Graduate Programme 2026
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For the Public Good
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 and striving to have a positive impact on society. Our Graduate Programme develops the future talent and leadership that will allow the Central Bank to continue to achieve its mandate now and into the future.
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When you join our Graduate Programme, your career and development will be our priority. Over the course of the programme, we will nurture and develop you while providing you with the opportunity to:
- Contribute to, and deliver, meaningful work that matters – the work that we carry out every day is in the best interest of the public
- Benefit from a panoramic view of the financial system
- Achieve your personal and professional goals
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:
- Contributing to the development of policies, procedures and frameworks – such as how we regulate firms or how we run our organisation
- Leveraging your curiosity to identify and drive continuous improvement
- Providing solutions – underpinned by research and analysis – to complex problems that are unique to working at the Central Bank
- Undertaking tailored training while developing and enhancing your technical and soft skills across a range of areas.
During the programme, you’ll undertake two rotations. This will accelerate your development and allow you to improve your technical and interpersonal skills through meaningful and challenging work.
At the Central Bank, attitude is every bit as important as ability. You will have every opportunity to develop if you are a team player, have passion for what you do and have a desire to continuously improve. If you love to learn and really want to contribute to working for the public good, you’ll feel at home from day one. If you have these skills and attributes, we want to hear from you:
- You are driven, motivated and a self-starter
- You are curious, adaptable, and open to opportunities
- You know how to collaborate and make a positive impact in a team
- You are an independent thinker – prepared to challenge assumptions and bring new perspectives
- You have achieved – or are on target for – a 2.1 or above in any degree discipline.
Our Programme
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When you apply for our Programme, you can choose a specific stream to specialise in:
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 & Analytics 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, data analysis, maths or related 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.
Working for the Public Good
Graduate Benefits
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Find out more about the benefits of working at Central Bank of Ireland.
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Our 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.
Meet us at gradireland Graduate Careers Fair
We will be attending the gradIreland Graduate Careers Fair at the RDS in Dublin on 8 October 2025. To understand more about our programme and how you can work with us for the public good, drop over to our stand for a chat!
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How to Apply
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Are you ready to kick-start your career? Do you want to be involved in interesting, challenging work at the heart of Ireland’s financial sector? If you’re ready to work for the public good and make a meaningful impact, then we want to hear from you!
Apply for our Graduate Programme 2026
Application Process
- Complete an application form and send in your CV (via the link above). If you are shortlisted, we will invite you to complete an aptitude test, including verbal, numerical, and logical reasoning tests, as well as a job simulation.
- If you pass the tests, we will ask you to send us a short recorded video with responses to a number of questions.
- We will shortlist candidates for interviews (to be held remotely on WebEx) and assessments at our Dockland Campus.
We will accept applications for our Graduate Programme 2026 until 23:00 on 29 October 2025. Roles on the Programme will start in October 2026.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer and we encourage applications from a diverse mix of candidates. 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 ability, please let us know. 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.
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