SME Banking Apprentice Singapore 2025

at  Standard Chartered

Job ID: 13139
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Business Support, Management & Efficiency
Job type: Apprentice
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 17 Jan 2025

SME BANKING APPRENTICE 2025

We’re looking for talented, driven Polytechnic graduates to join our 12-month SME Banking Apprenticeship Programme. Over a year, you’ll get involved with real world projects, learn on the job and build your network across the Bank.
SME Banking (SME) within Standard Chartered Bank aims to provide companies in Singapore a suite of product that meets their operating and financing requirements.
This includes assisting the SME Relationship Manager to grow and deepen SME Banking client relationships through effective relationship management, with focus on SME clients’ total business needs and cross-selling products to the new and existing SME clients to maximise the clients’ affinity to the Bank.

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 YOU’LL BE DOING

As part of the SME Banking team, you’ll get involved with projects such as:

• Building prospects via marketing calls,and expand existing customer relationships through pro-active customer contact and account management.
• Assisting Relationship Managers (RMs) in sales closures, providing excellent customer service
• Understanding the client onboarding process for SME Banking, including product and lending programmes.
• For borrowing clients, partnering Relationship Managers and Credit Analysts to perform end-to-end Business Credit Applications and/or annual reviews.
• Learning the products available to SME clients, including all cash management, loans, trade, investments, insurance, and hedging solutions.
• Giving regular feedback to management on product, processes based on customer feedback.

During this learning journey, you will embark on two 6 months rotations. You will be exposed to different projects and tasks, alongside structured trainings, mentorship and on-the-job learning. Through the programme, you’ll experience an incredible and varied global learning experience, which include:

• Talent assignments
• Technical and professional skills training
• Future Skills and development workshops
• Targeted online learning
• Inspiring thought leadership speaker events
• Real-life business problem solving and mor