Graduate Programme 2025 (2024-2027)

About Us

At Central Bank of Ireland, you will get the opportunity to join an organisation at the heart of the economy and financial system, with a focus on doing meaningful work for the public good while striving to have a positive impact on society. Our Graduate Programme develops the future talent and leadership that will allow us to continue to achieve our mandate now and into the future. .
In choosing to start your career with the Central Bank , your career and development will be our priority and we will provide the environment and opportunities for you to:

• Make a real difference and deliver output that matters
• Benefit from a panoramic view of the financial system
• Achieve your personal and professional goals.

Our Programme

Our three-year Graduate Programme will allow you to experience the diverse and unique work we’re involved in.

• You’ll be able to make a difference by participating in activities like contributing to the development of policies, procedures and frameworks, such as how we regulate firms or how we run our organisation, assisting in the supervision of financial institutions or supporting the screening and transmission of data to aid this supervision and reporting.
• You will be able to select one of three streams to specialise in, depending on your interest and career aspirations including Data, Digital and Technology, Supervision, Policy and Risk or Actuarial. More information is available on each of these streams via the below link.
• During the programme, you’ll participate in a number of rotations, which will accelerate your development – allowing you to improve your technical and interpersonal skills through meaningful and challenging work.

Our Streams

Stream 1 – Data, Digital and Technology

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.

Stream 2 – Supervision, Policy and Risk

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.

Stream 3 – Actuarial

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.

We know it's our people who make the Central Bank special and we are focused on creating a diverse, inclusive, fulfilling and progressive work environment. We encourage applications from candidates with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives as it strengthens us, as individuals and as an organisation. We are committed to positively supporting candidates with disabilities. If we can make any reasonable accommodations for you in the recruitment process in order to give you the opportunity to perform to your best, please email our Disability Inclusion Partner, Rebecca Daly at rebecca.daly@centralbank.ie or 01 224 6711. Any information that you provide will be used only for the purposes of providing relevant support and will have no bearing on how your application will be viewed.

The closing date is Sunday, 20 October

Once your application has been successfully submitted, you will receive an automatic email from us acknowledging receipt. If you do not receive this auto-acknowledgement, please contact recruitment@centralbank.ie