Graduate Investment Banking UAE 2025 UAE National

Investment Banking Graduate 2025
Our Investment Banking team is part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function and provides corporate and advisory services to facilitate capital raising for clients, underwriting, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and the execution of advisory mandates.
We partner with corporations, financial institutions, and governments to achieve their strategic goals through innovative solutions in complex cross-border transactions.

Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered Bank gives you the opportunity to be more.
You can be more innovative, empowered, and impactful and take your career as far as you want it to go.
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.

We support local and large corporations, governments, banks and investors with their transaction banking, financial markets and borrowing needs.

We provide solutions to more than 20,000 clients in some of the world's fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.
Our clients operate or invest across 50 markets across the globe.

Our strong and deep local presence enables us to help co-create bespoke financing solutions and connect our clients multilaterally to investors, suppliers, buyers and sellers.

Our products and services enable our clients to move capital, manage risk and invest to create wealth.
Our clients represent a large and important part of the economies we serve.
CIB is at the heart of the Group's purpose to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

About the Graduate Programme
You will be supported and launched into a banking career on a global scale through our 18-month graduate programme.
During our induction, you'll meet peers and senior executives from across the Bank, creating networks that will support your career growth.

Our training programme will enable you to develop your technical, business, and interpersonal skills.
You'll get real-world simulations and case studies that will make our training come alive.
Future skill development is a key priority across the programme and your career development, as we're committed to changing the way banking works for the better.

Your Role
Your role will be hands-on from day one, allowing you to develop your skills quickly and be an integral member of our team.
Investment Banking graduates perform research and analysis, financial modelling and valuation, and preparation of investment materials and presentations.
By supporting senior bankers in our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) teams, you'll learn to develop significant multi-product and sector-specific expertise in cross-border deals including:


Execution of end-to-end corporate finance transactions (both M&A and financing)
Developing detailed financial models to value companies and evaluate performance under a variety of scenarios, and analysing potential M&A or capital market transactions.

Preparing presentation materials for clients covering M&A execution, capital market activity, and general corporate finance
Contributing to the origination and execution of transactions, including due diligence and marketing materials
Researching and benchmarking companies, industries, and countries
Coordination of bank-wide deal team members
Providing daily project management and execution support for live transactions

Eligibility
We welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
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 those who are adept at building relationships and striving towards goals.
Our more technical positions will suit individuals with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Statistical proficiency.

You'll be a final year student, able to start July 2025, with the permanent legal right to work in the country you're applying to.

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 ma.

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