Apprentice WRB India 2026

Standard Chartered India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 167,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered India invites applications for the Wealth & Retail Banking Apprenticeship Programme in India. Over 12 months you’ll take real responsibility from day one, working to grow and protect clients' wealth while building your skills in a global bank.

You’ll gain hands-on experience across teams, learn digital tools shaping our products, and meet senior leaders. Eligibility includes graduating in 2026, with opportunities in multiple cities such as Mumbai.

Qualifications

• Strong academic performance and extracurricular involvement.
• Analytical thinkers with attention to detail.
• Excellent project management and communication skills.
• Team players with agility and resilience.
• Backgrounds in Finance & Banking, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, and Statistics.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of meaningful work that contributes to client and business priorities.
• Build commercial awareness and understanding of how we serve, support, and build relationships with our clients.
• Develop analytical and problem-solving skills by working with data and business information.
• Learn how digital tools and technology are shaping the way we deliver products, services and experiences.
• Collaborate with colleagues across teams, functions and markets.
• Strengthen your communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Gain exposure to senior leaders and thought‑leadership sessions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Communication skills

Team player

Agility & resilience

Finance & Banking background

Economic & quantitative mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree (any discipline)

Job description

Wealth & Retail Banking Apprentice - India

Our 12 Months Apprenticeship Programme is designed to give you real responsibility from day one, with the opportunity to build your skills in a function that helps individuals and businesses grow, manage and protect their wealth.

Throughout The Programme, You’ll

• Take ownership of meaningful work that contributes to real client and business priorities
• Build your commercial awareness and understanding of how we serve, support, and build relationships with our clients
• Develop analytical and problem-solving skills by working with data and business information
• Learn how digital tools and technology are shaping the way we deliver products, services and experiences
• Collaborate with colleagues across teams, functions and markets
• Strengthen your communication and stakeholder management skills
• Gain exposure to senior leaders and thought‑leadership sessions

By the end of the year, you’ll have built practical skills, gained experience of working in a global business and developed a clearer understanding of where a career in Wealth & Retail Banking could take you.

Bring the skills - we’llhelp youbuild your career

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, recognising that diverse perspectives drive innovation.

We’re Looking For

• Strong academic performance and extracurricular involvement
• Team players with agility and resilience
• Analytical thinkers with attention to detail
• Passion for dynamic, fast-paced environments
• Excellent project management and communication skills
• Fortechnical roles, we particularly value backgrounds in Finance & Banking, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics and Statistics.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this apprenticeship programme, you need to have graduated from college in 2026.

You can only submit one application within a six‑month period, so take time to review our opportunities and apply for the role that best fits your interests, skills and career goals. Your work location could be one of multiple cities including Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad among others.

About Our Wealth & Retail Banking Team

We serve more than 13 million individuals and small businesses, with a focus on the affluent segment which encompasses Private Banking, Priority Private, Priority Banking, and Premium Banking. Within the mass retail sector, our strategic focus is on emerging affluent clients who will progress in their wealth journey with us, forming the future pipeline of affluent clients.

We’re a leading wealth manager in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and our deep local presence and international network enables us to capture the strong structural tailwinds which are driving cross‑border wealth flows. Our comprehensive product offerings span across deposits, payments, financing, advisory, investments and bancassurance.

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,

• 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.