SC Talent Enrichment Programme (FMO STEP) - Malaysia

As a Financial Market Operations Graduate, you’ll be joining our Operations team, responsible for ensuring that the Bank operates with seamless execution. They settle a variety of complex financial transactions through data driven decisions, process simplification and automation and by ensuring our internal and external stakeholders needs are met. 

Our Financial Market Operations team partners with our sales and product colleagues to play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless execution and settlement of complex financial transactions. By removing inefficiencies and complexity, we’re responsible for delivering a positive client experience and leading transformational change. It’s challenging, strategically important work, and you’ll continuously innovate to ensure we stay at the forefront of technological industry trends. Join our team to build your career at the very heart of the financial industry.  

You’ll be part of our Transformation, Technology & Operations (T&O) team, the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today. 

About the programme

You will be supported and launched into your career through our hands-on graduate programme. During this time, you’ll meet peers and senior executives from across the Group, creating networks that will accelerate your career growth. Our training programme will enable you to develop your technical, business, and interpersonal skills through real-world experience and in-depth training. Future skill development is a key priority for the Bank, and by investing in our Early Careers programmes, we're committed to changing the way banking works for the better. 

Graduates who join our programme will go through a learning and development journey before being placed into our operational roles. During this learning journey, we’ll invest in helping you build the skills and capabilities needed to succeed in a career in operations. In this excellent learning environment, we will:
 

• Provide you with domain knowledge of our products and other technical and meta-skills relevant to being a successful Operations professional of the future. 
• Provide opportunities for you to engage with our senior leaders globally, pitch your ideas, and demonstrate your problem-solving skills.
• Assign a mentor to advise you and be a sounding board to support you throughout your journey.
• Help you build relationships as we recognise that your network of contacts is an invaluable asset throughout your career

Preferred skills and experience

• Strong data literacy, analytical and judgement skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to collaborate, be curious and have fun.
• Positive attitude, willingness to learn and possess a growth mindset.
• Passion, tenacity and resilience in an ever-changing environment
• Results oriented, attention to detail, and good research abilities. 
• Effective communication skills in English (both written & verbal)
• Banking knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions 
• Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets, etc)   
• Proficient use of MS Office including MS Excel, PowerPoint & Word. 
• Coding and programming skills will be an added advantage. 
• Contributions to your community (e.g. volunteering) will be an added advantage.

Eligibility

We welcome students from all degrees with excellent academic records and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Students with finance background and/or equipped with solid technical skills will have an added advantage.

You’ll need to be a final year student or a fresh graduate within one year of graduation (graduated in 2024), able to start July 2025, with a permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.
 

• Bachelor’s Degree holder (less than 1 year’s completion) 
• Professional Qualification (ACCA/ CIMA) - Completed/ Pursuing Level 3 or Masters (less than 2 years completion and
• Less than 2 years of working experience.
   

We’re looking for team players who are agile, flexible, able to multi-task and are passionate about the world of finance. 

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