2024-Graduate-Financial Markets at Standard Chartered Bank

About the programme

You will be supported and launched into a banking career on a global scale through our 18-month graduate programme. During our induction, you’ll meet peers and senior executives from across the Bank, creating networks that will support your career growth.

Our training programme will enable you to develop your technical, business, and interpersonal skills. You’ll get real-world simulations and case studies that will make our training come alive. Future skill development is a key priority across the programme and your career development, as we're committed to changing the way banking works for the better.

Roles

Our industry leading bankers will help you join one of the specialties below. As part of our assessment process, we help you learn more about the opportunities and determine which best suits your skills, attributes, and interests. Through the opportunities below, you’ll gain hands-on experience and become an integral part of the team.

Sales develop and maintain relationships with institutional clients and pitch investment strategies that meet their needs. They work across teams to develop and execute orders, bringing knowledge of asset classes, clients, market trends, and risk management.

Traders make market positions and buy and sell securities on behalf of clients and the Bank. To navigate market dynamics and balance profit and risk considerations, excellent mathematical skills are necessary.

Structuring specialises in modelling and complex asset classes and creating, pricing, and marketing complicated products to clients. From marketing strategies to trade execution, they partner with sales and trading colleagues.

Our research roles provide data-driven investment opportunities, market insights, and risk management advice to the trading floor through in-depth analysis and insight across assets and markets.

Eligibility 

• We welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
• We’re looking for team players with excellent academic achievements and extracurricular activities, agile multi-taskers who can handle pressure, analytical minds with numeracy and attention to detail, and enjoyment of fast paced, dynamic environments
• Our more technical positions will suit individuals with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Statistical proficiency
• Final year students, able to start July 2024
• Permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to 

Exceptions  

• UK and UAE, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship. In the UAE, priority is given to UAE nationals
• US Graduate roles, we will not consider applicants seeking Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT) employment.