Transaction Services Intern UK

About the Internship Programme

Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. Over 10 weeks, you’ll work on real business challenges, build future-ready skills, and gain insight into how Standard Chartered supports clients, facilitates trade and finance growth across its markets. Working alongside colleagues across its global network, you’ll develop the skills, confidence and connections to accelerate your career. For many interns, this is the first step towards a graduate role with the company.

The programme will support your development through:

• A 10-week summer internship
• A structured induction and orientation
• Exposure to products, clients and the international network
• Real projects and meaningful responsibilities from day one
• Technical, professional and behavioural skills development
• Support from managers, mentors and buddies
• Opportunities to learn from senior leaders and industry experts
• Community and volunteering initiatives.

Where you could work

• Cash Management: Shape how global clients move money, optimising liquidity, powering real-time seamless payments, and driving innovation across markets.
• Trade: Enable global trade by helping buyers and sellers transact securely and efficiently.
• Implementation: Oversee the delivery of products and services to clients, ensuring seamless digital integration and execution.
• Transaction Banking Sales: Drive business growth by identifying client needs, shaping product solutions, and building long-term relationships.
• Digital Channel Solutions: Enable seamless client connectivity through innovative digital ecosystems of channels and platforms.

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

Standard Chartered welcomes students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, recognising that diverse perspectives drive innovation.

They are looking for people who can:

• Take ownership, show initiative and are willing to learn
• Think critically and solve problems using logic, analysis and sound judgement
• Learn quickly, stay curious and seek opportunities to grow and develop
• Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others
• Adapt and perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Are curious about how businesses, markets and economies connect and grow.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this internship, you should be a penultimate year student, able to intern in June 2027, and start full time in July 2028. You should have the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.

You can only submit one application within a six-month period, so take time to review the opportunities and apply for the role that best fits your interests, skills and career goals.

Key Dates

• Assessment Centres: October 2026 onwards
• Start Date: June 2027

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)

This division is a super-connector for many of the world’s largest companies across more than 50 markets, playing a central role in global trade, capital flows and economic growth. They work with governments, financial institutions, and some of the world’s most ambitious corporates to help them expand, invest, and navigate uncertainty across increasingly complex and fast-changing markets.

What makes this division distinctive is its combination of deep local expertise with an extensive and unique global network. It supports clients across risk management, financing, transaction services, advisory, and sustainable finance, helping move capital to where it’s needed most and supporting the real economy across its footprint.

What we offer

In line with the Fair Pay Charter, Standard Chartered offers 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 its unique diversity, across its teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment Assessments

Some roles use assessments to help understand how suitable you are for the role. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of the recruitment process.

Visit the careers website www.sc.com/careers