Graduate Trainee -Programme Management Officer (PMO) - London, hybrid £35-40k

Working closely with the Chief Strategy Officer, you will play a central role in planning, tracking, and delivering strategic initiatives across Banking, Trading, IT, workforce, and wider business operations. This is a high-visibility opportunity for someone eager to learn the mechanics of investment banking while contributing meaningfully from day one.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Strategy & Project Coordination

1. Support the Chief Strategy Officer in coordinating and tracking strategic initiatives.
2. Maintain project tracking across multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring milestones, actions, and dependencies are clearly documented and monitored.

2) Stakeholder Management & Reporting

1. Prepare briefing materials, status reports, and presentations for senior stakeholders and leadership.
2. Liaise with internal teams and external stakeholders to gather updates, chase actions, and surface risks or blockers in a timely manner.
3. Develop and maintain project documentation, registers, and logs in line with business standards.

3) Process Improvement

1. Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal processes, identifying inefficiencies and proposing solutions.
2. Support the adoption of tools and platforms that streamline operations and enhance business productivity.

Essential Skills

1. Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
2. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation and stakeholder-facing materials.
3. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Excel and PowerPoint.
4. A genuine interest in Technology, Investment Banking and Trading.
5. Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
6. Comfortable working with ambiguity and taking initiative in a scaling business environment.

Desirable Skills

1. Interest in and awareness of AI platforms and tools, including conversational AI (such as Claude or ChatGPT), workflow automation, and emerging productivity technologies.
2. Exposure to project tracking tools like MS Project or JIRA

Personal Attributes

1. Ambitious and commercially curious, with a genuine desire to develop a career in investment banking.