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A place where you can grow

Since opening our first branch in Singapore in 1859, Standard Chartered Singapore has become the centre for the majority of our global business leadership and technology operations, as well as home to our innovation hub, SC Ventures.

Over 160 years on, we continue to support both individual and corporate needs to build commerce, and secure better futures at every step of our customers’ journeys. We do this by offering an entire range of financial services across personal, priority and private banking, alongside our business, commercial and corporate banking capabilities.

Our passion to become pioneers by solving challenges for businesses and individuals every day inspires us to collaborate as one team, empowers us to bring our whole selves to work and allows us to share all our triumphs with our loved ones. This is what powers our learning and growth.
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Our programmes

Internship programme

Are you ready to experience the world of banking? Are you looking for an immersive internship experience, that will give you first-hand experience of what it’s like to work in a global organisation?

Our Summer Internship programme allows you to work directly on real-world problems, build your business skills, support and drive innovation, and create lasting relationships . Our programme is designed as a pipeline into our graduate programme; if you do well, you could get a job offer at the end of the programme.

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Graduate programme

Are you looking for accelerated growth that will fully empower you to shape your potential? Our graduate programme could be just what you’re looking for. With roles in a variety of functions, you can find your fit with us.   

Over a year you’ll experience an immersive and collaborative learning experience. One that will equip you with a deep understanding of our organisation, business strategy and our future.

Local market programmes

Designed to provide students with deep, work-relevant skills and help students enter the workplace after their studies.  The programme includes classroom learning with structured on-the-job training including:  

  • experience of a real work environment and work culture to support job readiness upon graduation 
  • These programmes involve companies and universities co-designing and co-delivering curricula that closely interconnect theory and practice, as well as co-assessing students’ performance at the workplace.
Eligibility
  • Legal right to work on a permanent basis in Singapore for the full duration of the internship (we’re unable to sponsor work permits for this opportunity). 
  • Studying at a participating university and relevant degrees. 
Evaluation* 
  • Students will be evaluated during their employment and used to support contract extension, or permanent job offer before the completion of the work study programme. 

*Additional eligibility requirements will be included in the job advert. 

The Apprenticeship Track under the Polytechnic Talent for Finance Scheme aims to provide polytechnic graduates an alternative pathway to take on university graduate-equivalent roles through rotations, training and mentorship.

Eligibility
  • Legal right to work on a permanent basis in Singapore for the full duration of the apprenticeship (we’re unable to sponsor work permits for this opportunity). 
  • Recent graduates of a polytechnic.
Evaluation

Apprentices  will be evaluated during their employment and be offered a conversion based on their performance.

Get to know our business

We have lots of opportunities across our business and network, take a look at each one and see what best fits your career aspirations. 

Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB)

For more than 160 years, we’ve been providing world-class financing, investment, treasury and strategic advisory services to our clients. 

When you’re part of the Corporate and Investment Banking team at Standard Chartered Bank, you can be more innovative and influential.  You can take your career as far as you want it to go. This is a place where ambition meets impact.  You’ll have opportunities to work on exciting projects, learn new skills and make a meaningful difference to the world. 

Our clients include large corporations, governments, banks and investors headquartered, operating or investing in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.  While our corporate banking clients consist of large multinational and local corporates, our commercial banking clients represent a large and important portion of the economies we serve and are potential future multinational corporates. Our strong and deep local presence across these markets enables us to facilitate trade, capital and investment flows, in and for our footprint. 

Roles are in:  

  • Financial Markets 
  • Client Coverage 
  • Digital Channels & Data Analytics 
Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB)

Our team consists of 25,000 colleagues, spread across 35 countries.  And we’re transforming – embracing agile and new ways of working together, which helps us to truly ‘think client’ and serve millions of our affluent and emerging affluent clients, across 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.

Transformation, Technology and Operations (TTO)

The digital revolution has transformed banking and financial services. At the centre of our evolution is our  Transformation, Technology and Operations team.  They partner with our business, functions, regional and market teams, across our global footprint, to reshape our future. They’re a diverse, collaborative team, leading cutting-edge and complex transformation projects and providing and maintaining banking operational excellence.  All teams bring passion, innovation, diversity of thought and culture, and an ambition to realise our transformation journey.

We’re responsible for the banks systems and technology infrastructure and we’re digitising our banking services, making it easier than ever for our customers to bank.

Ventures

SC Ventures is a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts and business builders that are leading the future of banking. The diversity of our team fuels a unique approach to innovation and venture building. We bring expertise and perspectives from the world’s most dynamic markets, to take concepts to new business models at scale.

We provide the platform and catalyst to promote innovation, invest in disruptive financial technology and explore alternative business models.

Business Functions

Business Support Functions are the teams who support the Bank.  

Roles are in:  

  • Group Internal Audit (GIA) 
  • Risk 
  • From lockdown to levelling up your SME business

    Business areas

    We’re a talented and committed workforce, representing 131 nationalities across more than 52 markets in our footprint regions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and beyond. Our business is structured into client and customer segments and business support functions.

  • Next steps

    • our Culture and Values

      Our culture and values

      Find out more about the purpose that underpins everything we do at Standard Chartered, and the behaviours and culture that drive this purpose forward. 

    • our Business areas

      FAQs

      Find answers to frequently asked questions about our programmes, entry requirement, application process, eligibility and general queries. 

    • Application zone

      Application zone

      Ready to apply? Find out what happens next in our application zone, including hints and tips to make sure you’re fully prepared for interviews and assessment centres.