Operations Apprentice - India

Our 12 Months Apprenticeship Programme is designed to give you real responsibility from day one.

You won’t just observe how a global bank operates – you'll help power it. In Technology and Operations, you sit at the heart of how we deliver for our clients each day. You’ll work on live processes, support real transactions and help ensure our clients’ needs are met accurately, effectively, and safely.

Throughout the programme, you’ll:

• Take ownership of meaningful assignments that impact real clients
• Build technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Develop confidence working with data, systems and processes
• Learn how risk, controls and governance protect a global bank
• Strengthen your communication and stakeholder management skills
• Gain exposure to senior leaders and thought-leadership sessions

By the end of the year, you’ll understand how a global bank runs behind the scenes – and the role you can play in shaping its future.

What you’ll be doing

As an Operations Apprentice, you’ll support the teams that keep our banking engine running smoothly. You’ll:

• Support day-to-day processing activities to ensure transactions are completed accurately and on time
• Help monitor operational performance and customer service standards
• Assist in resolving client queries and improving service outcomes
• Track key metrics and maintain data to support reporting and decision-making
• Support managers in overseeing transactions and meeting payment obligations
• Learn how operational risk and controls work – and help ensure we meet regulatory and policy requirements
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within your team.

You’ll gain first-hand experience of how strong operations enable global deals, protect clients, and maintain trust.

What we’re looking for

We're looking for curious, driven individuals who want to learn how global banking works in practice.

You should:

• Be a final-year student or 2025 graduate (BTech, BCom, Economics, Computer Science or related disciplines)
• Be eligible to start in March 2026 with the legal right to work in India
• Have strong academic performance and be actively involved beyond the classroom
• Be confident working with data and Microsoft Office (especially Excel)
• Be detail-oriented, organised and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrate integrity and a strong sense of responsibility

No prior banking experience is required – just the motivation to learn and contribute.

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.   
 
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today. ​   

Our Operations team is responsible for ensuring that the Bank operates with seamless execution, settles a variety of complex financial transactions through data driven decisions, process simplification and automation and by ensuring our internal and external stakeholders needs are met.  

About Standard Chartered  

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our colleagues, clients and communities.  And we’re on a journey to be the world’s most sustainable and responsible bank.  

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  
• Be 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