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Internship in Client Management at Standard Chartered, Kuala Lumpur – hybrid working, starting Aug 2026
Explore real client challenges, build relationships, grow skills in international banking.
Client Management Internship Programme 2026
Our Client Management team sits at the centre of how we build and manage relationships with clients across our global Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business. We work across products, markets and teams to deliver solutions that support our clients’ ambitions.
As an intern, you’ll work alongside experienced colleagues, gain exposure to real client challenges, and start building the skills needed to develop trusted relationships in international banking.
About the Internship Programme – how you’ll learn and grow
You’ll be part of a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. During the internship, you’ll work on real business challenges, develop practical skills, and learn how we support clients, facilitate trade, and finance growth across our markets.
Working with colleagues across our global network, you’ll build the confidence, experience, and connections to support your future career.
You’ll benefit from:
- A structured induction and onboarding experience
- Exposure to our products, clients and international network
- Real work and meaningful responsibilities from day one
- Training to develop technical, professional and behavioural skills
- Ongoing support from managers, mentors and buddies
- Opportunities to learn from senior leaders and industry experts
- Ways to get involved in community and volunteering initiatives.
Bring the skills - we’ll help you to build your career
We’re interested in your potential, not just your degree subject. Whether you’re studying business, finance, technology, engineering or another discipline, we’re looking for people who are motivated to learn, solve problems and make an impact.
You might be someone who:
- Enjoys building relationships and understanding client needs
- Is curious about businesses, industries, and global markets
- Can think critically and use analysis and sound judgement to solve problems
- Communicates clearly and confidently with different clients and stakeholders
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues across different teams and markets
- Learns quickly, stays curious and looks for opportunities to grow and develop
- Adapts confidently in a fast‑paced and evolving environment
- Takes ownership and shows initiative.
Eligibility
To apply, you should:
- Have graduated in 2026 or be due to graduate in 2027
- Be available to start the internship in August 2026
- 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 we encourage you to choose the opportunity that best fits your interests and career goals.
Key Dates
Interviews: July 2026
Start Date: August 2026
About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)
We are 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. We 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 us distinctive is our combination of deep local expertise with an extensive and unique global network. We support 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 our footprint.
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 wel
- 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 Assessment
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.
Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers