Macro Sales is part of our Sales and trading division, within our Markets business as part of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB). Our macro sales teams speak directly to our Corporate and Institutional clients, providing them with markets products - such as foreign exchange, commodities, interest rate, money market, credit, financing and other bespoke solutions - to meet our client’s risk management and investment needs.
Our sales teams build deep, trusted relationships, leveraging our bank expertise to deliver targeted solutions to our clients.
About the role
The work placement opportunity is within our Financial Sponsors team, working with our private equity clients on risk management solutions across asset classes. The team also work on non-flow solutions for our insurance, pension fund and sovereign wealth clients in Europe & Americas.
This is an exceptional opportunity to spend time working alongside the team and you’ll get involved with tasks such as:
- Preparing client presentations with market updates, research and trading views
- Learning about pricing market transactions
- Gaining familiarity with more complex structures including option (rates, FX) pricing, deal contingent structures and other derivatives
- Learning about legal documentation and transaction structure
- Getting first hand insight into these client segments and experiencing life on a trading floor!
Who you are
The ideal candidate would need to demonstrate natural curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, excellent PowerPoint and communication skills, a strong analytical and technical mindset, an entrepreneurial spirit, good risk awareness and a strong work ethic
You will be an undergraduate or masters student looking for a placement programme as part of your studies. 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 enjoyment of fast paced, dynamic environments.
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.
