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What they do

Banco Santander is a bank. Its postings describe it as a global leader in financial services that is changing from a high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization. The board covers branch banking, corporate and investment banking, and the technology behind both. The group is based in Spain and its largest hiring country on this board is Brazil.

What they value

• The customer in front of you, because half the board is face-to-face service.
• Bold thinking, which postings pair with the courage to challenge what is possible.
• Controls and evidence, which corporate postings name as KYC and AML records.
• Training people from the start, through graduate programmes and 45 early career postings.
• Hiring people with disabilities, which the board marks with its own contract type.

Where they hire

Of 1,084 postings, Brazil holds 415, the United States 147, Mexico 136, Germany 95, Spain 92, and the United Kingdom 76. Chile and Portugal hold 16 each, Austria 11, Singapore nine, Hong Kong eight, and Poland six. Smaller counts cover Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Nine hundred and three postings are full time.

Teams and roles

Branch service is the bulk of the board, and everything else is much smaller.

• Face-to-face customer sales and service: 548 postings, half the board. These are branch roles such as tellers and personal bankers.
• Specialized products: 50 postings, plus 24 in remote customer service.
• Early careers: 45 postings, alongside 25 apprenticeships and 24 internships.
• Distribution management and bankers: 31 postings each, plus 21 in commercial and business banking.
• Software engineering: 27 postings, plus 14 in systems infrastructure and communication platforms.
• Technology risk and cybersecurity: 26 postings.
• Transaction banking: 26 postings. Product and service value proposition management holds 26 more.
• Data: 21 postings in analytics and models, plus six in data management and governance.
• Investment and asset management: 20 postings, with trading, debt finance, and credit risk holding seven to nine each.
• Control functions: legal 11, compliance nine, accounting eight, and recovery and collections five.

What they look for

The board asks for two different careers. Branch postings, such as the part-time teller in Abington, Pennsylvania, are local and hire for service rather than for a degree. Corporate postings are specific about the deal work: the transaction manager posting covers lending, leveraged finance, and structured finance from pre-approval through closing, booking, funding, and settlement, and asks you to keep approvals, documentation, KYC and AML evidence, and booking data accurate. The investment banking analyst posting names the coverage groups on offer, including financial sponsors, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, industrials, and technology, and states that the analyst joins a Global Graduate Training Program to build financial modeling, valuation, and presentation skills. Every posting names the country in its first line.