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Financial Markets Operations

We are a global operations team supporting the financial markets business by providing
operations solutions in foreign exchange, rates, commodities, credit markets, and financing and
securities services. We operate in 40 countries and employ some 3000 colleagues globally. Our
mission is to support financial markets to increase return on tangible equity for our shareholders
safely, sustainably, and securely.

About the Graduate Programme

Graduates who join our program will go through a learning and development journey before
being placed into our operations roles.

During this learning journey, we’ll

 Invest in helping you build the skills and capabilities needed to succeed in a career in
operations. In this excellent learning environment, we’ll
 Provide you with domain knowledge of our products and other technical and meta-skills
relevant to being a successful operation professional of the future.
 Provide opportunities for you to engage with our senior leaders globally, pitch your
ideas, and demonstrate your problem-solving skills.
 Assign a mentor to advise you and be a sounding board to support you throughout your
journey.
 Help you build relationships as we recognize that your network of contacts is an
invaluable asset throughout your career.

Over a period of 18 months, you’ll experience an incredible and varied global learning
experience, which will include:
 Talent assignments
 Technical and professional skills training
 Future skills development workshops
 Targeted online learning.
 Inspiring thought leadership speaker events,
 Real-life business problem solving and more.

We’ll provide you with the tools, training, network, and support to help you become a change
agent, and drive innovation and creativity across the bank.

Program preview

New joiner onboarding – to help orientate you into the bank, your new team and your role. We
want to make sure you feel supported in your first few weeks with us.
Learn and grow – with access to tools and learning experiences to help you realise your full
potential. While the experience will vary depending on the team or role you join, you’ll be
exposed to all sorts of ways to start your career.
Be part of the family – not only will you meet other students on our programmes, but you’ll also
get to meet people from across the bank, build your professional network and understand the
Standard Chartered difference.
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Preferred skills and experience

 Strong data literacy, analytical and judgement skills

 Strong problem-solving skills
 Ability to work in a team environment.
 Ability to work under pressure.
 Ability to collaborate, be curious and have fun.
 Strong multitasking and time management skills
 Proactive and enthusiastic self-starter
 Agile and well-rounded individuals
 Positive attitude, willingness to learn and possess a growth mindset.
 Passion, tenacity and resilience in an ever-changing environment
 Results oriented, attention to detail, and good research abilities.
 Effective communication skills in English (both written & verbal)
 Banking: knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions
 Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets etc)
 Proficient use of MS Office including MS Excel, Powerpoint & Word.
 Coding and programming skills will be an added advantage.
 Contributions to your community (e.g. volunteering) will be an added advantage

Eligibility

We are looking for motivated and outstanding candidates to join Financial Markets Operations
(FMO) team. Bring your hard-working attitude, and we will invest in your learning and
capabilities to be future leaders in our organization.

 We welcome students from all degree disciplines with excellent academic records and
encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
 Final year students, able to start July 2024
 Bachelor’s Degree holder (less than 2 years completion and/ 2 years of working experience)
 Professional Qualification (ACCA/ CIMA) - Completed/ Pursuing Level 3 or Masters (less
than 2 years completion and/ 2 years of working experience)
 Permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to

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
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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 better in others, and work
collectively to build for the long term.

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 includes volunteering leave, maternity and parental leave for spouse/partner,
compassionate leave, sabbatical leave, along with market competitive annual leave.
 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