2025 Graduate FMO Legal

We are hiring a Financial Markets Contracts Legal Officer to join our Financial Markets Contracts (FMC) team as part of our graduate programme. This team specialises in negotiations of derivatives and securities lending documentation across the global footprint of the Bank. The FMC team operates in a highly regulated and time sensitive environment and ensures the foundational documentation, upon which the Bank can safely offer trading across a whole variety of Financial Market products, is in place.

An FMC Legal Officer is a critical role that underpins much of the Bank’s business. An ability to negotiate master trading documentation as efficiently as possible and within the Bank’s risk appetite is crucial. The FMC team deliver work across multiple jurisdictions in support of multiple stakeholders and business segments. The work is high profile, sensitive, and often complex. The role provides a broad, holistic perspective of transaction management challenges and requirements across the organisation.

About Our Technology & Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

About The Graduate Programme

Graduates who join our programme will go through a learning and development journey before being placed into our operations roles. During this learning journey, we’ll invest in helping you build the skills and capabilities needed to succeed in a career in operations. In this excellent learning environment, we’ll:
• Provide you with domain knowledge of our products and other technical and meta-skills relevant to being a successful operation professional of the future.
• Provide opportunities for you to engage with our senior leaders globally, pitch your ideas, and demonstrate your problem-solving skills.
• Assign a mentor to advise you and be a sounding board to support you throughout your journey.
• Help you build relationships as we recognise that your network of contacts is an invaluable asset throughout your career.

Over a period of 18 months, you’ll experience an incredible and varied global learning experience, which will include:
• Talent assignments
• Technical and professional skills training
• Future skills development workshops
• Targeted online learning
• Inspiring thought leadership speaker events,
• Real-life business problem solving

We’ll provide you with the tools, training, network, and support to help you become a change agent, and drive innovation and creativity across the Bank.

Programme Preview

New joiner onboarding – to help orientate you into the Bank, your new team and your role. We want to make sure you feel supported in your first few weeks with us.

Learn and grow – with access to tools and learning experiences to help you realise your full potential. While the experience will vary depending on the team or role you join, you’ll be exposed to all sorts of ways to start your career.

Be part of the family – not only will you meet other students on our programmes, but you’ll also get to meet people from across the Bank, build your professional network and understand the Standard Chartered difference.

Responsibilities
• Support FMC to deliver on the vision, strategy, direction for FMC in region.
• Ensuring all documentation is compliant with the terms and spirit of the relevant Bank policies and procedures.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders including legal and tax teams.
• Drafting and negotiation of relevant documentation framework in line with credit approvals.
• Maintenance of centralised work tracking tools to enable both regional and global executive overview of work status and progress.
• Efficient and timely escalation of emerging and or realised risks
• Work closely with FMC in other regions to reduce duplicative work.
• Identify process improvement initiatives / opportunities to drive efficiency across FMC.
• Support all control checks undertaken by FMC under the Risk Framework.

Eligibility

We are looking for motivated and outstanding candidates to join our Financial Markets Contracts (FMC) team. Bring your hard-working attitude, and we will invest in your learning and capabilities to be future leaders in our organisation.
• We welcome students graduating in Law (BA. LLB) with excellent academic records and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
• Final year students, able to start July 2025
• Permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to

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.