Weatherbys Banking Group

Weatherbys publishes two named early-career routes on its careers site:

• Private Bank Internship Programme: eight weeks, starting late June or beginning of July, office-based in London, Edinburgh or Wellingborough. The firm states it offers "a limited number of places each summer" and that interns rotate across both client-facing teams (banking, business development, investment advice) and central functions (IT, HR, finance, risk, compliance, marketing, operations). Source: Internships page.
• Associate Private Banker scheme: a two-year fixed-term programme the firm describes as a structured route to becoming a Private Banker, combining mentorship from senior bankers with direct client contact across the high-net-worth book.

Alongside these the firm runs an Edinburgh Napier University partnership pipeline for technology and AI talent into Edinburgh-based placements, and posts ad-hoc work-experience opportunities out of Wellingborough. The total annual intake is small — a candidate applying here is competing for a single-digit class, not a graduate scheme of the kind run by the larger UK wealth managers.

For the next cohort, the firm's internships page currently states: "Applications are closed for this year, so please come back to check in November 2026." The internship runs eight weeks from late June or early July, so a candidate who waits to check the page in November 2026 is targeting summer 2027 placement roughly seven months out. The Associate Private Banker scheme is recruited on a separate cycle via the APB scheme page and posted as standalone vacancies rather than a fixed annual window, so its opening is not tied to the November intern reopening — a candidate watching for either route needs to check both pages independently.

Weatherbys is a seventh-generation, family-owned independent bank founded in 1770 — the firm received its banking licence from the Bank of England in 1994, but the underlying business has served the British and Irish horseracing industry since James Weatherby was appointed Jockey Club Secretary 250+ years ago. Three things shape what early-career work looks like here that do not at the larger UK wealth managers:

• Weatherbys Racing Bank: a dedicated banking division for racehorse owners, trainers and industry professionals — VAT return services, the Racing Payment Service, yearling-sales FX. This is a niche client base with no direct equivalent in mainstream UK private banking.
• A small UK footprint by design: four offices (London, Wellingborough HQ, Edinburgh, Manchester) and a deliberately small annual intern class, so a successful applicant sits closer to the senior team than the equivalent grade at a Coutts or a UBS Wealth.
• A four-entity group rather than a single private bank: the Private Bank sits alongside the recently launched Business Bank, the Racing Bank, and Arkle Finance (asset finance). An intern's exposure crosses these in a way the firm explicitly designs into the rotation.

For a candidate weighing Weatherbys against a large UK wealth manager, the trade-off is breadth versus access: fewer formalised training streams and qualifications, but earlier and more direct exposure to senior bankers and to a genuinely specialised client base.

Weatherbys Banking Group currently has no open internship or graduate roles listed on Jorb AI. This page updates continuously; check back as new postings rotate.

Applications to Weatherbys Banking Group go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Weatherbys Banking Group does not use third-party submission services.