Students

Your courage takes us further

Want to gain professional experience while studying? Or perhaps you’ve graduated and are looking to start your career? Then take a look at the wide range of options for launching your career at PostFinance and join our team.

Entry-level opportunities

PostFinance provides students and university graduates with a wide range of entry-level opportunities and exciting prospects. Whether you start with us as an graduate intern, while writing your thesis, as a trainee or through direct entry – you can look forward to exciting challenges in a dynamic environment, highly motivated colleagues and many opportunities to grow and develop.

Graduate internship

Start your career by joining us as a university intern

Start time: February and August

Duration: 6 months

Find out more about the graduate internship
Trainee programme

Already got a university degree under your belt? Then join our trainee programme.

Start time: March

Duration: 12 months

Find out more Go to the trainee programme
Theses

PostFinance will support you with writing your thesis and give you the chance to do so in an exciting area. Send an e-mail to hochschuleinstieg@postfinance.ch and tell us about the topics you have in mind. We will then be pleased to consider with our experts how we can support you.
Direct entry

Already know where you’d like to start your career? Then apply for our direct-entry positions.

Start time: at any time of the year

Find out more about direct entry after your studies
IT entry programme

Your start as a tech entrepreneur

Have you just completed your training and now want to get started in the IT world? Are you not afraid to take on responsibility for IT projects right from the start, and do want to contribute your ideas? Then become a tech entrepreneur with us.

Start date: March and September

Duration: 12 to 18 months

Find out more zum Direkteinstieg nach Studium

Why PostFinance?

We’re Switzerland’s leading financial services provider and shape technological developments on the financial market. TWINT, Yuh and Valuu have all come from ideas put forward by our employees
Our trainee retention rate has been 91 percent in recent years
You can freely select an employment level between 80 and 100 percent for our entry programmes – completely in line with your requirements
90 percent of our employees recommend us as an attractive employer according to our current employee survey

What we offer

A unique work culture with lots of freedom, innovation and flexibility.
You’ll have the chance to work from your home office or our co-working spaces several times a week. There’s often a set team day on site, otherwise you can work flexibly throughout Switzerland.
We’ll support you in your development and with achieving your career goals, including through our extensive internal range of professional development opportunities.
We understand you need to unwind. That’s why you’re entitled to six weeks’ leave a year.
As well as a free Half Fare Travelcard or a discounted GA Travelcard, there are many other attractive discounts with Swiss Post employee offers.

Read our pioneer blog to find out about further exciting reasons to undertake a graduate internship or trainee programme at PostFinance.

Get to know us

Find out more about how you can shape the Swiss financial market. Get to know our employees and PostFinance as an employer at the following (virtual) events.

When	Where
When 6 March 2025	Where Conecto ZHAW 2025
When 18 March 2025	Where FHNW Career Day
When 26 March 2025	Where Graduate fair, Bern
When 27 March 2025	Where Career event at the University of Lucerne
When 16 October 2025	Where IT-Day Zürich

Do you have any questions about our career entry programmes?

If you have any questions or want to find out more about our career entry programmes, you can contact Lakshana or Nayana. They would be delighted to hear from you!