Mustaqbali Graduate Program 2023 – برنامج مستقبلي للخريجين ٢٠٢٣

Do you want to change the way people think about Banking, and be at the heart of that change? Do you want to join an organisation committed to their values and purpose? Are you looking for accelerated growth that will fully empower you to shape your potential?

Our UAE graduate programme (Mustaqbali – مستقبلي) could be just what you’re looking for.

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, be involved in 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.

Programme 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 graduates on our programmes, you’ll also get to meet people from across the bank, build your professional network and understand the Standard Chartered difference.

We are hiring across a wide range of business areas, including:

Consumer, Private and Business Banking (CPBB)

Our team consists of 25,000 colleagues, spread across 35 countries. And we’re transforming – embracing agile and new ways of working together, which helps us to truly ‘think client’ and serve millions of our affluent and emerging affluent clients, across the world.

Our clients include individuals and small businesses, and we support them with a range of traditional banking services, including investment, credit and wealth planning solutions.

Our digital services are designed to provide our clients with unique and superior experiences. We offer career opportunities for relationship managers, customer service specialists, product and segment management, sales and wealth planning.

Client Coverage team, Commercial, Corporate and Institutional Banking (CCIB)

We’re responsible for leading the development and management of our CCIB client relationships globally. We serve corporate, public sector, financial institutions, and investor clients by offering bespoke solutions and world-class products and services in collaboration with our product partners spanning transaction banking, financial markets, digital channels and data analytics, as well as operations and technology. With a longstanding history and global footprint covering the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, we are our clients’ trusted banking partner.

Our clients include large corporations, governments, banks and investors headquartered, operating or investing in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. While our commercial banking clients represent a large and important portion of the economies we serve and are potential future multinational corporates. Our strong and deep local presence across these markets enables us to facilitate trade, capital and investment flows in and for our footprint, including across China’s belt and road initiative. Here is where ambition meets impact – come build the future of banking with us.

Transformation, Technology and Operations

We’re responsible for the Groups systems, development, and technology infrastructure. And all client operations, ensuring the needs of our clients are at the centre of our operational framework. As a leading digital banking platform, we provide banking services, power global trade and commerce, and provide financial services to companies across 59 of the fastest growing markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. We’re digitising our banking services by adopting the cloud-first principle for all new software developments and major enhancements, making banking easier for our clients.

Our Technology team is at the centre of our digital future, serving our clients digitally across the world. More than 17,000 technologists work together across our unique geographic footprint. Having diverse, collaborative teams, with varied ideas and cultures enables us to lead this change. As does our strong engineering culture, using agile methodologies, continuous delivery practices and improvement processes, we constantly strive to reduce product time-to-market and streamline our development.

Global Support Functions

Our Global Support Functions cover a wide range of business functions within the business, including:

• Finance
• Risk
• Legal
• Property
• Compliance
• Internal Audit
• HR

More details about each function can be found here

Islamic Banking

Inspired by the Arabic word for ‘truthful’, Saadiq is our global Islamic banking network spanning across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, combining deep Shariah expertise with strong business acumen. We have a strong global network and have developed a wide range of best-practice Islamic financial services across many different countries. Our broad suite of fully Shariah-compliant products are designed to meet all your banking needs, in the market where you live and work.

Eligibility

We’re interested in people with diverse backgrounds and encourage students from all degree disciplines to apply to our programmes.

For our Local Graduate roles, you must:

• Have graduated within the past 2 years with a bachelor’s degree or higher or will graduate before Sept 2023
• Be fluent in English and Arabic
• GPA of 2.8 or equivalent grade

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

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