Wealth & Retail Banking Graduate

Standard Chartered; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is offering the Mustaqbali Graduate Program 2026 in Dubai. The program provides entry-level opportunities in various sectors such as Wealth and Retail Banking and Islamic Banking. Candidates should be final year students with a Bachelor's degree and a GPA of 2.8 or higher, ready to start by July 2026. Alongside competitive salary and benefits, the program ensures tailored training and networking with senior management, making it an ideal start for your career in financial services.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual leave and parental leave

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support programs

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Final year student able to start in July 2026.
• Excellent academic records, GPA 2.8 or higher.
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Gain hands-on experience in various banking sectors.
• Participate in tailored training and development plans.
• Network with senior management.

Skills

Driven mindset

Flexibility

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

Overview

Mustaqbali Graduate Program 2026

Our Standard Chartered UAE local graduate programme (Mustaqbali - مستقبلي) provides opportunities to move straight into a full-time role. We offer a wide range of entry level positions for individuals who know that they want to kick start their careers in the financial services industry.

Our industry leading bankers will help you join one of the specialties below. As part of our assessment process, we help you learn more about the opportunities and determine which best suits your skills, attributes, and interests. Through the opportunities below, you’ll gain hands-on experience and become an integral part of the team.

• Wealth and Retail Banking
• Islamic Banking
• Transaction Banking
• Operations
• Internal Audit
• Treasury
• Corporate Banking
• Compliance
• SC Ventures

You will follow a tailored training and development plan and will be supported and encouraged along the way through buddy and mentoring schemes and have the opportunity to network with our senior management team.

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.

About the programme

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• UAEN with the family book
• Driven mindset and comfort working in fast-paced, evolving environment
• GPA 2.8 or higher

Eligibility

We welcome students from all degree disciplines with excellent academic records and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll be a final year student, able to start in July 2026, with the 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

• In the UK and UAE, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship. In the UAE, priority is given to UAE nationals
• For 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 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

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