Client Coverage Apprenticeship 2026 

Location: London    

Salary: £30,000 and £2,000 Relocation Allowance 

Start Date: September 2026 

Qualification: Level 4 Investment Operations Specialist Apprenticeship (CISI)  

Investing in your future   

Our Client Coverage Apprenticeship is a two-year, paid programme for students who want to start a career in banking without going to university. 

From day one, you’ll be part of a front-office Client Coverage team, learning how we support our clients, building long-term relationships and delivering solutions across markets, financing and investment products. 

You’ll earn while you learn, gain real responsibility early on, and complete a fully funded, industry-recognised qualification alongside hands-on experience. 

What is Client Coverage? 

Client Coverage teams are responsible for managing and developing relationships with our corporate and institutional clients around the world. 

They work closely with specialist product teams to deliver solutions across areas such as: 

• Trade and cash management
• Financing and credit
• Capital markets and investment products 
  
  

Client Coverage sits within Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) and plays a key role in helping clients grow, manage risk and invest sustainably.

What you’ll be doing 

During the programme, you’ll gain exposure to different areas of Client Coverage and supporting teams. You’ll: 

• Work alongside experienced bankers to support client relationships
• Learn how a global bank operates across markets and regions
• Help prepare client materials, research industry trends and analyse data
• Attend insight sessions, briefings and learning events across the bank
• Build strong communication and presentation skills through regular stakeholder interaction 
  
  

You’ll rotate across teams to help you understand the role fully and decide where your strengths and interests lie. 

How the programme works 

• Two-year rotational programme within Client Coverage
• Four six-month rotations across different teams
• On-the-job learning alongside structured training
• Completion of the CISI Investment Operations Certificate as part of a Level 4 apprenticeship
• Support from managers, mentors and peers throughout 
  
  

High performing apprentices may be considered for a permanent role at the end of the programme.

What you’ll gain 

• Real front-office experience in Corporate and Investment Banking
• A strong understanding of how we support our global clients
• A recognised professional qualification, fully funded
• Confidence, commercial awareness and transferable skills 
  
  

Who we’re looking for 

You don’t need previous finance experience. We’re looking for people who are: 

• Curious and motivated, with a desire to learn
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high expectation environment
• Strong communicators who enjoy working with people
• Logical thinkers, interested in understanding data and problem-solving
• Reliable, resilient and proactive.

Eligibility 

To apply, you must: 

• Be studying towards or have completed A Levels, BTEC or equivalent (Level 3)
• Have a minimum of 5 GCSEs, including Maths and English
• Have the permanent right to work in the UK
• Not be currently enrolled in or have completed a university degree. 
  
  

If you are currently studying at university or already hold a degree, please explore our graduate opportunities instead. 

Applications 

Applications to this programme close on 6th March 2026. We recommend applying early.

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