Citizens Financial Group

Citizens runs thirteen named early-career tracks spanning consumer banking, capital markets & advisory, technology & security, treasury, risk, internal audit, HR, and wealth management, listed on its student and graduate hub. Two show the range in commitment: the Consumer Bank Enterprise Experience (CBEX) is a 10-week summer internship that can lead to a one-year CBEX development program built from four 3-month rotations, while the Treasury & Balance Sheet Strategies Graduate Rotational Program is an 18-month, full-time role split into three 6-month rotations across funding and liquidity, portfolio management, and balance-sheet strategy, based in Boston, MA and Johnston, RI.

• CBEX Summer Internship: 10 weeks, summer, Consumer Banking and enterprise functions
• CBEX Development Program: 1 year, four 3-month rotations, full-time
• Treasury & Balance Sheet Strategies Graduate Rotational Program: 18 months, three 6-month rotations, Boston MA / Johnston RI

A candidate choosing between these is choosing how much of the next year to commit before day one: CBEX opens as a ten-week internship that only becomes a longer commitment on a second offer, while Treasury and the bank's other rotational programs commit a candidate to 18 months of rotating assignments from the outset.

Citizens does not. Its Enterprise Technology & Security program page states plainly that "U.S. Immigration sponsorship or work visa is not available for these roles and you must have permanent authorization to work in the U.S." The same clause appears on the firm's internship postings for other functions, including Consumer Bank Enterprise Experience, indicating a company-wide policy rather than a rule specific to one program.

This rules out F-1 students on OPT without independent work authorization, and anyone who would need new employer sponsorship, from every US early-career track Citizens runs – worth checking before building an application around any of the firm's thirteen program pages.

Citizens holds $233.8 billion in assets and approximately 1,000 branches across 14 states and Washington, DC as of 30 June 2026, a footprint independently sized in the same range by outside reporting – the scale of a large regional bank rather than a global bulge-bracket. That scale supports thirteen distinctly named early-career tracks, from Capital Markets & Advisory to Enterprise Technology & Security to Wealth Management, more functional entry points than a single-business regional bank typically runs. Several of the longer graduate programs, including Treasury & Balance Sheet Strategies (18 months, three 6-month rotations) and the CBEX Development Program (1 year, four 3-month rotations), pair every rotation with a formal mentor rather than leaving new hires to one fixed seat.

For an early-career applicant, the harder choice at Citizens is less whether to apply than which of the thirteen tracks and rotation lengths to build a case for, since each commits a different amount of time to a different part of the bank.

Yes. Citizens Financial Group has 5 student and graduate roles open right now, in summer internships and graduate jobs.

Citizens Financial Group opened its summer internships on 14 Sept 2026 and its graduate jobs on 8 Jul 2026. Dates are when the firm posted each programme, or when we first saw it on the firm's careers site.

Citizens Financial Group has student and graduate roles open in Boston and New York.

Applications to Citizens Financial Group go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.