Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) Graduate 2025
We’re an international bank serving individuals and businesses in the world’s most dynamic markets. We’re a team of ambitious, highly experienced, dedicated professionals, with a client-first mindset, who serve, manage and grow our client's wealth. We do this through our inter-connected global network, culture of collaboration, and shared purpose to make a meaningful difference in the world.
Our clients include individuals and small businesses, and we support them with a range of traditional banking services, including investment, credit and wealth planning solutions. Our digital services are designed to provide our clients with unique and superior experiences. We offer career opportunities for relationship managers, customer service specialists, product and segment management, sales and wealth planning.
About The Programme
You’ll explore and learn about our various teams, and what drives our Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) business. You’ll learn about our product offerings, how we position them in the market, and the processes and strategies behind them. Your learning will cover different segments, products and channels and how we manage customer experience. You’ll also experience the importance of cross-bank collaboration, to deliver projects and programmes.
What You’ll Do Over 18 Months
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.
You’ll spend the first 12 months rotation in distribution/front-line followed by three rotations across a combination of Digital, Product and/or Segment based business areas on your preference/business demand. The final rotation will last six months and will help you understand our products in detail. It’s your opportunity to find the team you fit into best and begin your Standard Chartered career.
Your career progression
Responsibilities
In addition to continuous learning opportunities, you’ll be given early responsibilities and be able to make extensive connections across different teams, including:
- Affluent
- Wealth Management
- Personal Banking
- Data & Analytics
- Digital Banking
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 those who are adept at building relationships and striving towards goals.
- Final year students, able to start July 2025
- 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.
About Standard CharteredWe'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 OfferIn 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 AssessmentsSome 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.
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