Intern (m/w/d), Corporate & Investment Banking - Financial Markets

Who we are

Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered Bank gives you the opportunity to be more innovative, empowered, and impactful and take your career as far as you desire. 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. For more than 160 years, we've been providing world-class financing, investment, treasury, and strategic advisory services to our clients. We've supported their growth, where and when it matters most. We're the preferred banking partner to over 5,000 clients, covering large corporates, financial institutions, governments, small and medium-sized enterprises, and investors, facilitating global trade, capital and investment flows for them around the world.

Standard Chartered Bank AG is a hub of Bank's activities in Central Europe and is looking to hire interns into our office located in the heart of Frankfurt.

Our Financial Markets team

A diversified product offering, and extensive global footprint differentiates our Financial Markets team. By understanding the markets in which we operate, as well as the emerging trade and investment corridors in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, we provide clients with risk management, financing, and investment expertise, while building trusted relationships across many industries and sectors through bespoke solutions across asset classes. Here is where ambition meets impact - join us to shape the future of banking.
Become a part of an exciting international environment and work with international teams throughout the world. 

What you will experience

We are looking to hire students for internship for the duration of 3-6 months starting 2025. Through this immersive programme, you'll learn about our Corporate and Banking (CIB) products, how they’re structured, how we manage varying risk types, and the processes and people needed to support our clients. You will have a chance to:
•    Get to know the Bank and relevant stakeholders through our comprehensive induction sessions.
•    Gain valuable practical experience with on-the-job and general training sessions. 
•    Participate in our exclusive speaker series featuring presentations by senior management and engagement with executive management.
•    Expand your network by collaborating closely within the CCIB business function and across other divisions.
•    Get involved in impactful community service initiatives. 

Your profile

•    We welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage students from diverse backgrounds to apply.  
•    We’re looking for team players with excellent academic achievements and extracurricular activities, agile multi-taskers who can handle pressure, analytical minds with numeracy and attention to detail, and enjoyment of fast paced, dynamic environments.
•    To become eligible for the internship programme you need to be a penultimate year student. 
•    To become eligible for the internship programme you need to have a permanent legal right to work in Germany.

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 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

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.