Standard Chartered Careers & Jobs in India

About Standard Chartered in India

Standard Chartered is a London-headquartered international bank. In India it has about 100 branches across 42 cities, and its Global Business Services centres in Bengaluru and Chennai run technology, operations, finance and risk work for the whole group. The bank says more than 17,000 technologists work for it in India.

Where it hires: Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram

Entry-level roles at Standard Chartered

• Graduate programme, in business, technology, operations, finance and risk tracks
• Summer internship for penultimate and final-year students, which feeds the graduate programme
• Apprenticeship programme, launched in India in 2025
• Graduate finance roles in Global Business Services for newly qualified CAs and CMAs

Standard Chartered hiring process for freshers

1. Apply online to one business area. You can't pick several in one application.
2. Skills Insight Assessment: about 60 minutes, with an untimed behavioural section and a 36-minute timed reasoning section.
3. Technology roles also take a coding simulation (45 to 85 minutes).
4. Workplace Scenarios: a one-way video interview of about 20 minutes, covering four scenarios.
5. Interview, starting with the Early Careers team.

Eligibility

Graduate roles are open to final-year students and graduates with the right to work in India, from any discipline. Internships need you to be in the penultimate or final year. The India apprenticeship asks for an engineering, technology, commerce, economics, science or administration degree with 60% or above, earned this year or in the last two years, and no previous apprenticeship or work experience.

Tips before you apply

• Vacancies open from 1 July in most countries and many close by February, so apply early in the cycle.
• If you're unsuccessful, you have to wait six months from your application date to reapply.
• The global graduate programme starts on 1 September each year.

Official Standard Chartered careers page