2025 Intern Financial Markets South Africa
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Markets Intern 2025 Our Markets business is part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function. We provide clients with risk management, financing and investment expertise, through bespoke solutions across asset classes and building trusted relationships in various industries and sectors. We provide clients with an in-depth knowledge of local markets as well as our global product expertise to offer the best financial solutions. We also offer access to a wide range of currency markets, local market information, efficient risk management strategies, and capital raising as well as liquidity management solutions for our clients. Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered Bank gives you the opportunity to be more. You can be more innovative, empowered, and impactful and take your career as far as you want it to go. We’re a place where ambition meets impact, which means you’ll be able to work on challenging projects, learn new skills and make a meaningful difference to the world. We support local and large corporations, governments, banks and investors with their transaction banking, financial markets and borrowing needs. We provide solutions to more than 20,000 clients in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors. Our clients operate or invest across 50 markets across the globe. Our strong and deep local presence enables us to help co-create bespoke financing solutions and connect our clients multilaterally to investors, suppliers, buyers and sellers. Our products and services enable our clients to move capital, manage risk and invest to create wealth. Our clients represent a large and important part of the economies we serve. CIB is at the heart of the Group’s purpose to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity. About The Programme Our 10-week Internship Programme gives you the opportunity to gain first-hand experience working on real-world problems, hone your skills, create lasting relationships, gain insights, and discover your strengths. Throughout the programme, you'll acquire the skills for immediate success, as well as understand what's required for the future as our industry and your career evolve. A strong performance on the programme could lead to a graduate job offer. What You’ll Experience Through this immersive programme, you'll learn about our CIB products, how they’re structured, how we manage varying risk types, and the processes and people needed to support our clients. You’ll also experience:
- A one-day orientation introducing you to the bank and your fellow interns
- Four days of classroom instruction to learn about our products, our business, and our bankers
- On-the-job training and technical seminars to support your learning
- Performance reviews and support of managers, mentors, and buddies
- Presentations by senior management (speaker series) and engagement with executive management
- Networking within the CIB business function and across divisions
- Engaging in community service
- In UK and UAE, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship. In UAE, priority is given to UAE nationals.
- For US Graduate roles, we will not consider applicants seeking Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT) employment.
- Internships in India start in April.
- 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
- 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.
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