Our 12 Months Apprenticeship Programme is designed to give you real responsibility from day one, while building the skills and experience to start your career in a global bank.

You won’t just observe how a global bank operates – you'll contribute to the teams that keep it running, evolving and ready for the future. From managing risk and strengthening our operations to supporting our people, technology and business, our Global Support Functions play a critical role in helping the Bank perform at its best.

Throughout the programme, you’ll:

Take ownership of meaningful work and contribute to real business priorities
Build technical, analytical and problem-solving skills through hands-on experience
Learn how data, technology and processes are used to improve the way we work
Develop your communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Learn from experienced colleagues and gain exposure to senior leaders

By the end of the programme, you’ll have a better understanding of how a global bank works, the role your function plays in its success, and where your skills and ambitions could take you next.

What we’re looking for

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

You should:

Have graduated from college in 2026.
Have 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 Global Support Functions team

We enable the Bank to operate effectively, responsibly and at scale across our global markets. Our teams support how decisions are made, how risks are managed, and how the organisation runs day-to-day. We ensure the Bank runs effectively and responsibly by supporting governance, risk management, financial performance and regulatory compliance across our global footprint. We provide the insight and expertise that supports decision making through areas such as finance, risk, legal and corporate functions, helping shape strategy and business outcomes.

We work across every part of the Bank, partnering with businesses, functions and support teams to ensure the organisation operates smoothly and sustainably.

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