Careers in India
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At Standard Chartered, we’re here for good – and that means doing the right thing for our colleagues as well as for our clients and communities. Wherever your talents lie, we're sure you'll find the perfect role at Standard Chartered. We’ll make sure you enjoy the learning, development and support you need to thrive. We succeed when our colleagues succeed, and the safety and wellbeing of our people always come first. We value and celebrate the diversity of our teams, so that everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential. It enables our teams to unlock innovation, make better decisions, deliver our business strategy, live our valued behaviours, and embody our brand promise, here for good.
Employee Resource Groups
We have six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support our colleagues.
Gender
This group supports women grow and develop both personally and professionally, providing access to mentoring and coaching, networking opportunities and sharing ideas with senior leaders.
Wellbeing
The goal of this group is to bring out the best in all our colleagues by establishing and maintaining a work environment that promotes wellbeing and healthy lifestyle choices, with a focus on mental, social, physical and financial wellbeing.
SC Pride
This Employee Resource Group was created to be a warm and welcoming place for LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies to connect through advocacy, facilities and policies.
Generations
Designed to leverage the uniqueness of each generation, this group helps to create a truly inclusive workplace for Standard Chartered employees, clients and communities.
Persons with Disability
This group is focused on helping create equal opportunities across the Bank, supporting colleagues with disabilities and ensuring our talent attraction processes are inclusive to all.
Nationality and Ethnicity
This Employee Resource Group was set up to create cultural awareness of different nationalities, ethnicities and religions, enabling our colleagues to make a greater impact on local communities.
Additional ways we support and care for our colleagues
To support an inclusive workplace for our colleagues we provide medical and relocation benefits for same-sex partners, run unconscious bias training sessions to support our inclusive culture and hold regular thought leadership speaker events.
For our clients we provide joint savings accounts for LGBTQ+ couples and provide a sign language helpline for our customers who are hearing or speech impaired.
To promote inclusivity in our communities, we work closely with our supply chain partners and have a range of LGBTQ+ empaneled vendors.
And we're a menopause confident workplace. We recognise that the menopause transition affects women and the larger ecosystem around them, which is why we support our colleagues to understand the signs of perimenopause and menopause, to ensure the we can provide the right help and support.
Did you know? More than 65% of our workforce are Millennials and Gen Z
Our Millennial Council aims to bridge generational gaps between colleagues and create respect and understanding across the organisation by leveraging insights from our millennial and Gen Z colleagues.
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Rewards and benefits
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits that support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing. Benefits include:
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life assurance
- Time-off including annual, parental, sabbatical, and volunteering leave
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical and digital virtual learning experiences
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform and development courses for resilience and other human skills
- Support for wellbeing challenges, including our global Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), sick leave provision, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- Onsite day care centres in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Chennai that can accommodate 90 children aged between six months to six years
"The Standard Chartered day care facility has been a huge support for me and my wife. My son has learnt to socialise early on in his life and understands the meaning of sharing. The mentors at the centre also prepare children well for facing school."
Shailesh Tailor
Helping our communities to thrive
Futuremakers is Standard Chartered’s global community initiative to tackle inequality and promote social inclusion across our markets. Futuremakers enables economic inclusion for young people through education, employability, and entrepreneurship programmes.
Seeing is Believing (SiB) is Standard Chartered’s global initiative to tackle avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The overall mission of SiB is to create sustainable eye-care services in lower-middle income countries, including India.
WASHE (water, sanitation, hygiene and education) addresses water scarcity & access, and sanitation in schools and communities, particularly focussing on the girl child. The programme has helped create a water-secure future by supporting scientific work and taking an integrated approach to water resource management in drought-prone villages.
Launched in 2011, WASHE (Water Sanitation Hygiene Education) is the Bank’s flagship community investment programme in India which provides access to water, sanitation facilities and education to adolescent girls in municipal schools, and disadvantaged communities at large. ‘Futuremakers’ is Standard Chartered’s new global community initiative to tackle inequality and promote social inclusion across our markets. We promote economic inclusion for youth, particularly for young women and girls in our communities. Our project with Aga Khan Institute in coastal Gujarat state looks at addressing the issue of salinity and effects of climate change.
Launched in 2011, WASHE (Water Sanitation Hygiene Education) is the Bank’s flagship community investment programme in India which provides access to water, sanitation facilities and education to adolescent girls in municipal schools, and disadvantaged communities at large. ‘Futuremakers’ is Standard Chartered’s new global community initiative to tackle inequality and promote social inclusion across our markets. We promote economic inclusion for youth, particularly for young women and girls in our communities. Our project with Aga Khan Institute in coastal Gujarat state looks at addressing the issue of salinity and effects of climate change.
Seeing is Believing (SiB) is Standard Chartered’s global initiative to tackle avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The overall mission of SiB is to create sustainable eye-care services in lower-middle income countries, including India. Under our Futuremakers theme, the Bank in India has set up career academies with multiple partners to help youth get trained and employed in the Eye Health and BFSI sector. So far, over 92,000 youth and eye care professionals have been trained to secure gainful employment across these academies and over 4,700 youth have been placed in the Financial services Industry.
Seeing is Believing (SiB) is Standard Chartered’s global initiative to tackle avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The overall mission of SiB is to create sustainable eye-care services in lower-middle income countries, including India. Under our Futuremakers theme, the Bank in India has set up career academies with multiple partners to help youth get trained and employed in the Eye Health and BFSI sector. So far, over 92,000 youth and eye care professionals have been trained to secure gainful employment across these academies and over 4,700 youth have been placed in the Financial services Industry.
Press releases
Standard Chartered to make 30 railway stations in India disabled friendly in partnership with Anuprayaas and Samarthanam Trust
We’re partnering with Anuprayaas and Samarthanam Trust to make 30 railway stations across India accessible for people with disabilities by providing a host of facilities. This is part of our 'Seeing is Believing' initiative to tackle avoidable blindness and visual impairment. This project aims to aid people with visual disabilities, people using wheelchairs, and people with hearing disabilities to travel independently and with dignity by reducing their dependency on others while travelling.
Standard Chartered & Seva Foundation launch new initiative ‘Envision’ - to create critical access to eye care for 4 million people in India
The Bank and Seva Foundation have partnered to create critical access to eye care for four million people in underserved communities in India through a new initiative – Envision. The two organisations along with partner hospitals will establish 65 new vision centres across nine states in India - Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and West Bengal.
Standard Chartered Bank collaborates with Sightsavers to bring down prevalence of blindness in remote Sundarbans region of West Bengal
The Bank, through its Seeing is Believing project, has partnered with Sightsavers to reduce the prevalence of blindness from the existing 0.7% to 0.3% of the population in the district of South 24 parganas in West Bengal by end of December 2025. The ‘High Impact Rural Eye Health Programme’ will prioritise work in 20 rural blocks in the remote Sundarbans region.
Awards and recognition We're proud to be recognised for a range of prestigious awards including...
Meet our people
Discover what it's like to work here from our colleagues.
Growing up as a gay individual in nineties’ India: Dharm’s story
It was only during my college days, when the internet started to become prevalent that I realised I could finally find a term to define what I was feeling.
From mentee to mentor – Khyati’s prosperous career as a relationship manager
Khyati Sanghvi began her working life at Standard Chartered and she has since flourished into an award winning Senior Relationship Manager.
Hear from Tarang Dhruva Head of performance management and costs CPBB
Banking and Finance was my chosen career preference right from my school days. I was surrounded by family members who were in the Finance space; my elder sibling was pursuing Chartered Accountancy.
Harsha: Working at Standard Chartered is being part of a huge family
Never in my wildest dreams, did I imagine working for a bank. My first job was with a newspaper in Mumbai, then I worked for a public relations firm for two years before going to Cardiff University in the UK.
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