Placements starting in August 2026
Apply now for a maximum of two graduate internships.
Graduate internship
Want to get off to a flying start – we offer the perfect entry opportunity
Have you been studying for at least four semesters and are you eager to apply your new knowledge and bring your ideas to life? Then you’ve come to the right place! Over a six-month period, you’ll gain exciting insights into one of Switzerland’s leading financial service providers. And best of all – you can organize your graduate internship flexibly: whether full-time or part-time (60–100%), we offer you the freedom to combine your studies and work however suits you best.
An overview of the graduate internship
Duration |
6 months |
Start |
February and August |
Level of employment |
60% – 100% |
Salary |
CHF 50,000 per annum |
Application period |
13 March to 27 March 2026 to start in August 2026 October 2026 to start in February 2027 |
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In the area of Channel Excellence & Development for private customers, you can play an active role in developing our physical sales and the Customer Center. You’ll analyse and optimize processes, drive digitization forward and contribute your ideas to strengthen our Customer Center agents and customer advisors in the long term.
You’ll work closely with our customer advisors and customer center agents, be in direct contact with them and receive immediate feedback on the solutions you have implemented. This means that you will be able to see directly what impact your work has on everyday work on the front line and how you can create real added value. You can also gradually take on responsibility in projects, work with central bodies across all units and actively contribute the perspective of the decentralized units. You’ll be supported in this by experienced specialists.
Preferred fields of study:
Business administration or business informatics
Do you have any questions about the job?
Mandy Pössel, Business Excellence Privatkunden, Tel. +41 79 449 60 48
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As someone with a clear grasp of legal, economic and corporate aspects and how they relate to each other, are you looking to play an active role in successfully guaranteeing the integrity of PostFinance in the long term? You’re a bit of a Sherlock Holmes and enjoy researching, ensuring that customer activities comply with regulatory requirements? If so, our Compliance Office is just the place for you! With us, you’ll have the opportunity to assess business customer relationships, taking into account legal and regulatory requirements, and to write editorially flawless and very precise reports. You’ll get to know our customers’ business activities through research and direct customer contact and acquire know-how in risk assessment during your graduate internship.
Preferred fields of study:
Law or economics
Do you have any questions about the job?
Racine Gaye, Team Leader, tel. +41 58 453 42 82
Adisa Hadzic, Specialist, tel. + 41 58 453 43 56 -
In the Corporate Venture Capital team, we focus on innovative solutions in the financial sector. We are the eyes and ears of the market and help to ensure that PostFinance doesn’t miss out on any important market developments. With us, you have the opportunity to engage with startups that are helping to shape the future of financial transactions. Your entrepreneurial thinking and curiosity will help you to evaluate these startups and discover new trends. In our team, you’ll learn to make decisions based on minimal information and a great deal of uncertainty.
Preferred fields of study:
Economics or natural sciences
Do you have any questions about the job?
Tobias Bassi, Head of Corporate Venture Capital, email: tobias.bassi@postfinance.ch
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Would you like to play an active role in shaping the future of PostFinance and contribute to continuous, customer-centric process optimization? Analyse PostFinance’s processes with us so that we can work with line managers to develop process and organizational optimizations for greater efficiency and higher customer satisfaction.
Preferred fields of study:
Economics
Do you have any questions about the job?
Lisa Bütikofer, Lead Fachteam PEX, Tel. +41 583 86 46 37
Albulena Fetahaj, Stv. Lead Fachteam PEX, Tel.+41 79 123 18 80 -
You want to know how PostFinance ensures its employees’ integrity, addresses improper practices and maintains its excellent reputation. You’re interested in how to recognize and track legislative changes and how to implement them. You want to actively collaborate on development projects in these areas, strengthening and shaping PostFinance’s risk culture in the long term. Then you’re in the right place at Governance & Regulatory Affairs.
Preferred fields of study:
Economics or law
Do you have any questions about the job?
Boris Indraccolo, Integrity Management, Governance & Regulatory Affairs Specialist, tel. +41 76 498 92 67
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Would you like to experience how modern bank IT works in the background and how systems communicate with each other? At Integration Services, you’re in the thick of things: you connect applications, data and integration partners via APIs, events and modern integration platforms, and you help to ensure that central banking services run reliably. You immerse yourself in real end‑to‑end integrations, get to know new technologies and can contribute your ideas directly to analysis, concept and implementation. A graduate internship with us means genuine responsibility, modern technologies and working on solutions that are used by thousands of customers every day.
Preferred fields of study:
Business informatics or in a related field
Do you have any questions about the job?
Stephan Vetsch, Solution Team Lead Integration Services, tel. +41 76 389 12 53
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As the Market Research team, we ensure that decisions and measures are taken on the basis of sound knowledge of customers and markets. We represent the customer perspective within the company and use professional research to create important decision-making bases for various specialist units and relevant decision-makers.
In your graduate internship, you will help us to gather and analyse findings from surveys, to structure them clearly and to present them comprehensibly so that they can be used effectively in the company. If you enjoy precise working and would like to contribute to incorporating and anchoring customer insights into the company, then you’re just the right person for us!
Preferred fields of study:
Social sciences, economics, psychology, sociology or political science
Do you have any questions about the job?
Lars Thorenz, Senior Project Manager Market Research, tel. +41 79 241 49 12
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Are you interested in financial markets and would you like to put the theoretical knowledge from your studies into practice in a bank? If so, our risk management team is the ideal place to start. We are responsible for fully monitoring PostFinance’s financial risks and ensuring a balanced risk-return profile in the investment business. In this exciting environment, you will learn about key concepts, methods and processes of modern risk management and be able to develop systematically according to your strengths.
In your role, you will measure and analyse credit risks using existing models, interpret the results and prepare them in a way that is suitable for the target audience. At the same time, you will support us with the conceptual development of the modelling of credit risks and actively contribute to the realization, implementation and validation of model adjustments. You will also take responsibility for preparing our regular risk reports to Senior Management.
Preferred fields of study:
Physics, mathematics, informatics, engineering, economics or business administration
Do you have any questions about the job?
Roger Traber, Risk Management, tel. +41 79 744 00 61
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You don’t want to just watch, but also to help shape things? As a graduate intern in Strategy Portfolio Management at PostFinance, you’ll be directly involved in implementing our “Pulse” corporate strategy – with real insight into decisions made at Executive Board level. You’ll help manage a strategic portfolio, prepare data and reports, and learn how to bring strategy to life in one of Switzerland’s leading financial institutions.
Preferred fields of study:
Economics, business informatics or in a related field
Do you have any questions about the job?
Raphael Bapst, Strategie Portfolio Manager, Tel. + 41 79 551 55 61
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VNTR is PostFinance’s innovation and venturing initiative, consisting of a team of investors, innovators and future thinkers. We work to ensure that PostFinance remains relevant in the future. VNTR covers a broad spectrum of innovation activities, including foresight, open innovation, venture building and corporate venture capital. In community & brand management, you will help to position VNTR’s mission with internal and external stakeholders. You will also support exciting projects in the innovation fields of regenerative innovation, autonomous AI (in finance), bio-digital integration and Web 3.0, gaining insights into our craft.
Preferred fields of study:
Economics, business administration, psychology, IT, design management or marketing
Do you have any questions about the job?
Olivia Deubelbeiss, Lead Communication, Tel.+41 794 41 16 08
livier Weiss, Lead Foresight, Tel. +41 79 676 06 54
The advantages for you
Professional and personal development
- You’ll be introduced to your tasks by an experienced and highly motivated intern supervisor and will soon take responsibility for your own assignments.
- Regular development and feedback meetings throughout the entire graduate internship will help you to constantly improve.
- In addition to your work in this specialist unit, you’ll have the chance to undertake mini-internships at our Customer Center, a branch and the accounting department so you get to know our business inside out.
Developing your network at PostFinance
- You’ll obtain a good insight into your specialist unit, while also working closely with colleagues from other units too.
- The close contact and networking events with the other trainees and graduate interns means you’ll develop an extensive network.
What you need to offer as a graduate intern
Different skills are needed to meet requirements depending on the specialist unit. We’re looking for graduate interns who think and act boldly, i.e. doers.
What you’ll offer:
- You are in at least the fourth semester of a Bachelor’s degree (university/university of applied sciences), or completed your degree no more than two years before the start of the programme.
- You have a strong command of German.
- Joined-up and customer-focused thinking and action go without saying in your case.
- You’re a friendly person with an inquisitive mind, you have a strong desire to learn and are assertive.
Apply for a graduate internship now – here’s how
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Apply online for the graduate internship via our vacancies page. For a full application, we just need your CV and references. It is not necessary to submit a cover letter. You’ll immediately receive an automatic confirmation of receipt after sending your application.
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We’ll take the time to look at your documents. You can follow the status of your application at any time via your The link will open in a new window candidate profile.
- If your application matches the profile we’re looking for, we’ll let you know about the next stages in the process.
- If we’re unable to consider your application, you’ll receive a written rejection letter.
Due to the large number of applications, we are unable to provide individual feedback for every rejected candidate. We appreciate your understanding. Maybe you’ll be successful next time? Find out about current exciting job opportunities via our Jobmail or join our PostFinance Talent Community so you’re the first to know as soon as we have internship vacancies .
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We look forward to getting to know the person behind the application better. You’ll be invited to attend one or two interviews in Bern. We want to get to know you better as a person to decide whether we’re a good fit. At the interviews, you’ll find out more about PostFinance, your tasks and the general conditions.
We advise you to take the opportunity to ask lots of questions so you can make the best decision for you and your career.
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After we’ve thoroughly evaluated all candidates, we’ll call you to let you know our decision.
If you’re offered the job, we’ll send you confirmation of employment and then your personal individual employment contract. You’ve done it! Congratulations and welcome to PostFinance. We look forward to working with you.
Even if you’re unsuccessful this time, make sure to keep in touch with us and subscribe to our Jobmail. We’d be delighted if you applied again.
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In the first few weeks you will get to know your team, your tasks and the relevant tools. You’ll also attend your first information and networking event with the other interns and the entry programme managers. At the “Welcome to PostFinance” event, you will meet many other new employees, expand your network and find out about our strategy, vision and the various units.
Get to know our current and former graduate interns
Do you want to know what to expect from a graduate internship at PostFinance? Our former and current graduate interns will give you personal insights into their experiences: from exciting projects and personal responsibility to new career prospects. Get inspired − and discover the opportunities that are available to you.
