Commercial Bank Rotational Analyst

Turn to Key for a rewarding career opportunity

The Commercial Bank Analyst Program is a two-year journey where you’ll explore your interests, build broad and deep financial skills, and gain the experience needed to pursue future opportunities across the bank. You’ll rotate within sales, product, and/or strategy teams to work alongside business leaders and make real contributions to our clients and communities.

Analysts will develop skills in credit risk, business analysis, and banking. Essential job functions include spreading and analyzing financial data, conducting period reviews of client credit relationships, testing data integrity, working with various systems and models, communicating with various credit and sales professionals, and conducting analyses and underwriting of existing and new credit transactions.

About the program

The Commercial Bank Rotational Analyst Program offers three distinct cohort tracks.

The Business Development Banker Cohort focuses on commercial banking sales, client-facing relationship strategy, credit structuring, and portfolio support, with Year 1 credit training in Cleveland, OH, and Year 2 market immersion in strategic markets.

The Business Development Payments Cohort is centered on client-facing treasury solutions, liquidity optimization, working capital, fraud prevention, and consultative problem-solving, offering two 12-month rotations in Cleveland, OH, supporting Middle Market and Institutional clients.

The Product, Risk & Operations Cohort focuses on internal product and operations excellence, risk management, onboarding and servicing, and strategy execution, with two 12-month rotations in Cleveland, OH, across Product, Risk, Commercial Onboarding & Servicing (COS), and Operations.

Analysts work alongside business leaders and subject matter experts, gaining cross-bank exposure and early client visibility from the start of the program. The two-year structure is designed to provide a development pathway to high-trajectory commercial banking roles, equipping Analysts with transferrable skills and a cohort network that extends well beyond the program.

What does the program offer?

Development pathway to high-trajectory commercial banking roles:

  • Two deep-dive rotations to build lasting expertise
  • Hands-on training to develop valuable skills
  • Mentorship, coaching, and clear growth feedback
  • Cross-bank exposure and early client visibility
  • Cohort connections that last beyond the program
  • Lunch & Learns with leaders and team-building events
  • 24/7 access to digital resources that fuel growth 

What are we looking for?

Bachelor’s or graduate degree by May 2027 (Finance, Economics, Accounting, Data/Analytics, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business, or related)

  • Minimum 3.3 GPA preferred
  • Strong communication, teamwork, strategic thinking, and work ethic
  • Willingness to relocate based on business need
  • Prior relevant experience preferred

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