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Dubai, UAE

SC Ventures Graduate Programme (UAE Nationals) 2026

Graduate Program
Finance
Finance
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Standard Chartered

Global banking and financial services
75
Palpable Score
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Job Description:

About the Graduate Programme – how you’ll learn and grow

Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. From day one, you’ll build the skills that matter – through real-world projects, mentoring, and tailored learning journeys. Our 12-month graduate programme is designed to accelerate your development and set you up for long-term success. You’ll benefit from

You will be aligned to a workstream within SC Ventures, striving towards achieving our collective desired outcomes and key results. Around you will be a team of experts who will enable the development of your technical, business, and interpersonal skills through real-world experience and hands-on training.


Throughout the programme, you’ll meet peers and senior executives from across our global network, creating partnerships and forming relationships that will accelerate your career. We believe that by fostering a highly collaborative and open culture, the whole can be greater than the sum of our parts.

Opportunities for 2026

As part of the assessment process, we’ll help you explore which of the following workstreams best match your strengths and interests:  

Design and Innovation: Design, deliver, and scale initiatives that enable employees to become Intrapreneurs, support venture-building teams, and strengthen our culture of innovation.

Marketing and Communications: Develop business-centric communications to not only protect the Group’s reputation, brand and services, but also leverage social media and other new age channels to build up our ventures.

Finance: Conduct market research to complement the preparation of financial statements and reports, managing the budget and making projections and forecasts.

You can also indicate areas of interest in advance on your cover letter.

Bring the skills and we’ll help you build your career

We believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll have:  

Key Dates

About the company

Standard Chartered

Company overview
Standard Chartered is a multinational bank focused on connecting clients and capital across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with additional presence in Europe and the Americas. Standard Chartered operates across Corporate and Investment Banking, Wealth and Retail Banking, and a large operations and technology footprint. The company serves individuals, SMEs, and large institutions with products spanning lending, transaction banking, markets, and wealth solutions. Standard Chartered is headquartered in London and is publicly listed.

Locations and presence

Standard Chartered states the company operates across 52 markets, with major hubs including London and large operations and technology centres in places like India. Standard Chartered has maintained a hybrid working approach without a fixed in-office-days rule, while still signalling that in-person time matters for mentorship and junior development.

Palpable Score

75
/ 100
Standard Chartered offers clear early-career entry through global graduate and internship pathways, plus earlier on-ramps like spring insight programmes in some markets. Standard Chartered also gives candidates a more explicit view of the hiring journey than many banks, including assessment centre guidance and timeline expectations. The score is capped by limited public pay transparency for junior roles and incomplete public data on conversion, retention, and promotion rates, alongside recent cost-cutting job moves affecting some teams.
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