Syndicate and Portfolio Management Graduate Programme 2027
On our Syndicate & Portfolio Management Graduate Programme, you'll gain exposure to how large-scale financing is structured, distributed and managed across global markets. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll develop an understanding of credit, risk and portfolio management while helping to support clients and drive business growth across some of the world's most dynamic markets.
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
You’ll be placed into one of the following teams:
- Credit Portfolio Analytics - Manages how the Bank uses its financial resources and credit portfolio, balancing risk and returns to support sustainable growth and make effective use of capital and funding.
- Credit Portfolio Management - Provides data-driven analysis and insights to support informed decision-making, helping the Bank understand its clients, credit portfolio, and identify opportunities to improve performance and returns.
- Syndicate and Financing Risk - Supports the structuring, pricing, risk management and distribution of loans and bonds, helping the Bank provide financing to clients while effectively managing risk and returns.
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 when tackling challenges
- Think critically, solve problems and apply sound judgement.
- Learn quickly, Stay curious and look for opportunities to grow and develop
- Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others
- Adapt and perform in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrate commercial curiosity, with an interest in clients, markets and global trends.
For technical roles, we particularly value backgrounds in Finance & Banking, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics 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: November 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 a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.
Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.
What We Offer
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
- 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 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.
Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.
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.
