2025 BNY Summer Internship Program – BNY Wealth (Chicago, IL) - BNY Mellon

Overview

2025 BNY Summer Internship Program – BNY Wealth

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere. 

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. 

We welcome you to apply! When applying to this general internship program posting, our expert BNY Talent Acquisition Team may also review your resume for consideration across other open early career roles within the company. 

We’re seeking future team members for BNY Wealth with roles located in Chicago, IL in hybrid positions.

Summer Internship Program  

The BNY Summer Internship Program provides high-potential students with a well-rounded, rewarding 10-week internship experience, as well as an inside look into what it is like to work for a global financial services organization that has been innovating and serving clients since 1784.  With projects specifically chosen to both challenge and develop participants, our summer interns will gain valuable real-world experiences while learning to work together in collaborative teams and building a robust network within BNY.  

From day one, summer interns are immersed in BNY’s innovative and dynamic company culture as they will receive:    

• Enterprise-led intern orientation program combined with ongoing an executive speaker series and virtual training curriculum designed specifically for summer interns  
• Meaningful and challenging work assignments that deliver learning and skill development through practical work, mentorship, and training  
• Career development and networking support from a host of corporate leaders including internship managers, senior and peer mentors, business stakeholders and a dedicated program manager  
• Exposure to different areas of business throughout the organization
• Comprehensive professional etiquette and financial services fundamentals training, along with technical and business acumen development  
• Understanding of BNY’s commitment to diversity and inclusion  
• A collaborative and supportive community with full commitment of top-level management to deliver a premier internship/talent pipeline program within the financial services industry    

BNY Wealth

For more than two centuries, BNY Wealth has provided services to financially successful individuals and families, their family offices and business enterprises, planned giving programs, and endowments and foundations. It has $286 billion in total client assets as of June 30, 2023, and an extensive network of offices in the U.S. and internationally. BNY Wealth, which delivers leading wealth advice across investments, banking, custody, and wealth and estate planning, conducts business through various operating subsidiaries of The Bank of New York Corporation. For more information, visit www.bnymellonwealth.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellonWealth.

In year’s past, we have placed interns in the following areas of BNY Wealth:

US Markets - Our multidisciplinary Active Wealth approach is structured around five core strategies and utilizes the same practices and discipline employed in institutional asset management. This helps ensure every financial decision actively and intentionally powers our clients' goals.  Invest, Protect, Manage, Borrow and Spend, these are our five core strategies that are the pillars of how we advise clients. This segment of BNY Wealth is focused on direct relationship management, investment management, estate planning and administration of High Net Worth Clients and their assets.  

Private Banking - Offering extensive cash management and credit solutions family offices need to invest and manage wealth. Sophisticated financing strategies include credit facilities to create liquidity for complex investment allocation strategies, secured and unsecured lending, hedging strategies, jumbo mortgages and more.

Fiduciary - ensures family trusts are administered the way they were intended.

Family Office - Services we offer include family governance, philanthropic advisory, technology consulting and trust planning. We also offer educational resources that include everything from financial education and leadership development to family succession planning, along with cyber, physical and personal risk best practices.

Program Eligibility: 

• Enrollment in a 4-year undergraduate degree program with a strong focus on business and technology, with specific emphasis on finance, economics, marketing, communication, and/or data analytics; however open to all majors with an individual interested in the financial services industry 
• Individuals who will be graduating in December 2025 through June 2026 
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better 
• Well-rounded experience including demonstrated leadership skills 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Not require sponsorship for employment visa status (now or in the future) in the region where they apply.  

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:  

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024 
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024 
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024 
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024 
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024 
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024 
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023 

Our Benefits and Rewards:  

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.  

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. 

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

EEO Statement:

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.