What you'll do

Job Description & Program Overview

Our Global Markets business offers sales and trading services, including research, to institutional clients across fixed-income, credit, currency, and commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets product coverage includes securities and derivative products in both the primary and secondary markets.

Our Commodities Summer Analyst Program includes formal training and rotations through commodity desks including structuring/origination, sales, oil, natural gas, power, and investor products. Interns will have the opportunity to work across sales and trading functions.

As an analyst in Sales, you will focus on building and maintaining relationships with clients by matching our services to their needs. This includes interaction with portfolio managers, research analysts and traders relaying investment research, relevant market information and marketing ideas.

As an analyst in Trading, you will add value in a support role, increasing your knowledge through reading financial publications, shadowing traders, talking to sales, generating and monitoring trade ideas, and more.

Further intern responsibilities may include:

• Work on specific commodity-related transactions, including deal valuation and structuring as well as participate in internal and external discussion developing structured deal solutions for customers.
• Assist market strategists and traders to integrate fundamental points of view with trading strategies.
• Work with teams to develop marketing presentations, develop models, assimilate historical data and generate reports that create interest in commodities and develop new business.

Qualifications

• Candidates are required to be pursuing a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a graduation timeframe between December 2025 and June 2026
• 3.2 minimum GPA preferred.
• Candidates must demonstrate a combination of academic aptitude, quantitative skills, strategic and creative thinking, and strong written and oral communications skills.
• Superior analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to manage several projects at once.
• Ability to work effectively as an individual and as part of a team.
• Other desired characteristics include integrity, attention to detail, assertiveness, initiative, leadership, strong work ethic and team focus.
• Strong interest in global financial markets and commodities sector and keen interest in complex structures is preferred.
• Knowledge of financial derivatives and global energy markets, in addition to a background in accounting, economics, mathematics, engineering, statistics, or programming background a plus

Bank of America does not complete third party forms from colleges, universities, or other parties.

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading.