Financial Markets Apprentice 2025
Location: London
Salary: £29,904, and £2,000 Onboarding Payment to support with initial expenses such as workwear, relocation and travel costs
Start Date: Monday 8th September 2025
Investing in your future
Our Front Office Financial Markets Apprenticeship is a unique two-year programme with the opportunity to ‘earn while you learn’ and gain an industry recognised qualification through the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) Investment Operations Certificate. If you’re curious, driven, motivated to learn and you want to and accelerate your career in an exciting and fast-paced environment we would love to hear from you.
About Financial Markets
Financial Markets supports clients in managing trading risk, raising capital and diversifying investments. It is a business about relationships and working closely with clients across our global network.
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 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. We support local and large corporations, governments, banks and investors with their transaction banking, financial markets and borrowing needs, providing solutions to more than 20,000 clients in some of the world’s fastest growing economies and most active trade corridors.
About the Apprenticeship Programme
• The Level 4 Investment Operations Specialist Apprenticeship has a focus on investment management, investment consulting, trading, and reporting activities.
• You will complete the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment - Investment Operations Certificate.
• Delivered in partnership with University of Exeter
• High performers may be considered for a full-time role on completion of the programme.
Alongside classroom and on-the-desk learning, including sessions that will develop your communication and presentation skills, your day-to-day responsibilities will mean you will be contributing to the business from the outset. Mentors, peers, and stakeholders will support you as you navigate the organisation with senior stakeholder engagement sessions and events to truly immerse you into our global network.
What you will do
* Have access to all areas of our Financial Markets business and its supporting functions to really learn how a bank operates.
* Have the chance to rotate around different desks for broad business exposure, discovering your strengths to guide your future career.
* Apply your own thinking and share ideas with your team and colleagues.
* Project work, including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives.
What you will gain
• A thorough grounding in Financial Markets, working closely with experienced colleagues and gaining experience of trading and how to successfully manage clients.
• A great start into banking by being immersed in the exciting and fast-paced trading floor environment.
• Fully funded industry recognised Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) qualification.
Eligibility Criteria
We encourage applicants from all A Level (or equivalent) subjects and encourage applicants from diverse background. We ask that you have:
• A minimum of five GCSE’s including GCSE Maths at grade 6 or above and GCSE English at grade 5 or above.
• Be on track or have achieved a minimum of three A Levels or equivalent (BTEC) at grade BBB or above.
• Permanent legal right to work in the UK.
• Resident in the UK since September 2021.
If you are currently enrolled in university or already have completed an equivalent degree, you will not be eligible to apply for this programme, but you can apply to one of our Graduate opportunities.
We are looking for someone who is
• Hard working, resilient, with a drive to learn.
• Able to build strong relationships and with good communication skills.
• Reliable and able to work under pressure.
• Curious to learn and who has a proactive approach.
• A lLogical thinker, interested in understanding and analysing data.
If you are looking for a career with purpose and want to work for a bank making a difference, we would encourage you to apply now. Join us and help shape our future, be on the frontier of banking and open a world of possibilities for yourself.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. 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 thingand 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
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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
* Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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 websitewww.sc.com/careers
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