Standard Bank: PPB Risk Graduate Programme 2025

Learnerships Hub; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking talented individuals for their 18-month graduate trainee program in Risk Management. The program offers comprehensive training across various analytical domains including Credit Solutions and Fraud Risk Management, preparing graduates for a fulfilling career in risk practice while providing them with mentorship from senior professionals.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement: South African Citizen.
• Honours qualification to be completed by 31 December 2025.
• Work experience should not exceed 18 months.

Responsibilities

• Learn about the Credit Lifecycle and participate in value-adding projects.
• Contribute to fraud insights and analytics.
• Drive modernization of digital credit solutions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Coding

Collaboration

Data Science tools

Education

Masters or Honours in BSc / Bcom / BDatSci

Statistics

Data Science

Pure Mathematics

Actuarial Science

Informatics / Information Systems

Computer Science

Computational and Applied Mathematics

Econometrics

Behavioural Economics

Job description

We’re looking for talented individuals to join our Risk Management division as Graduate Trainees.

The aim of our 18-month graduate programme is to equip you with skills and experiences deemed necessary to set you up for becoming a skilled Risk Practitioner, with guidance and support from Senior Executives & Managers who run the Risk Management portfolios.

Through a series of rotations, you will learn how risk is managed in the bank and gain extensive experience in a wide range of analytical areas within the Personal & Private Banking (PPB) Risk business unit. These areas include Decision Science, Credit Solution Engineering and Lending portfolios (i.e., Credit Card, Home Finance, Car Finance and Personal Loans), Fraud Risk Management and Non-financial risk.

You will be recruited as a permanent employee from the start of the program and placed into a team of choice, after rotations conclude.

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During this 18-month programme you can look forward to:

• Learning about the Credit Lifecycle
• Participating in value adding projects
• Ad hocreporting, insights and analytics to inform business decisions
• Collaborating with various teams
• Learning/improving coding skills
• Driving modernisation of digital credit solutions/strategies in Africa Regions
• Contributing to fraud insights and analytics
• Scorecard, capital, impairments and/or machine learning model monitoring and/or development
• Building credit strategies
• Using data science tools to automate risk assurance processes.

Qualifications

Masters or Honours in:

• BSc / Bcom / BDatSci
• Statistics
• Data Science
• Pure Mathematics
• Actuarial Science
• Informatics / Information Systems
• Computer Science
• Computational and Applied Mathematics
• Econometrics
• Behavioural Economics

Honours qualification to be completed by 31 December 2025

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Additional Information

Minimum requirements:

• South African Citizen
• Should you have work experience, it should not exceed 18months
• Full academictranscripts to be submitted with application for undergraduate and postgraduate studies