Financial Markets Graduate Programme 2027
Our Markets team helps clients navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and manage risk across asset classes. From foreign exchange and interest rates to debt securities and commodities, we deliver bespoke solutions that power global trade and investment. Financial Markets sits at the heart of our Corporate and Investment Banking business, connecting clients to the capital they need and the opportunities that drive growth.
About the Graduate Programme – how you’ll learn and grow
Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. Over our two-year graduate programme, you’ll gain hands-on experience, build lasting relationships and grow your understanding of clients, markets and the wider business. From day one, you’ll contribute to meaningful work and be supported to build a successful long-term career.
You’ll benefit from:
- Real impact: Take ownership of meaningful work that contributes to business outcomes.
- Future-ready capabilities: Build the technical, commercial and professional skills needed to succeed.
- Global collaboration: Work with colleagues and clients across markets, products and functions.
- Continuous growth: Learn from structured development, mentoring and practical experience.
Where you could work
During the assessment process, we’ll help you explore which of the following areas best match your strengths and interests:
- Sales: Build trusted relationships with institutional clients and deliver investment strategies tailored to their goals. Collaborate across teams to execute trades and manage risk.
- Trading: Make markets and manage positions across asset classes. Use data, analytics, and instinct to navigate volatility and drive performance.
- Structuring: Design and price complex financial products. Combine quantitative modelling with commercial insight to deliver innovative client solutions.
- Financing Risk: Structure and distribute financing deals that support sustainable growth. Manage risk exposure and ensure regulatory alignment.
- Research: Deliver differentiated insights across macroeconomics, FX, credit, ESG, commodities, and geopolitics. Help clients and internal stakeholders make smarter decisions.
- Macro Portfolio Risk Management, Modelling and Analytics, Product Team & XVA: Join teams that work on risk analytics, quantitative modelling, product assessments and valuation adjustments. Work involves data analysis, scenario work, product review and supporting pricing or risk methodologies.
Bring the skills - we’ll help you build your career
We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, recognising that diverse perspectives drive innovation.
We’re looking for people who can:
- Take ownership and show initiative, thriving in fast-paced environments
- Think critically and solve problems using logic, analysis and sound judgement
- Learn quickly and stay curious, seeking opportunities to grow and develop
- Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others
- Demonstrate resilience and adaptability when navigating challenge and change
- Show curiosity about financial markets, global trends and how they shape businesses and economies.
For technical roles, we particularly value backgrounds in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this graduate programme, you need to be in your final year of study and graduating by July 2027. You must also have the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.
You can only submit one application within a six-month period, so take time to review our opportunities and apply for the role that best fits your interests, skills and career goals.
Key Dates
- Assessment Centres: October 2026 onwards
- Start Date: July 2027
About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)
We are a super-connector for many of the world’s largest companies across more than 50 markets, playing a central role in global trade, capital flows and economic growth. We work with governments, financial institutions, and some of the world’s most ambitious corporates to help them expand, invest, and navigate uncertainty across increasingly complex and fast-changing markets.
What makes us distinctive is our combination of deep local expertise with an extensive and unique global network. We support clients across risk management, financing, transaction services, advisory, and sustainable finance, helping move capital to where it’s needed most and supporting the real economy across our footprint.
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.
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