Job Description

Audit Intern (Data Science) 2025Group Internal Audit (GIA) is an independent function supporting the Standard Chartered Board and Executive Management team. We do this by helping protect the Group's assets, reputation, and sustainability. GIA represents the Bank's third line of defence, we also provide independent assurance on the effectiveness of the management control of business activities (the first line), and the control of processes maintained by risk frameworks and policy owners (the second line).About the programmeOur 6-month Internship Programme gives you the opportunity to gain first-hand experience working on real-world problems, hone your skills, create lasting relationships, gain insights, and discover your strengths. Throughout the programme, you'll acquire the skills for immediate success, as well as understand what's required for the future as our industry and your career evolve. A strong performance on the programme could lead to a graduate job offer.Through this immersive programme, you'll learn about our Group Internal Audit (GIA) team and the processes, people and roles. You'll gain a thorough understanding of what a career within the GIA team could look like.Your programme will include:

• A one-day orientation introduces you to the Bank and your fellow interns
• Four days of classroom instruction on our products, our business, and our bankers
• On-the-job training and technical seminars to support your learning
• Performance reviews and support of managers, mentors, and buddies
• Presentations by senior management (speaker series) and engagement with executive management
• Networking within the GIA business function and across other divisions
• Gain Working experience of Audit tools and Audit Methodologies
• Engaging in community service

As an GIA Intern, you will have the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience in the field of internal auditing. You will work closely with the Internal Audit team to assess and enhance our internal controls, identify potential risks, and contribute to the overall improvement of our processes.What you'll be doing

• You'll gain insights across the Bank's audit risk areas using data science / advanced analytics techniques to identify risks and drive innovation.
• You'll work closely with key stakeholders to understand data flow, data points, and advise on how they can be leveraged-in the design of data analytical solutions.
• Contributing to design and implementation (includes data sourcing, data preparation, data transformation, and modelling). Deliver predictive outputs and insights in an automated and self-service manner.
• Providing insights and guidance on the interpretation of models/analytics outputs so that appropriate actions can be taken by the audit teams.
• Embrace the agile philosophy and continuously seek feedback for continuous improvement
• Writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code. Develop and maintain technical documentation.
• Creating and optimising workflows, automation scripts, and business logic to achieve desired automation outcomes.

EligibilityWe welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage students from diverse backgrounds to apply.We're looking for team players with excellent academic achievements and extracurricular activities, with strong collaboration, project management and technical skills, with the desire to innovate and challenge the status quo.You'll have experience with data science including regression, clustering, and supervised/unsupervised learning, as well as experience with data analysis techniques and data modelling. You'll be an analytical problem solver. Experience with Machine Learning (ML), GenAI, MLOps and statistics would be a plus.You need to be a penultimate year student, able to intern between July 2025 and May 2026. You'll have the permanent legal right to work in the country you're applying to.About Standard CharteredWe'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 offerIn 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.

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