Group Transformation Office Graduate

Transformation, Technology & Operations – Group Transformation Office Graduate

The digital revolution has transformed banking and financial services. At the centre of our evolution is our Transformation, Technology and Operations (TTO) team. They partner with our business, functions, regional and market teams, across our global footprint, to reshape our future. They’re a diverse, collaborative team, leading cutting-edge and complex transformation projects and providing and maintaining banking operational excellence. All teams bring passion, innovation, diversity of thought and culture, and an ambition to realise our transformation journey.

The Group Transformation Office (GTO) drives and executes the overall strategic transformation agenda so that the Bank can achieve its target strategic outcomes. The GTO includes Transformation Strategy, Operational Excellence, Delivery Excellence, Design Excellence, Programme Management, and Portfolio Analytics. The office collaborates closely with strategic leaders across the Bank’s businesses and functions to build and drive the Bank-wide transformation.

Our work is broad; we help the Board of Directors and top management to understand key industry trends and their implications, and work directly with the leadership teams in business segments, geographies, and functions to define their strategic priorities and implementation plans.

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.

At the end of your 18-month programme, you’ll join a role in Transformation Office. These could be in areas such as:

Strategy

• Operational Excellence
• Delivery Excellence
• Design Excellence
• Portfolio Analytics and Programme Management

What you’ll do over 18 months

Induction – these are classroom sessions, case studies, and tailored technical training split by business functions. 12 months training rotation – you’ll spend twelve months in training rotations to broaden your experience into areas including Strategy, Operational Excellence, Delivery Excellence, or Portfolio Analytics and Programme Management. 6 months business rotation – your last rotation will add to your knowledge of the Group Transformation team. It’s your chance to find the team you fit into best and begin your Standard Chartered career.

Eligibility

• We welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage students from diverse backgrounds to apply.
• Final year students, able to start July 2024
• Permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to
• We’re looking for team players who are agile, flexible, multi-tasking and open to nimble learning

Exceptions

• UK and UAE, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship. In the UAE, priority is given to UAE nationals
• US Graduate roles, we will not consider applicants seeking Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT) employment. 

About Standard Chartered 

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our colleagues, clients and communities. And we’re on a journey to be the world’s most sustainable and responsible bank. 

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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term 
• 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 includes volunteering leave, maternity and parental leave for spouse/partner, compassionate leave, sabbatical leave, along with market competitive annual leave
• 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.