Corporate and Financial Institutions Coverage Intern

Globally, Corporate and Financial Institutions Coverage is part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function, and is responsible for managing and developing our client relationships. We work across the global network together with our product partners to deliver working capital, financing, trade, cash and financial markets solutions for our clients. The solutions cover a wide range of products and services from sustainable trade finance, to credit derivatives and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory. Join us if you want to work with some of the most influential local and global corporates in your geographies. You’ll get the opportunity to work with lots of different teams within the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business function and more broadly across the Bank. Our Corporate and Financial Institutions Coverage team are an essential component of our customer experience, guiding clients through our products and solutions and they work closely with our product partners, internal specialist teams and stakeholders throughout.  
 
Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered Bank gives you the opportunity to be more. You can be more innovative, empowered, and impactful and take your career as far as you want it to go. We’re a place where ambition meets impact, which means you’ll be able to work on challenging projects, learn new skills and make a meaningful difference to the world.  
 
We support local and large corporations, governments, banks and investors with their transaction banking, financial markets and borrowing needs.   
  
We provide solutions to more than 20,000 clients in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors. Our clients operate or invest across 50 markets across the globe.   
  
Our strong and deep local presence enables us to help co-create bespoke financing solutions and connect our clients multilaterally to investors, suppliers, buyers and sellers.   
  
Our products and services enable our clients to move capital, manage risk and invest to create wealth. Our clients represent a large and important part of the economies we serve. CIB is at the heart of the Group’s purpose to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity. 
 
Our interns will work either with our Credit Analysts or with our team of Relationship Managers.  
 
Assistant Relationship Managers support Senior Relationship Managers in the execution of deals, coordination between clients and product partners, and account planning and business approvals. Sales responsibilities will be assigned to you, and you'll work with multiple stakeholders to identify opportunities.  
 
Credit Analysts assist Relationship Managers in managing risk, structuring deals, and monitoring existing clients. You’ll gain a deep understanding of our CIB products and how they are structured. You'll also conduct credit, financial, and industry risk analysis, as well as learn about environmental, sustainability, and reputational risk types and how we manage them.  

About the Internship Programme

Our 10-week Internship Programme gives you the opportunity to gain first-hand experience working on real-world problems, hone your skills, create lasting relationships, gain insights, and discover your strengths. Throughout the programme, you'll acquire the skills for immediate success, as well as understand what's required for the future as our industry and your career evolve. A strong performance on the programme could lead to a graduate job offer.  
 
Your programme will also include:  
  
•    A one-day orientation introduces you to the Bank and your fellow interns  
•    Four days of classroom instruction to learn more about our products, our business, and our bankers  
•    On-the-job training and technical seminars to support your learning  
•    Performance reviews and support of managers, mentors, and buddies   
•    Presentations by senior management (speaker series) and engagement with executive management  
•    Networking within the CIB business function and across divisions  
•    Engaging in community service  

Eligibility

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We are looking for team players with strong academic and extracurricular achievements, agile multi-taskers able to handle pressure, and analytical minds with strong numeracy and attention to detail. You need to be a penultimate year student, able to intern in June 2025* and start full-time employment in July 2026. You’ll have the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.

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