Graduate Programme 2024

Hear from our current graduate about their experience on the Data, Digital and Technology Stream.

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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, maths, engineering, electronics and cyber security 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.

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.

Our recently expanded 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.

On our Graduate Programme, you can expect:

– A tailored induction programme

– Rotations into different business areas to gain a broader perspective and experience. We'll provide you with the training and support you need to help you reach your career goals. Through rotation, you will get the opportunity to deepen your technical and behavioural skillset.

– Bespoke Graduate Training & Development Programme.

– Participation on our One Bank Curriculum, which all graduates must complete. This academic programme is designed to meet the technical training needs of our people, and is fully accredited by Institute of Bankers and University College Dublin.

– Focused on-the-job training.

– Academic and Professional Training Scheme (APTS), which supports our graduates in pursuing further qualifications. We also provide study and exam leave.

– State-of-the-art in-house training facilities and study spaces

– Access to an up-to-date and modern physical and online library of resources.

– Access to online course providers recognised by universities.

We believe that if we are to achieve our mission and mandate, we need people with diverse experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and thinking styles. Over recent years, we have made Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) an organisational priority and integrated it into our broader strategic framework. For example,our commitment to D&I is:

– Included in our Strategy

– Reflected in our vision

– Woven through our desired culture and values

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion

We have a vibrant Sports & Social Club, which comprises numerous activities such as:

– Athletics

– Angling

– Basketball

– Football

– Ten pin Bowling

– Golf

– Tag Rugby

– Surfing

– Photography

– Walking

The club runs fitness classes across all our offices, including:

– Pilates

– Yoga

– Boot Camp

– Circuits

– Trampoline Fitness

Along with the various individual sporting club events, the club aims to hold (and subsidise) at least two social events per month.

These events include:

– Theatre nights

– Quiz nights

– Cocktail nights

– Wine tasting

– Summer race evenings

– Comedy nights

– Taste of Dublin

– Bloom

– Dublin Horse Show

– Summer BBQ

– Annual Island trip away

Find out more by watching our culture and values video

We’re passionate about  Corporate Social Responsibility and we encourage our people to avail of volunteering opportunities such as the Early Learning Initiative, Junior Achievement Ireland and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

You can support charities that are close to your heart, and we can provide matching funds to supplement money you raise. Our people also raise money and volunteer throughout the year for our partner charities.

With the Central Bank, you can support worthwhile causes and truly make a difference.

The Central Bank Graduate programme was awarded the Diversity Recruitment Award (Bronze) and the Best Innovation in Graduate Recruitment (Bronze) award at the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards 2021.

Our efforts to support and promote the employment of graduates with disabilities has been recognised at the Willing Able Mentoring (WAM) Leader Awards by AHEAD for the past four years. 

The Central Bank has also been recognised with an accreditation from the Business Working Responsibly Mark.

And we achieved the IBEC Keep Well Mark, which involved an assessment of our D&I activities.

Find out more about our Awards and Accreditations.