Your launchpad into Corporate & Investment Banking

Curious about a career in banking? Our Insight Programme is your opportunity to experience the fast-paced world of Corporate & Investment Banking first-hand. This three-day, in-person experience is designed for first-year university students (or second year of a four-year degree) who want to explore a future career in Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).  

Over three immersive days you’ll: 

•    Discover how our CIB business powers global markets 
•    Develop the skills that drive success in banking 
•    Explore diverse career paths within the Bank 
•    Get a fast-track opportunity for our 2027 Summer Internship Programme in London
 

Programme Dates

31 March – 2 April in person at our London headquarters.

What to expect

Your launchpad into banking: 

•    Deep dives into CIB - Learn how we operate as a global bank and support clients across markets.
•    Exposure to our CIB teams - Markets, Global Banking, Client Coverage and Transaction Banking.
•    Direct Access to Leaders - Hear career stories from senior leaders and ask them your questions. 
•    Interactive Workshops – Build commercial awareness, problem-solving and teamwork skills.
•    Job Shadowing – See what day-to-day roles look like in practice. 
•    Career Coaching - CV reviews and interview preparation with our Early Careers team. 

Skills you’ll build

This programme is designed to help you develop the skills that matter for a career in banking: 

•    Commercial awareness and curiosity
•    Analytical and problem-solving skills
•    Communication and presentation skills
•    Teamwork and collaboration
•    Professional resilience

Who can apply?   

We’re committed to building an inclusive future for banking. We actively encourage applications from students of all backgrounds and identities, including women and Black Heritage students.

Eligibility 

·    Any degree discipline 
·    First year university students (or second year if on a four-year course)
·    No prior banking or financial services experience required.  

Who we’re looking for

Potential matters more than experience.  We value:  

•    Curiosity and a willingness to learn
•    Clear, thoughtful communication
•    Motivation and resilience, particularly when faced with new challenges
•    Interest in how businesses, markets and economies work
•    A desire to make a positive impact and do the right thing.

Next steps 

Perform well during the Insight Programme and you’ll be first in line for our 2027 Summer Internship Programme – your gateway to a graduate role with us.  

Recruitment Assessments   

If selected, you’ll receive an invitation to complete an online assessment.  Your responses will help us determine your place on the programme.  
 
Additional Details 

The Insight Programme is an unpaid educational workshop; however, travel and accommodation will be reimbursed for students outside of the immediate London area.

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