Chartered Accountant Internship

Start your Chartered Accountant career with hands-on experience in financial reporting, analytics and automation, working on real business challenges within a global bank.

You’ll join the Standard Chartered Modelling and Analytics Centre (SCMAC), a wholly owned Standard Chartered entity, delivering advanced analytics and data-driven insights to businesses across the globe.

We combine deep financial expertise with cutting-edge analytics to support decision-making, drive performance, and build sustainable growth across the Bank. 

About the programme

Our 12-month Chartered Accountant Industrial Training Programme gives you hands-on experience in a global banking environment, working on real business challenges from day one.

You’ll build core technical skills across financial reporting, analytics, and automation, while gaining exposure to how a leading international bank operates. 

Throughout the programme, you’ll:

• Work on live projects with real business impact
• Develop in-demand skill across finance, data and automation
• Receive structured mentorship and on-the-job learning
• Build strong networks across teams and functions
  
  

Strong performance may lead to a full-time opportunity as a Business Analyst on completion of the programme.
 

What you will be doing

You’ll contribute to core finance and reporting processes while helping drive efficiency through automation and data-led insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver monthly reporting and management insights, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and clear commentary for stakeholders
• Build and enhance dashboards (Power BI) to track financial performance and KPIs
• Develop automation solutions (Excel VBA) to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort
• Support direct tax activities, including computations, reconciliations, and coordination with advisors
• Assist with indirect tax (GST) compliance, filings, and audit support
• Contribute to statutory audit processes, including reconciliations and documentation
• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities (journals, accruals, reviews)
• Document processes and support continuous improvement of finance workflows.

What we’re looking for

• Strong academic track record with a focus on analytical and quantitative work
• Prior articleship experience in audit, accounting, or financial reporting preferred
• Experience with Power BI (dashboarding, basic DAX, data modelling)
• Advanced Excel skills (VBA, pivot tables, power query)
• Exposure to SAT S/4HANA or similar systems is an advantage
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving mindset

Eligibility 

• CA Intermediate (both groups cleared) — registered with ICAI and eligible for Industrial Training
• Currently pursuing CA Final
• Available for a full-time 12-month industrial training engagement.

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