Risk Graduate Programme - 2026

When you join our Risk team, you’ll collaborate across teams to solve problems, spot opportunities, and deliver sustainable outcomes - for clients and for the Bank. With our unique global footprint, your work will have reach and relevance
We work with teams across the Bank to take a constructive approach to providing oversight, challenge, and make clear decisions in a timely manner. We’re nurturing a diverse and inclusive working environment where colleagues are accountable, open to challenge and feel safe using their judgment to make considered decisions. You can be part of our map to future success, breaking down silos and building out our diversity to drive better insights and decision making.

About the Programme

You will be supported and launched into a banking career on a global scale through our graduate programme. During our induction, you’ll meet peers and senior executives from across the Bank, creating networks that will support your career growth. 
Our training programme will enable you to develop your technical, business, and interpersonal skills. You’ll get real-world simulations and case studies that will make our training come alive. Future skill development is a key priority across the programme and your career development, as we're committed to changing the way banking works for the better.

Your career progression
At the end of the graduate programme, you’ll deploy into a full-time contributor role within the Risk Function. This could be in the following areas: 
•    Credit Risk 
•    Treasury Risk 
•    Traded Risk
•    Model Risk 
•    Environmental, Social and Governance and Reputational Risk

Bring the skills and we’ll help you build your career

We believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll be: 
•    A final-year student, graduating by July 2026
•    Legally eligible to work full-time in the country you’re applying to
•    A team player with strong academic performance and extracurricular achievements
•    Analytical, numerate, and detail-oriented
•    Adaptable and resilient in fast-paced environments
Curious about global markets and driven to make an impact.

Key date

Start date:  July 2026.

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.