Group Investigations Intern 2026
Group Investigations’ (GI) primary role is to investigate matters that are likely to involve possible breaches of law, regulation, bank policy or standards and/or that pose potentially significant financial, legal, regulatory or reputational risk to the Bank. GI currently forms part of a wider team which includes eDiscovery (eDDA) and Operations & Analytics.
Group Investigations is responsible for managing a wide range of investigations, and so the team has a range of professional backgrounds, including lawyers, law enforcement and security, accounting firms and other experience gained within the banking industry. During your programme you’ll work across both the eDDA and Operations and Analytics teams. They are responsible for managing the Speaking Up Channel, for governance relating to GI and the provision of specialist
About the 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.
Through this immersive programme, you'll learn about our Group Investigations (“GI”) team and the processes, people and roles. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of what a career within the GI team could look like.
Your programme will include:
• A one-day orientation introduces you to the Bank and your fellow interns
• Four days of classroom instruction on 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 GI business function and across other divisions
• Engaging in community service
Eligibility
We encourage students from diverse backgrounds to apply.
For this role, we particularly value backgrounds in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Legal.
You need to be a penultimate year student, able to intern for 10 weeks from June 2025 and start full-time employment in July 2026.You’ll have the legal right to work in the UK (on a full time basis) for the duration of the internship 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.
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