing  and delivering actuarial analysis of insurance industry data to contribute to the monitoring and assessment of reserving, pricing and capital risks across life, non-life and reinsurance markets

– Contributing to the assessment and monitoring of complex and internal capital models, working closely with other European regulators

– Collaborating with colleagues across the supervisory, policy, consumer and analytics teams to support their understanding of actuarial information.

For this stream, we offer unique opportunities for trainee actuaries to build actuarial experience across a variety of actuarial disciplines and a broad range of domestic and international insurance business models.

We are particularly interested in graduates from mathematical-based disciplines who want to build their actuarial career and qualifications with us.  At the Central Bank, we offer a learning environment with strong academic supports to pursue actuarial qualifications.

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Our Dockland Campus has been designed to be as open and inclusive as possible, with accessibility at the forefront of the design process. The building provides a modern workplace facilitating open communication, and promoting teamwork and interaction at every level. Our health and wellbeing agenda is at the heart of our people-first experience, with on-site facilities – including an onsite strength room – encouraging employees to optimise their own health and wellbeing.

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If you have any questions about our Graduate Programme 2025, please contact:

Aobh Kavanagh

Graduate Programme Manager

Telephone: +353 (0)1 224 5046

Email: [email protected]