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Investment Banking CV Template (UK) 2026: Spring Week and Summer Internship CVs

Last updated: October 2026 · 2 Word templates (first-year spring week, penultimate-year Summer Analyst) · one A4 page · 4 programmes · 5 sections · 5 bullet formulas for a CV with no finance experience

Free Word templates:First-year CV, London format: spring week application (.docx)Student CV, London format: Summer Analyst application (.docx)
60-second answerUpdated October 2026
Investment banking CVs in London: the 60-second answer
  1. A London banking CV is one A4 page: contact line, education, experience, leadership and activities, then skills and interests. Times New Roman or Garamond at 10-11pt, no photo, no date of birth, no personal statement paragraph.
  2. Education goes first and carries the most detail: degree with predicted or achieved classification and first-year or second-year marks, A-levels (or IB Diploma) with grades, and a one-line GCSE summary. Banks screen on these before they read anything else.
  3. What goes in the experience section depends on the programme: a spring week CV can run on part-time work, societies and school leadership; a summer internship CV is expected to show a spring week, an insight day or some finance exposure; an off-cycle or graduate CV needs a full internship.
  4. Every bullet names a number, even from a shop job or a society: hours, money, people, rankings. 'Responsible for customer service' reads as nothing; 'ran the Saturday cash-up for a £25,000-a-week store with no variances' reads as someone trusted with money.
  5. One CV per programme, not one per bank. Bank applications usually ask for a CV upload plus motivational questions, so keep the CV factual and put the why-this-bank reasoning in the answers.

London banks hire most of their Analysts through a ladder that starts in first year: a spring week, then a summer internship, then a graduate offer. The CV is one A4 page at every step, but what fills it changes, and a first-year's page looks nothing like a finalist's. This guide covers the UK format. For a New York or other US office, the investment banking resume guide has the US conventions and an experienced Analyst template. Jump to the two Word templates.

Spring week, summer internship, off-cycle, graduate: what each CV is read for

Dates and eligibility differ by bank and change each year, so check every programme's own page. The pattern below holds across most of them.

Spring week (spring insight programme)
Who and when: Mainly first-year undergraduates (second-years on a four-year course). Usually a week or a few days of rotations and talks, run in the spring term; applications typically open in the autumn and many are reviewed on a rolling basis.
What the CV needs: Grades and evidence of initiative. Nobody expects finance experience: a part-time job, a society role, school leadership, a competition or a self-taught skill is what fills the page. Show interest in markets through what you did, not through adjectives.
Summer internship (Summer Analyst)
Who and when: Penultimate-year students. Usually around ten weeks the summer before graduation, and the main route into a graduate Analyst offer; applications typically open in the summer or early autumn of the year before, often on a rolling basis.
What the CV needs: Some exposure to finance: a spring week, an insight day, a boutique or corporate finance internship, an investment society role with a pitch or a model. Lead the experience section with it, and quantify what you built or analysed.
Off-cycle internship
Who and when: Graduates, master's students and students on a placement year. Runs outside the summer, often for three to six months, and hires closer to the start date than the summer programme.
What the CV needs: A full internship or a year of work already on the CV, written deal-first: the transaction type, what you produced, the outcome. Your availability dates go in the contact line or the top of the education section.
Graduate Analyst
Who and when: Final-year students and recent graduates. Most banks fill most Analyst seats from their own summer interns, so direct graduate places are fewer.
What the CV needs: Your best internship first, with deal and model detail; the dissertation if it is quantitative or finance-related; achieved results replacing predicted ones the moment you have them.

The one-page UK banking CV: exact structure

Education comes first for every student and graduate application.

1Contact line
Name, city, email, phone, LinkedIn URL, right to work in the UK where it is not obvious (for example 'UK citizen' or 'Graduate visa'), and languages with level. One or two lines under the name. No photo, date of birth, marital status or full address.
2Education
University, degree and expected graduation year, then classification (predicted First or 2:1) with year marks and three or four strong module marks. Then school: A-levels or IB Diploma with grades, and GCSEs in one line ('10 GCSEs: 7 at grade 9, including Mathematics'). Scholarships, prizes and a quantitative dissertation or extended project belong here.
3Experience
Reverse chronological. Employer, city, role, dates and the length of short programmes ('1 week', '8 weeks'). Two or three bullets each. Part-time and summer jobs count, and for a spring week application they are often the strongest thing you have.
4Leadership and activities
Society committee roles, investment society pitches, sports captaincy, volunteering, school prefect or head of house, competitions. Write them like jobs: what you ran, how many people, how much money, what changed.
5Skills and interests
Technical skills you can be tested on (Excel to the level you actually have, any modelling course, Python), certifications such as Bloomberg Market Concepts, languages if not in the contact line, and one or two specific interests you can talk about for two minutes.

Investment banking CV templates: a spring week CV and a Summer Analyst CV

The first is for a first-year applying to spring weeks, with no finance experience on it; the second is for a penultimate-year student applying to summer internships after a spring week and a boutique internship. Every name, school, employer and figure is a placeholder showing the shape of a quantified line. Each downloads as a Word file on A4 in one serif font with no tables or columns; replace every line with your own.

First-year CV, London format: spring week application
[Your Name] — First-year undergraduate, BSc Economics

[City] · [email] · [phone] · linkedin.com/in/[your-name] · Right to work: [status] · Languages: English (native), [language] (conversational)

Download as Word (.docx)

Education

[University], BSc EconomicsSep 2026 – Jun 2029 (expected)
  • Expected classification: [First / 2:1]. Add your first-year marks here as soon as you have them; before then, the A-level grades below carry the section.
  • Modules this year: Macroeconomics, Statistics, Financial Accounting, Economic History.
  • Awards: [Scholarship], awarded to 20 of about 400 incoming students on academic merit.
[School], A-levels2024 – 2026
  • Mathematics A*, Economics A*, History A. Extended Project (A): how the Bank of England's 2022 gilt intervention worked.
  • GCSEs: 10, including 7 at grade 9 (Mathematics, English Language, Physics).

Experience

Sales Assistant (part-time), [Retailer], [City]Oct 2024 – present · 12 hrs a week
  • Run the Saturday cash-up and stock count for a £25,000-a-week store, with no variances raised at the last two audits.
  • Trained five new starters on tills and returns; the store ranked third of 14 in the region for customer-service scores in 2025.
  • Rebuilt the weekly staff rota in a shared spreadsheet, cutting unfilled shifts from about four a week to one.
Summer Office Assistant, [Accountancy firm], [City]Jul – Aug 2025 · 6 weeks
  • Reconciled 300 supplier invoices against purchase orders for two small-business clients and flagged 11 mismatches to the manager.
  • Built an Excel tracker for the team's 60 year-end deadlines, used for the rest of the year.
Tutor (self-employed), [City]Sep 2025 – Jun 2026
  • Taught GCSE Mathematics to four students for two hours a week; all four improved by at least two grades in their mocks.

Leadership & activities

First-Year Representative, [University] Investment SocietyOct 2026 – present
  • Elected by 120 first-year members; organise the fortnightly markets briefing and recruited 35 first-years to the society's stock-pitch teams.
  • Pitched a long on a FTSE 250 housebuilder using a comparables table of six peers; the thesis placed third of 22 teams in the society's autumn competition.
Head of House, [School]2025 – 2026
  • Led a house of 160 students and a committee of eight; organised a charity week that raised £3,200, the school's highest total that year.
  • Ran the house's peer-mentoring scheme, pairing 40 younger students with sixth-form mentors each term.
Captain, [School] 1st XI Hockey2025 – 2026
  • Captained a squad of 18 to the county cup semi-final, the team's best result in six years; organised two training sessions a week.

Skills & interests

Technical: Excel (lookups, pivot tables, a three-statement model from the [Course] course), PowerPoint, Python (introductory).

Certifications: Bloomberg Market Concepts; [Course] Excel modelling.

Interests: [one specific interest you can talk about for two minutes, e.g. a sport, a book you would recommend, or a market you follow].

Student CV, London format: Summer Analyst application
[Your Name] — Undergraduate, BSc Economics, predicted First

[City] · [email] · [phone] · linkedin.com/in/[your-name] · Right to work: [status] · Languages: English (native), [language] (professional)

Download as Word (.docx)

Education

[University], BSc EconomicsSep 2024 – Jun 2027 (expected)
  • Predicted First Class; second-year average 74% (Corporate Finance 78%, Econometrics 76%, Financial Accounting 72%).
  • Dissertation: leverage and deal premiums in UK take-privates, using public offer documents for 40 transactions.
  • Relevant modules: Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Econometrics, Mergers and Acquisitions.
  • Awards: [Scholarship], one of 15 awarded across the faculty; Dean's List 2025.
[School], A-levels2022 – 2024

Mathematics A*, Further Mathematics A, Economics A*. Extended Project (A*): why the 2008 UK bank rescues were priced as they were.

Experience

Spring Insight Programme, Investment Banking Division, [Bank], LondonApr 2025 · 1 week
  • Rotated through M&A, Leveraged Finance and ECM; one of four in a cohort of 30 invited to fast-track Summer Analyst interviews.
  • Built a trading-comparables table for eight listed UK consumer brands and presented an EV/EBITDA range to a Vice President.
  • Prepared a two-page profile of a FTSE 250 retailer for a mock pitch; the team's recommendation was scored first of six.
Corporate Finance Intern, [Mid-market advisory firm], [City]Jul – Aug 2025 · 8 weeks
  • Built the precedent-transactions analysis (22 deals) and the football-field valuation page for the pitch on a [sector] business with about £40m of revenue.
  • Drafted six pages of the information memorandum's market and competition section from company data and industry reports.
  • Researched 60 potential trade buyers from company filings and narrowed the long list to the 18 the deal team approached.
Sales Assistant (part-time), [Retailer], [City]Sep 2023 – present · 12 hrs a week
  • Trained four new staff on tills and stock processes; the store ranked second of 14 in the region for customer-service scores.
  • Run the weekly cash-up and stock reconciliation for a £25,000-a-week store, with no variances raised at the last two audits.

Leadership & activities

Head of Research, [University] Investment Society2025 – present
  • Lead a team of 12 analysts; introduced a two-page pitch template and a weekly model review for the society's paper portfolio.
  • Second place of 40 teams in [Competition] stock pitch with a long thesis on a UK mid-cap industrial.
  • Write the society's monthly note on announced UK deals over £100m, sent to 900 members.
Treasurer, [University] Rowing Club2024 – 2025
  • Managed a £38,000 annual budget and renegotiated the boathouse hire, saving £4,500 a year.
  • Organised the club's first alumni dinner (140 guests), raising £9,000 for new equipment.

Skills & interests

Technical: Excel (three-statement model, DCF, LBO from the [Course] training), PowerPoint, Capital IQ, Python (pandas).

Certifications: Bloomberg Market Concepts; [Course] financial modelling.

Interests: [one specific interest you can talk about for two minutes].

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No finance experience yet: five bullet formulas that still fill the page

For spring week applications, and for summer internship applicants whose finance exposure is one line. Use the ones your experience honestly fits.

Part-time or summer job
[Responsibility you were trusted with] + [the money, volume or people involved] + [a result or a check passed]
Ran the Saturday cash-up and stock count for a £25,000-a-week store; no variances at the last two audits.
Society or club committee role
[Role] + [what you organised or changed] + [scale: members, budget, events] + [outcome]
As treasurer, set the £6,000 annual budget for a 180-member society and moved sponsorship invoicing online, cutting late payments from five to none.
Investment society or stock pitch
[What you analysed] + [the method] + [the recommendation] + [how it was judged]
Pitched a long on a FTSE 250 housebuilder using a comparables table of six peers; the thesis placed third of 22 teams.
School leadership or a competition
[Position or event] + [what you were responsible for] + [a number that shows selection or result]
Head of house for 160 students; organised a charity week that raised £3,200, the school's highest total that year.
A skill you taught yourself
[Skill] + [the project you used it on] + [what the project produced]
Taught myself Excel modelling through [Course]; built a three-statement model of a listed retailer and wrote a one-page note on its margins.
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Eight common UK banking CV mistakes

  • Two pages. Banks in London read one A4 page; a second page tells the reader you could not choose.
  • A personal statement at the top. It costs four lines and says what the motivational questions will ask anyway.
  • Leaving out A-level or GCSE grades because you are now at university. Banks screen on them; a missing grade is read as a low one.
  • No numbers in the part-time job. 'Customer service in a busy store' could be anyone; give the hours, the money, the team size or the ranking.
  • Listing 'Excel (advanced)' or 'financial modelling' with nothing on the page that shows it. Interviewers test what the skills line claims.
  • Adjectives instead of evidence: 'passionate about finance', 'strong communicator', 'hard-working'. Every one can be replaced with a line that proves it.
  • Using the US resume format: GPA instead of classification, US Letter paper, no A-levels. Use the conventions of the office you are applying to.
  • The same file for spring weeks, summer internships and off-cycle roles. Each programme is read for something different; reorder the page for it.

Frequently asked questions

What should a spring week CV include if I have no finance experience?
Your grades, then what you have actually done: part-time or summer work, society and sports roles, school leadership, competitions, volunteering and any skill you taught yourself. Spring weeks are aimed at first-years, so finance experience is not expected. What the reader looks for is evidence you take responsibility and follow through, so give each line a number: hours worked, money handled, people organised, a ranking. The spring week template on this page is built that way.
Is an investment banking CV different from an investment banking resume?
The document is the same one page; the conventions differ by office. A London CV is A4 and lists degree classification, A-levels and a GCSE summary; a New York resume is US Letter and lists GPA and sometimes test scores. Use the word and the conventions of the office you are applying to. The investment banking resume guide covers the US format and has a New York Analyst template.
Should I put GCSEs on my investment banking CV?
Yes while you are a student, in one line: the number of GCSEs and the top grades, with Mathematics and English named if they are strong. Many bank application forms ask for school grades anyway, and the CV should agree with the form. Drop the line once you have a full internship or graduate job to show.
How long should an investment banking CV be in the UK?
One A4 page for spring weeks, summer internships, off-cycle internships and graduate Analyst roles. The two-page CV that UK careers services often suggest for other sectors is not used in banking.
Do I need a cover letter for a spring week or summer internship?
Often not. Most large banks use an online form with a CV upload and a few motivational questions instead, and some make a cover letter optional. Read each application: where a cover letter is asked for, write it for that bank and that programme. WadeCV writes a cover letter with every tailored CV, from the CV and the programme description you give it.
Should I write 'predicted First' or 'predicted 2:1'?
Write the classification your university or tutor would support, and back it with marks: 'Predicted First; first-year average 72%'. A predicted grade with no evidence is weaker than an honest 2:1 with strong module marks, and interviewers ask about the numbers on the page.
Should I include a photo or date of birth on a UK banking CV?
No. UK banking CVs carry neither, and neither is needed to assess you. Name, city, contact details, LinkedIn and, where relevant, right to work and languages are enough.
Can I use the same CV for every bank?
Use one CV per programme type, and adjust the top third for each division or bank: lead with the experience closest to what that programme describes. If you apply to many programmes, WadeCV can check your CV against each programme description and reorder and reword it, using only what is already in your CV and the answers you give.

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