University Recruiting2023-11-16T19:50:05+00:00

Welcome Students!

Comerica Bank is proud to participate in outreach and recruitment efforts to hire undergraduate and graduate talent. We have a variety of development programs designed to help college graduate students develop the skills and experience necessary for a successful career. Representatives are on campuses in the spring and fall across several of our primary geographical markets.

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Comerica Bank Emerging Talent Development Programs

Commercial Underwriting Program2021-12-13T17:04:12+00:00

The Commercial Underwriting Program is offered in the following Comerica markets:

  • Costa Mesa, California
  • San Jose, California
  • Detroit, Michigan
  • Dallas, Texas
  • Houston, Texas

Commercial Underwriting Program
The Commercial Underwriting Program is one our foundational credit training programs of the Commercial Bank. The program is designed to jumpstart a challenging career as a Credit professional within Commercial Underwriting. In this program, you will build a strong credit foundation and develop technical underwriting skills within one or more of our Commercial Bank Lines of Business.

Program Structure and Development Opportunities

  • 18 – 24-month training program with blended learning experience, including classroom and on-the-job training
  • Professional career development through assessments, coaching, team building, and mentoring
  • Exposure to senior and executive leadership
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment
  • Gain in-depth knowledge of lending and non-lending products and services, including Treasury Management, Wealth Management, International Trade Services, Foreign Exchange, and Global Capital Markets
  • Lines of Business:  Business Banking, Middle Market, Private Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Large Corporate, Technology Life Sciences, Equity Fund Services, Environmental Services, Mortgage Banker Finance, International, National Dealer Services, Energy

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare loan approval packages, in partnership with Relationship Managers and Portfolio Managers, for credit decisioning
  • Provide complete analysis of loan approval package for new credit requests, as well as annual reviews of existing relationships, utilizing the various underwriting methods as established by Credit Administration
  • Analyze financial information to identify key strengths and credit risks and mitigating factors associated with credit requests.
  • Determine appropriate loan structures and banking solutions to meet customer needs
  • Monitor credit exposure for portfolio relationships

Seeking candidates with:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and technical aptitude
  • Time management skills and ability to handle multiple assignments
  • Strong customer focus

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Two (2) Accounting courses (minimum 6 credit hours)
  • 1 year of experience with Microsoft Office Applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, or similar degree field
  • Two Accounting courses (6 credit hours)
  • Overall GPA of 3.0 and 3.0 GPA in two Accounting courses
  • 1 year of experience with Microsoft Office Applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Demonstrated leadership and strong verbal and written communication skills

Note:

  • Transcripts are required prior to formal interview
  • Will consider applicants 9 months prior to the completion of their bachelor’s degree or MBA
    • Employment to begin post-graduation
  • Degree (as described above) must be completed and verified prior to official start date
Corporate Financial Analyst Rotational Program2021-12-13T17:14:27+00:00

Corporate Financial Analyst Rotational Program

Program Structure and Development Opportunities:

The Financial Analyst is a part of a 24-month rotational program completing four six-month rotations among various groups in finance and other related departments. During the program, the Financial Analyst will be provided structured training, management support in career development, and a diverse experience across the Bank to help them succeed.

  • Accounting Policy/ Financial Reporting
  • Business Finance
  • Corporate Planning and Development
  • Economics
  • Financial Planning and Analysis
  • Investor Relations
  • Corporate Treasury

Seeking candidates with:

  • Customer focus
  • Listening skills
  • Intellectual horsepower
  • Interpersonal savvy
  • Dependability
  • Strong time management skills
  • Strong integrity and trustworthiness
  • The ability to develop positive peer relationships

Key Responsibilities

  • Immersing oneself in the work responsibilities of each area, in order to learn the importance of the area and how it supports the Bank
  • Learning the technology and systems used by each area
  • Gaining an understanding of the organizational structures, general business knowledge and the analysis of portfolios and financial statements
  • Assisting other analysts in the group in accumulating and reviewing relevant information on Loan and Deposit balances, net interest margin and spread data, and non-interest income and expenses

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance
  • 3.0 (GPA) overall grade point average or better
  • 3 Accounting classes (minimum 9 credit hours)

Note:

  • Transcripts are required prior to formal interview
  • Will consider applicants 9 months prior to the completion of their bachelor’s degree or MBA
    • Employment to begin post-graduation
  • Degree (as described above) must be completed and verified prior to official start date
Commercial Banking Development Program2021-12-13T17:20:32+00:00

Your first step to becoming a Relationship Manager at Comerica is to successfully complete Comerica’s Commercial Banking Training Program. Designed to be the very best of its kind in the industry, the program is taught by experienced Comerica colleagues with invaluable real-world, on-the-job expertise. Training program includes classroom training followed by continuing education and development opportunities.

Classroom Training

JumpStart Training will familiarize you with the Comerica philosophy and organization, followed by a Credit College that provides you with formalized training and credit concepts, as well as Comerica’s approach to commercial credit analysis and underwriting.

On the Job

We provide exposure to a variety of commercial lending groups. You’ll learn to underwrite loans and assess credit risk to the bank as well as accompany Relationship Managers on customer calls and meetings. It all starts with the industry’s premier training program. Then, we give you responsibilities that are both wide-ranging and diverse, which make sense in an organization that encourages your professional and personal growth.

Continuing Education

This will introduce you to various Comerica products and the banking industry and will enhance your professional development. Your continued career growth at Comerica is key to your success and ours.

Your Career

A Commercial Banking career at Comerica offers you the chance to make a true impact and a real difference. After successful completion of the Commercial Banking Training Program, Credit Analyst’s most often promote to become a Portfolio Manager as a path to taking on a Relationship Manager position within the organization. Portfolio Managers and Relationship Managers assist companies with their financial needs while working in collaboration to manage a commercial loan portfolio. Our bankers become true financial partners to our clients. Your partnership will play an important role in helping them develop their long-term goals with the right financial strategies, while building and strengthening the bank’s relationships with its customers.

Advancement opportunities are determined by performance and business needs and will take approximately two years.

What it Takes

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business or Economics
  • 3.0 (GPA) overall grade point average (GPA will be calculated by using grades for all credit hours/classes that are applied towards degree including transferred credits)
  • 2 Accounting classes (3.0 average GPA)

Note:

  • Transcripts are required prior to formal interview.
  • Will consider applicants 9 months prior to the completion of their bachelor’s degree or MBA. Employment to begin post-graduation.
  • Degree (as described above) must be completed and verified prior to official start date.
  • Candidates will be required to attend credit training in Dallas, TX for 2 weeks

Take the first step to discovering what your future holds, by exploring and applying to our opportunities. Click here and enter “Commercial Banking Training Program” in the WHAT search field.

Commercial Banking Training Program career opportunities are located in California, Michigan and Texas.

Technology Engineering Collective2021-06-29T14:57:23+00:00

Everything we know is changing – how we live, communicate, entertain and inform ourselves. This is the new reality. It’s fast, disruptive and constantly shifting with the pace of technological innovation.

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before, and the speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedent.The challenge for organizations is not keeping with change but facing the real opportunity. Our future interactions will be more complex, interdependent and deeply personalized – influenced by a new generation of consumers, who are growing up in a data-driven world of experiences.

The future is now.

The Technology and Engineering Collective is a comprehensive development program designed to help participants grow in the Technology and Engineering space. The program involves three separate eight-month rotations created specifically for engineering, product, project/program management and infrastructure operations career tracks. Embedded in this program are opportunities to interface with Senior Leadership, Vendors and External Partners in the Technology and Innovation industry.

After successful completion of a chosen career track, participants will work with leadership to identify a position that aligns best with their experience and performance and will further advance their career at Comerica.

Position Responsibilities

During Career Tracks, participants will advance in each rotation through opportunities to:

  • Develop strong connections with colleagues and leadership
  • Own new and creative projects within their department
  • Understand how a large Technology organization operates
  • Understand the Banking business
  • Grow and improve their problem-solving, technical and business skills
  • Present and make recommendations to Executive leadership
  • Attend training programs and off-site events
  • Demonstrate their interest to be promoted

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited University in, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineer, Systems Engineer, Computer Science, I/O Engineering, Management Information Systems, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, Information Analytics or Information Management
  • 3.0 (GPA) overall grade point average
  • 1 year of experience leading or participating in group projects
  • 1 year of collaborating with others to solve business problems

Technology Engineering Collective career opportunities are located in Michigan.

Summer Internships

Technical Intern2021-06-29T15:32:34+00:00

The Technical Internship is a highly structured program within functional areas of the Information Services department.

What it Takes

  • Working towards a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineer, Systems Engineer, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, I/O Engineering, Management Information Systems, Software Engineering or Telecommunications and Information Technology
  • 3.0 overall grade point average (GPA will be calculated by using grades for all credit hours/classes that are applied towards degree including transferred credits)

Take the first step to discovering what your future holds, by exploring and applying to our opportunities. Click here and enter “Intern” in the WHAT search field.

Intern opportunities are located in Michigan.

Audit College Intern2021-06-29T15:17:48+00:00

The Audit College Internship is a highly structured program in which interns will learn to analyze and evaluate the adequacy of internal controls.

What it Takes

  • College level of Junior or Senior Status
  • Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Business major
  • Overall GPA of 3.0 or better
  • Two Accounting courses completed
  • Six months experience Microsoft Office products, Word and Excel
  • Six months project coordination/participation experience

Take the first step to discovering what your future holds, by exploring and applying to our opportunities. Click here and enter “Intern” in the WHAT search field.

Intern opportunities are located in Michigan.

Commercial and Private Banking Intern2021-06-29T15:24:21+00:00

Comerica Bank offers a Commercial and Private Banking Internship for students interested in business banking. Whether you desire to become future relationship managers, portfolio managers, or an underwriter this will be a great opportunity. This comprehensive 10-week internship program will provide students the opportunity to experience first-hand the relationship banking environment that has defined Comerica’s strong ties to clients, colleagues and communities for over 165 years.

Internship responsibilities include:

Portfolio Management Support

  • Collect and monitor financial information
  • Work with Portfolio Manager and Relationship Managers on client support

Sales Support

  • Industry research
  • Preparation of marketing materials
  •  Prospect identification

Project: Prospect Identification and Marketing Plan Development

  • Work with the team to understand the target customer profile
  • Leverage resources such as LinkedIn, publications, etc. to identify prospects
  • Use industry research to develop value proposition and marketing plan with the Relationship Mgr.
  • Create an introductory presentation for the prospect meetings

Introduction to Underwriting

  • Observe the process for spreading financial statements and underwriting loans

Interns will also have opportunities to:

  • Have an experienced Relationship Mgr. as a mentor
  • Observe how new business is generated through referrals, prospecting and networking
  • Network with executives within the lending division
  • Meet with leaders within the Credit organization
  • Meet with product partners assigned to the team to learn about Treasury Management, Commercial Card, Merchant Services and Global Capital Markets solutions
  • Participate in training opportunities offered by Comerica

What it Takes

  • College level of Junior or Senior Status
  • Accounting, Finance, Business major preferred
  • Overall GPA of 3.0 or above
  • Two Accounting courses completed
  • Six months experience Microsoft Office products, Word and Excel
  • The ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Previous customer service and sales experience preferred

Commercial and Private Banking career opportunities are located in Texas.

Enterprise Risk Quantitative Analytics Intern2021-06-29T15:28:41+00:00

The Enterprise Risk Quantitative Analytics College Intern will learn quantitative and financial model development. Successful incumbents possess intellectual horsepower, time management skills, written communication skills, have process management skills and the ability to prioritize.

Internship responsibilities include:

  • Support quantitative and financial model development activities including data manipulation, model building and documentation.
  • Multiple projects may be assigned.
  • Some projects can be geared towards financial data manipulation while others may be more related to model development and documentation.
  • Enhance and develop communication and problem solving skills.
  • Additional responsibilities as assigned by Enterprise Risk Management.
  • This internship is scheduled for the summer only.

What it Takes

  • Graduate students (MS or PhD) in the areas of Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, and Financial Engineering.
  • Background in regression/statistical techniques, strong data manipulation
  • Programming skills in SAS, STATA, Python, SQL or equivalent software programs
  • Excellent interpersonal skills

The Enterprise Risk Quantitative Analytics Internship opportunities are located in Texas and report to the SVP, Enterprise Risk Director.

Wealth Management & Investment Intern2021-06-29T15:31:50+00:00

The Personal Wealth Management and Investment Intern will learn the roles and responsibilities within the department they are assigned. During the internship, the Personal Wealth Management and Investment Intern will be provided with structured training, management support in career development, and a diverse experience across the Bank to help them succeed.

The Personal Wealth and Investment Intern will have the opportunity to explore one of the following areas:

  • Wealth Planning
  • Investment Banking
  • National Sales and Strategy

Internship responsibilities include:

  • Conducting research and analyzing data and information
  • Preparing reports and presentations for clients and division management
  • Attending internal and external meetings as possible
  • Learning Comerica’s investment strategies, reviewing current and potential asset managers, compiling and analyzing historical financial data, and conducting quantitative and graphical analyses.

What it Takes

  • Rising Junior and/or Senior level student
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance
  • 3.0 (GPA) overall grade point average or better (GPA will be calculated by using grades for all credit hours/classes that are applied towards degree including transferred credits)
  • 2 Accounting classes successfully completed
  • Completion of an Assets Analysis/Management course preferred for candidates interested in Investment Banking
  • 6 months experience with Microsoft Word and Excel

Note:

  • Transcripts are required prior to formal interview.
  • Will consider applicants 9 months prior to the completion of their Bachelor’s Degree or MBA.
  • Degree (as described above) must be completed and verified prior to official start date.

The Personal Wealth Management & Investment Internship opportunities are located in Texas.