Where to Look
Application trackers, social media accounts, and university portals. All in one place.
Finding opportunities in UK finance is mostly a sourcing problem. The roles exist, firms recruit early, and the windows are predictable. But you have to be in the right places to see them. This page pulls together the trackers that list what is open, the accounts that surface new listings in your regular feed, and the university portals you already have access to. Start here.
Application Trackers
These two trackers update regularly with live openings. Check them at the start of each term and whenever you have five minutes. Deadlines move fast in UK finance.
The Bristol Tracker
The go-to community-maintained tracker for UK finance. Covers spring weeks, insight days, summer internships, and graduate roles, with deadlines included. Updated by students, so it moves faster than most official sources. Check it at the start of every term.
Open Tracker AggregatorCareer26 Jobs
Aggregates early careers opportunities across finance and professional services. Worth bookmarking alongside the Bristol Tracker. They each pick up listings the other sometimes misses.
Open TrackerAccounts to Follow
You are already spending hours on TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn every day. If you follow the right accounts, opportunities show up in your regular scroll without you having to go looking for them. Turn on post notifications for the accounts below and you will catch new listings the moment they go up.
More accounts coming soon.
University Careers Portals
Before you go anywhere else, set up your profile on the platforms KCL already pays for. Both have exclusive listings that never hit the public trackers, and a lot of first years simply don't know they exist.
King's CareerConnect
KCL's own jobs and placements portal. Employers post listings here that are exclusive to KCL students, and some early access schemes never get advertised publicly. Set up your profile in the first few weeks of first year.
Open PortalHandshake
A graduate jobs platform used by hundreds of UK universities, including KCL. Employers post roles here, often before they go anywhere else. Activate your account with your KCL email address.
Open PortalSet Up Your Alerts
This takes about ten minutes and makes discovery automatic. Once it's done, deadlines come to you. You don't have to remember to check anything.
- Follow the graduate recruitment pages of firms you're interested in on LinkedIn, and turn on post notifications. You'll see new openings in your feed the moment they go live.
- Enable email alerts and deadline reminders on the Bristol Tracker and Career26 so you get notified when new roles are added, before the deadline has passed.
- Turn on post notifications for the TikTok and Instagram accounts listed above. It only takes a second and you'll catch postings as soon as they go up.
- Set up email alerts on Bright Network, TargetJobs, and Handshake, filtered to finance and investment roles. Opportunities land in your inbox automatically rather than you having to visit each site.
When to Apply: Seasonal Timeline
Most opportunities follow predictable windows across the academic year. Here is roughly when each one opens, so you know what is coming and can start preparing rather than reacting.
Timings are approximate and vary by firm. Always check individual deadlines.