View Vacancy - DBT Financial and Professional Services Intern

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Department for Business and Trade roles (DBT)
Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

Provide administrative support and commercial engagement to the Financial & Professional Services team within the Commercial Section (Department for Business and Trade) at the British Embassy in Mexico City. The position will report to the Financial and Professional Services Trade Officer in the team.

The successful candidate is expected to carry out research and administrative tasks as well as support with events (in person and virtual) during the course of the contract. 


Roles and responsibilities:

•    Provide logistics support in trade missions, visit programmes, and webinars related to the Financial & Professional Services sector.
•    Market research and report generation.
•    Support with administrative tasks
•    Engage with Embassy and external teams as needed.
•    Support stakeholder and account management of UK Financial and Professional Services companies.

  • Market Research Skills
  • Commercial Topics
  • International Trade Skills
  • Relations Skills 
  • Business Analytics
  • Stakeholder Management
Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace, Managing a Quality Service, Working Together
31 August 2025
Internship
Temporary
25
Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean
Mexico
Mexico City
British Embassy
1
MXN
$8,882.00 MXN
monthly
20 October 2025

Candidates must be able to live and work in Mexico in their own right at time of application.

The successful candidate will be subject to a security clearance and professional reference checks.

Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary, eg some non-local national staff and some spouses or partners of UK diplomatic staff, will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.  

Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list’.  If during the reserve period of 6 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate.

Closing date of receiving applications is before 23:55 (Local Time) on 31 August 2025. 

All applicants must fully complete the online application form, including the sections for employment and educational details, experience, and behaviour-based questions. Only those applications that contain all required information will be considered. To ensure the sift process remains anonymous, please do not include any personally identifiable information in your application form.

All staff at the British Embassy and its Consulates in Mexico are expected to work towards the UK mission statement of Building a UK/Mexico partnership, which makes the world and us more prosperous and secure, and to embody the Embassy’s agreed values of Honesty, Respect, Inclusion and Professionalism. 

Guaranteed Monetary Benefits

  • 15 days Christmas Bonus for each full year worked.
  • 25% Holiday Bonus.

Other non-Monetary Benefits

  • Social Security coverage under Mexican Law.
  • Entitlement of 12 days annual leave for each full year worked.
  • 14 Public Holidays including a combination of Mexican and British festivities.

Working Patterns

25 hour working week from Monday to Friday.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.

This opportunity is closed to applications.