Job Summary

Job

Graduate Associate – Bangladesh
 

Primary Location

Dhaka, Bangladesh
 

Schedule

Full-time
 

Employee Status

Permanent

Application Deadline

10 November 2025

 
Graduate Associate Program is the flagship graduate program in Bangladesh for fresh talents who want to be part of country’s top International Bank committed to their values and purpose.

This program will enable you to get hands on experience on projects focusing on accelerated growth. Gain a chance to broaden your network, gain insights into the business and ultimately, embark upon a successful career within Standard Chartered Bank as a future leader. Be a part of our diverse and inclusive working environment where colleagues are accountable, open to challenge and feel safe using their judgment to make considered decisions. While you bring your unique skills and a desire to grow and learn, we’ll provide you with the tools, training, network, and support to help you become a change agent, drive innovation and creativity across the bank.

Your Journey:

• New joiner onboarding – to help orientate you into the bank, your new team, and your role.
   
• Learn and grow – with access to tools and learning experiences to help you realise your full potential. While the experience will vary depending on the team or role you join, you’ll be exposed to all sorts of ways to start your career.
   
• Be part of the family – not only will you meet other graduates on our programmes, but you’ll also get to meet people from across the bank within and cross borders, build your professional network and understand the Standard Chartered difference.

Programme Overview:
 

Over 9 months, you’ll experience an engaging and varied learning experience, which will include:
 

• Rotation: Functional and Cross Functional stints across the bank
• Mandatory Learnings: E – learnings, self-learning curriculums, foundation training at BIBM and Banking Professional Examinations
• Exposure to Country’s Top Management: Inspiring engagements and future skills development workshops with CMT and Senior Executives
• Interpersonal & wellness training: Gain exclusive access to bank’s wellbeing resources
• Robust Foundation: Real life business problem solving and opportunity to impact our business
• Exposure: Networking opportunities across matrixed business at all levels
• Get back to the Society: Opportunity to take part in different Employee Volunteering activities

Skills and Experience

Your career progression

At the end of your programme, you’ll join a role in either Wealth & Retail Banking (WRB) or Operations (T&O) or other functions in the bank based on suitability.
 

Eligibility

We’re interested in people with diverse backgrounds and encourage students with minimum bachelor’s degree from all degree disciplines to apply to our programmes. 
 

For our Graduate Programme, you must 

• Have your final grades published on or before 30 September, 2025
• Fresh graduates are highly encouraged to apply
• Graduates with maximum 1 year of experience can apply
• Have the permanent legal right to work in Bangladesh

Qualifications

Recruitment Steps:

• Values Based Assessment (Online)
• Initial Interview
• Assessment Centre
• Final Interview
• Offer Communication
• Onboarding

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.
• 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.