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Financial Markets Graduate Programme (UAE Nationals) 2026

Requisition Number: 43536
Job Location: Dubai, ARE
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Graduates
Posting Start Date: 26/01/2026
Posting End Date: 30/04/2026
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Financial Markets Graduate Programme - 2026
Our Financial Markets team helps clients navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and manage risk across asset classes. From foreign exchange and interest rates to debt securities and commodities, we deliver bespoke solutions that power global trade and investment. Financial Markets sits at the heart of our Corporate and Investment Banking business, connecting clients to the capital they need and the opportunities that drive growth.
About the Graduate Programme - how you'll learn and grow
Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. From day one, you'll build the skills that matter - through real-world projects, mentoring, and tailored learning journeys. Our 12-month graduate programme is designed to accelerate your development and set you up for long-term success. You'll benefit from:

• Structured learning: Classroom training combined with hands-on experience
• Global collaboration: Work with diverse teams and experienced leaders
• Skill development: Build technical expertise and professional capabilities

Where you could work
During the assessment process, we'll help you explore which of the following areas best match your strengths and interests:

• Sales: Build trusted relationships with institutional clients and deliver investment strategies tailored to their goals. Collaborate across teams to execute trades and manage risk.

• Trading: Make markets and manage positions across asset classes. Use data, analytics, and instinct to navigate volatility and drive performance.

• Structuring: Design and price complex financial products. Combine quantitative modelling with commercial insight to deliver innovative client solutions.

• Financing Risk: Structure and distribute financing deals that support sustainable growth. Manage risk exposure and ensure regulatory alignment.

• Research: Deliver differentiated insights across macroeconomics, FX, credit, ESG, commodities, and geopolitics. Help clients and internal stakeholders make smarter decisions.

Bring the skills and we'll help you build your career
We believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You'll be:

• A final-year student, graduating by July 2026
• Legally eligible to work full-time in the country you're applying to.
• A team player with strong academic performance and extracurricular achievements.
• Analytical, numerate, and detail-oriented.
• Adaptable and resilient in fast-paced environments.
• Curious about global markets and driven to make an impact.

For technical roles, we particularly value backgrounds in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics.
Key Dates and Exceptions

• Assessment Centres: January 2026.
• Start Date: July 2026.

Exceptions

• UK & UAE: Candidates requiring visa sponsorship will be considered.
• UAE: Priority is given to UAE nationals.

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)
We support a wide range of clients - from local businesses to global corporations, governments, banks, and institutional investors - with their transaction banking, financial markets, and financing needs.

• Serving over 20,000 clients across 54 markets, we operate in some of the world's fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.
• Our deep local presence enables us to co-create tailored solutions and connect clients to investors, suppliers, buyers, and sellers.
• Our products and services help clients move capital, manage risk, and invest to create wealth.

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.

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.
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