2025 Client Relationship Apprenticeship

2025 Client Relationship Apprenticeship Programme

Location: London
Salary: £29,904, and £2,000 Onboarding Payment to support with initial expenses such as workwear, relocation and travel costs
Start Date: Monday 8th September 2025

Investing in your future

Our Front Office Client Relationship Apprenticeship is a unique two year programme with the opportunity to ‘earn while you learn’ and gain an industry recognised qualification through the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) Investment Operations Certificate. If you’re curious, driven, motivated to learn and you want to accelerate your career in an exciting and fast-paced environment we would love to hear from you.

About Client Coverage

Our Client Relationship Apprentices sit within our global Client Coverage team, which leads the management and development of our Corporate and Institutional Banking Client Relationships globally. The Client Coverage teams work together with our product partners to deliver solutions for our clients ranging from trade finance and credit derivatives to mergers and acquisitions.

Globally, Client Coverage manages and develops our client relationships. They work across the global network together with our product partners to deliver working capital, financing, trade, cash and financial markets solutions for our clients. Industry sectors include financial institutions, commercial real estate, consumer retail, technology, oil and gas, metals and mining and clean tech.

About the Apprenticeship Programme

• The Level 4 Investment Operations Specialist Apprenticeship has a focus on investment management, investment consulting, trading and reporting activities.
• You will complete the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment - Investment Operations Certificate.
• Have the chance to rotate around different desks for broad business exposure, discovering your strengths to guide your future career.
• High performers may be considered for a full-time role on completion of the programme.

What you’ll gain

• Broad knowledge of Client Coverage including trade facilitation and capital and investment flows in and for our footprint.
• Experience of working with some of the most influential local and global corporates, guiding clients through our products and solutions.
• Fully funded industry recognised Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) qualification.

What you’ll do

• Work with senior bankers on new business origination activities in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Develop an understanding of industry trends and client analysis.
• Attend global briefing meetings with different departments, undertake research assignments and complete project work.

Apprenticeships at Standard Chartered

Alongside classroom and on-the-desk learning, including those that will develop your communication, presentation and analytical skills, your day-to-day responsibilities will mean you’ll be contributing to the business from the outset. Mentors, peers and stakeholders will support you as you navigate the organisation with senior stakeholder engagement sessions and events to truly immerse you into the global Standard Chartered Bank network.

Eligibility Criteria

We encourage applicants from all A Level (or equivalent) subjects and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We ask that you have:

• A minimum of five GCSE’s including GCSE Maths at grade 6 or above and GCSE English at grade 5 or above.
• Be on track or have achieved a minimum of three A Levels or equivalent (BTEC) at grade BBB or above.
• Permanent legal right to work in the UK.
• Resident in the UK since September 2022.

If you are currently enrolled in university or already have completed an equivalent degree, you will not be eligible to apply for this programme, but you can apply to one of our graduate opportunities.

We’re looking for someone who is

• Hard working, resilient, with a drive to learn.
• Able to build strong relationships and with good communication skills.
• Reliable and able to work under pressure.
• Curious to learn and who has a proactive approach.
• A logical thinker, interested in understanding and analysing data.

If you are looking for a career with purpose and want to work for a bank making a difference, we would encourage you to apply now. Join us and help shape our future, be on the frontier of banking and open a world of possibilities for yourself.

Applications will close on Sunday 20th April. We expect a high level of interest so strongly recommend applying early.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term.

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers