Corporate Banking – Mustaqbali Graduate Program 2024 ( UAE National )

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’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 2024
• Be a UAE National with the family book
• 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 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.