Sixth Form

18 Nov Sixth Form

We were lucky enough to have a visiting speaker from the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, Michael Llewelyn-Jones, who delived a presentation last week.

Michael has just completed his year as “Master” and prior to this was Chairman and Managing Director of Citibank. He has a wealth of experience within the industry having also been an Account Manager for Citibank looking after clients such as Shell.

Michael came in to speak to Sixth Form students, plus a couple of invited KS4 students, about what Investment banking is, its history and the way it works. He also briefly covered the variety of jobs that can be researched in the banking sector as a whole. During his talk, he explained about how investment bankers work mainly on mergers and acquisitions, Capital Markets or Foreign Exchange Markets.  He outlined the difficulties that there have been with the industry and showed how world events affect their revenue and outcomes.

Michael explained the various routes into the sector and gave some top tips about the degree programmes that would help students in their quest for a position (captivating their attention with a starting salary example!). Michael spent quite a lot of time after his actual talk, speaking 1:1 with students answering a whole range of questions.

Jay Batchelor, Year 13, attended the talk and wrote: “I thought that the speaker was very interesting and engaging. It gave me a real insight into what investment banking is actually about and how it works.  It helped to give me a better understanding of what I want to do after university and how to do it.”

We are very grateful to Michael for giving up his time to come and spend time with JRCS students.

We look forward to more outside speakers offering their insight to different sectors of work as the year progresses.

Miss Campbell

Deputy Director of Sixth Form