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We’re really glad you’re considering a Standard Bank graduate programme. Whichever one you choose, you’ll get all the support, development and exposure you need to turn potential into progress from the very start.

That encompasses more than just your potential. Everything you do will push our whole business even further, and as you’re doing that you’ll also contribute to our continent’s remarkable story of progress. As you get on and get ahead, you’ll be helping us all move forward together.

Explore this brochure and our website standardbank.com/graduates to find out more and set things in motion.

Hello

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Forward-thinking

When we began our African business in 1862, we built our foundations on the pursuit of progress. We had a vision of a better bank that could adapt closely and meaningfully to local conditions, carefully positioned to understand its customers like no other. Whilst Standard Bank has grown and evolved ever since, that vision hasn’t changed in the slightest.

Looking ahead

We currently employ 50,000 people in 33 countries (18 of which are in Africa). With greater coverage and scale comes greater scope to effect powerful and enduring change for the communities in which we work and the people who rely on us. Although we’re immensely proud of our 150-year heritage, our attentions remain focused on the future.

Looking inside

Life at Standard Bank is fast-paced, challenging and exhilarating. Above all, we treasure and actively foster our working environment and ethos. Both are protected and promoted by the vision and set of values we all share; both guarantee your innovative ideas are heard and your efforts have demonstrable impact.

Looking outside

We know how important it is to do business in the right way, and we measure our principles and approach against exacting standards. When it comes to wider society, though, we need to think even more ambitiously. By helping build houses, addressing health problems, investing in grass-roots entrepreneurship, and sponsoring an array of cultural projects, we act on our commitment to help families and communities across Africa move forward. We’ll encourage and expect you to play your part too.

Our cultureOur story

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We have three main business units. Here’s a snapshot of what they do.

Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB)

• Corporate banking: understanding and addressing clients’ and investors’ needs – from the everyday to the extraordinary – as trusted advisers

• Investment banking: a broad range of advisory and financing solutions, covering mergers and acquisitions, capital restructuring, empowerment deals and more

• Global markets: trading, sales, structuring and risk management worldwide, plus local currency trading and insight in emerging markets

• Transactional products and services: locally tailored investor services, transactional banking and international trade services for corporate clients, asset managers and others

Personal and Business Banking (PBB)

• Mortgage lending: home loans for personal customers

• Instalment sale and finance leases: mainly for vehicles (consumers) and vehicles and equipment (businesses)

• Card products: credit and debit card services for individuals and companies

• Transactional and lending products: taking deposits, electronic banking, cheque accounts and lending through ATMs, branches, online or by phone

• Bancassurance: short and longer-term insurance products, plus financial planning services for clients

Our business

❝��When Standard Bank say you can make a difference for Africa, they really mean it.

As part of the graduate committee, I’ve helped drive a number of community projects. Things like painting and repairing underprivileged schools, offering tuition, and giving motivational speeches to youngsters.

All along we’ve chosen what to do and then made it happen. If you do it well your line manager will trust you to manage your own time and no one gets in your way. I think that’s a real measure of the values we hold here.❞

Shahiem Patel

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Personal and Business Banking (PBB) Graduate Development Programme

Shahiem says …

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Group Enabling Functions (GEF)

• Group Financial Crime Control: minimising the impact of financial crime and protecting our people, our assets, and our stakeholders’ trust in us

• Group IT: systems development, business analysis, architecture, project management, data warehousing, infrastructure, maintenance and production

• Risk Management: understanding all risks – from the economic to the political – that could affect our global business, and offering guidance to all parts of the bank

• Quantitative Modelling: one of our specialist Risk Management teams, auditing credit risk, market risk and other risk models

• Operations: a range of essential and complex services to ensure processes across the bank work as effectively and efficiently as possible

• Compliance: an independent function providing consultation and support to meet regulatory demands and manage reputational risk

• Procurement: processing and obtaining vital goods and services for our whole business – planning, financing, managing specifications and ensuring good value

• Group Finance: budgeting and forecasting, creating interim and annual financial statements, facilitating internal mergers and acquisitions, as well as dealing with analysts and investors

Our business Eugene says…

❝��I’ve only been on the programme for a year but I’ve already been exposed to so much.

Each rotation brings something different and you’re usually straight in at the deep end. You realise how different work is from study and how much goes into the deals we do here. I found that humbling, eye-opening and exciting.

If you take the initiative and ask for challenging work, you’ll get it – and people at all levels of our business will soon be looking for your views. That’s when you know you’re genuinely contributing to the progress of Standard Bank.❞

Eugene Nduku

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Risk programme

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Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB)

Whilst many corporate or investment banking graduate schemes force you to choose a role and specialist area before you begin your training, our CIB programme is built on a different philosophy altogether. We believe in showing you the full scope of our business and opportunities before asking you to choose where you could make the biggest difference.

You’ll start with classroom-based training to boost your technical and soft skills before moving on to rotations in corporate banking, transactional products and services, global markets and investment banking. From there, you’ll receive product-specific training and then you’ll be ready for another, longer, rotation in your area of choice.

Duration: 12 – 18 months

Degree: Minimum postgraduate; especially business science, economics, investment management, financial management, engineering or financial mathematics

Previous work experience: Maximum two years post qualification

Citizenship: You must be a citizen or permanent resident of the country you’re applying to; for the Johannesburg programme, you must be a South African citizen.

Our programmes

Personal and Business Banking (PBB) Head Office Programme

Personal and Business Banking (PBB) Channel Programme – Provincial

Both of our PBB programmes require and reward your dedication, initiative and ability to draw relevant insights, so we’ll want to see all three as we rotate you through various areas of our business. We’re not just looking to train today’s graduate talent; we’re hoping you’ll strive to become tomorrow’s most senior leaders.

Our Head Office Programme in Johannesburg takes you through personal banking, business banking, inclusive banking and core banking, exposing you to the breadth of our activities and keeping your career path flexible.

If you’d prefer a customer-facing business role in our wider network (across the nine provinces), working towards branch or sales management, the Channel Programme will equip you perfectly, with rotations in local market management, personal offerings and business banking.

Duration: 12 months

Degree: Minimum undergraduate; especially business science, economics, financial management, human resources, marketing or agricultural sciences

Previous work experience: Maximum one year post qualification

Citizenship: You must be a citizen or permanent resident of the country you’re applying to; for our South African programmes, you must be a South African citizen.

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CA (SA) Training Programme

If you’re looking to become a truly expert, truly experienced chartered accountant in our prestigious organisation, we’re looking for the brightest and the best who could end up leading it. This programme will give you the financial management skills, commercial exposure and leadership capabilities to achieve both.

You’ll fulfil your SAICA requirements by rotating through different areas of our business, from tax to emerging markets, and you could even spend time abroad. With a range of further training and development opportunities, including a bursary to continue your studies, it’s up to you how far and how fast your career goes.

Duration: 36 months

Degree: Completed or completing SAICA-accredited Certificate in the Theory of Accounting


Our programmes

Global Financial Crime Control (GFCC)

This programme will equip you with all the skills and experience you need to begin and build a career tackling corporate crime. Thanks to the exposure we’ll give you to financial crime investigation and forensic audit, you’ll also be ready to qualify as a fraud examiner.

We’ll give you true exposure to our business from the start, with rotations around our three business units in South Africa and beyond. You’ll see the vast variety of roles in our business first-hand through shadowing, client contact, and your own project work.

Duration: Two years

Degree: Minimum BCom or equivalent. You must have studied forensic accounting, accounting and taxation applications; law subjects are an advantage



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Marietha says…

Group Compliance

Compliance is all about thinking and acting ahead, which means you’ll have a lot to pick up at the start of this programme, and quickly. You’ll receive intensive academic learning alongside a series of rotations in different disciplines and areas of our business, giving you everything you need to protect our business today and shape it tomorrow.

You’ll experience the specific risks and challenges we face by spending time with compliance and internal audit, covering both CIB and PBB. There’ll be ad hoc assignments throughout, and we may even send you to the University of Johannesburg to gain your Certificate in Compliance Risk Management.

Duration: 18 months

Degree: Minimum B.Com Law / LLB combination



Our programmes

❝��We want to make progress and that's what Standard Bank wants for you too.

So from the minute you walk in it’s real life, real work and real deals. Your responsibility increases over time and moving between different departments means you quickly build up the bigger picture of the business.

Joining Standard Bank is the best decision I’ve ever made. The culture here is fantastic – respecting different cultures and ways of working, but all pushing for the same thing. And the best bit? You’re honestly allowed and encouraged to be yourself.❞

Marietha Koorzen

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Our programmes

Group IT

Depending on your skills and career aspirations, you’ll join one of four IT graduate streams and spend time with a mix of our CIB, PBB and Group teams, getting to know business analysis, architecture, development, data warehousing, infrastructure, and maintenance and production. Each rotation blends technical development, learning experiences and business exposure.

Where you end up is in your hands. You’ll have the training and expertise to do what you want, so we hope you’ll have spotted where you can make the biggest difference to our business. That’s how you’ll make the biggest start to your career.

Duration: 18 months

Degree: Minimum BCom or BSc with a major in IT or maths



Operations

This programme will give you the skills and experience to be an ops specialist or an ops generalist, depending on what suits you best. We understand the importance of finding and fostering senior leadership potential as early as possible, so this programme could help take you in that direction, too.

From the start you’ll gain breadth of expertise with a series of rotations of two to four months in our various ops areas: CIB, PBB, GEF, ops control, strategy change, business management and process improvement. You’ll also be encouraged to start building networks and communities of best practice throughout our business.

Duration: 18 months

Degree: Minimum BCom or BSc



Every year we run an IT competition for teams of undergraduates from universities across South Africa. It’s your chance to experience the sort of technological challenges we face every day at Standard Bank – and to see whether you’re cut out for a career helping us crack them.

It doesn’t matter what you’re studying right now. As long as you’re interested in applying smart thinking and smart technology to solve problems, you’re in with a chance. And it’s a unique taster of this part of our business.

Head to standardbank.com/graduates for all the details.

Have you got it?

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Our programmes

Group Vendor Management and Procurement

Just like the nature of our work, your experience with us is guaranteed to be fast-paced, focused and fundamental to our business. This programme will equip you with the right mix of technical and specialist capabilities to find and fulfil your potential, as you help our bank do the same.

Whether you choose to focus on business management, vendor management, sourcing or shared services, you’ll soon see the impact of your work and the scope of your opportunities. By working through a series of rotations, you’ll gain the technical knowledge, learning experiences and business exposure you need to succeed.

Duration: 18 months

Degree: Minimum BCom. You must have studied supply chain management or logistics



Group Real Estate Services

Very few graduate schemes can guarantee the sort of variety you’ll enjoy throughout this programme. With rotations through business areas including client services, facilities services and maintenance, finance and business management, and space management, it’s the perfect way to gain a broad understanding of how facilities management works within a major bank.

The variety doesn’t end with the business areas you’ll gain exposure to. You’ll also build your experience across a wide range of responsibilities and development opportunities: conducting research and delivering your findings, job shadowing, attending client meetings and functions, case studies, report writing, project work, presentations and analysis.

Duration: 18 months

Degree: Minimum undergraduate; ideally postgraduate in hospitality, facilities management, business science or business management, financial management, engineering, interior design or interior architecture



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Risk

There’s only one thing we take more seriously than reducing risk and ensuring our business makes the best decisions right now: finding people with the skill and staying power to help shape how we do it in the future.

You’ll start this two-year programme by joining one of three streams (CIB, PBB or PBB operational risk), to ensure you’re on the most appropriate development path for your career with us. Through a series of rotations you’ll glean close-up and comprehensive experience of our work and impact, ensuring your specialism soon matures into expertise.

Duration: 23 months

Degree: Minimum BCom or BSc. You must have studied accounting, finance, statistics or economics



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Quantitative Modelling

In our work there are only two variables that really count: risk for our business and value for our business. We’ll show you how to minimise the first and maximise the second from the start of this programme, as you gain the blend of technical skills, real-world experience and personal development you need to build your career here.

You’ll be surrounded by experts as you prove yourself in model development, model validation, scorecard development and stress testing, treasury capital management, operational risk, market risk and internal audit, during three six-month rotations within the quantitative environment across our business units.

Duration: Two years

Degree: Minimum BCom or BSc. You must have studied quantitative analysis, applied and computational maths, statistics or pure maths



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How you’ll grow

We strive to push our bank forward so we can effect real, positive change for the communities we work in today and those we hope to work in tomorrow. The only way we’ll realise those aspirations is by first helping our people to push themselves forward and expand their potential.

Your core training is adapted to the programme you choose, but everything else rests with you. As well as a continent of untapped potential, you’ll discover a world of development opportunities, from shadowing senior colleagues to sharing expertise at international conferences.

We’re committed to quality and value in everything we offer our customers, and you’ll be contributing to both from the moment you join us. It’s only fair we recognise the quality you bring and show you just how much we value it.

You’ll see that in how we manage and reward your performance, as well as the extra benefits you could be entitled to (the chance to travel, perhaps, or some shares in the bank). It all depends on the programme you choose, and one other huge factor: you.

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Your exact recruitment process depends on the programme you’re applying for, but there are three main steps:

1. Apply online

You’ll need to create an account, complete your application and attach your CV.

2. First interviews

If you pass our first screening we’ll invite you to interview – on campus, at our offices or over the phone. We may ask you back for a further interview or psychometric test.

3. Assessment centre

The last step, and the most intensive. At our Global Leadership Centre you’ll be taking part in a range of interviews, presentations and team exercises while getting the opportunity to network with some of our most senior bankers.

It all begins at www.standardbank.com/graduates

What now?Amukelani says…

❝��The programme is everything I expected it to be – and much, much more.

As soon as you join there’s comprehensive training and inductions. Everything you need to integrate fast. While you’re on the programme, you get to work with great teams and learn from the best in the business. Every day is really challenging, so you get an amazing sense of achievement very early on. You get involved in a variety of activities while on the programme – from performing industry and company-specific research to financial modelling, putting PowerPoint presentations together and interacting with corporate clients for purposes such as performing their credit review. The CIB programme is a year of fast-paced learning.

It’s more than professional development, too. One of my most rewarding experiences has been mentoring someone from a local high school, helping ensure they meet their potential. I had a mentor when I was young and it’s great to give something back while broadening my skills.❞

Amukelani Shilubane

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African Leadership Academy (ALA) Scholarship

The ALA is a world-class pan-African secondary institution that educates outstanding students, helping them develop into principled, ethical leaders for Africa. By partnering with the ALA, Standard Bank has helped extend this unique offering to the children of Africa, near and far.

If you’ve shown extraordinary acts of leadership in your community, this scholarship will give you the chance to spend two pre-university years at the ALA in Honeydew, Johannesburg. Head to the www.africanleadershipacademy.org to learn more and to take advantage of this rare opportunity.

Standard Bank Group Postgraduate Bursary

For financially deserving and academically strong undergraduates at the University of Cape Town, Wits University, the University of Pretoria, USIU and Strathmore University in Kenya. Applications open in May.

Women in Technology Postgraduate Bursary

For young women wishing to pursue postgraduate studies in information technology at the University of Cape Town, Wits University, the University of Pretoria and Rhodes University. Applications open in May.

By connecting the brightest young Africans with the educational opportunities they need, we can secure real progress for them and for our whole continent. It’s how we’ll shape and strengthen the next generation of African talent and African leaders.

In honour of our 150th anniversary, we’re offering 150 bursaries and scholarships each year, designed to promote academic excellence (in commerce, science, engineering and technology) and to target a range of recipients. Take a look now and keep checking back for application details.

Derek Cooper International African Leader Scholarship

Named after the former Standard Bank Group chairman, this unique educational funding opportunity is aimed at high-performing individuals from the African continent who are looking to pursue postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics (or a similarly prestigious university).

Standard Bank Group Bursary

This is designed for school leavers (matriculants or A level students) wishing to pursue an undergraduate degree in commerce, science, engineering or technology. Preferred universities for this educational funding opportunity are the University of Cape Town, Wits University, the University of Pretoria and Rhodes University. Applications open in May.

Our bursaries

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Standard Bank winter school

If you’re in your last year of university and you’re considering a future in banking, our one-week winter school is a unique opportunity to build momentum and get a taste of what makes Standard Bank careers special.

You’ll gain real exposure to our business by spending time with various teams at our head office and tackling relevant case studies, and we’ll encourage you to network with our directors and senior managers. It’s a combination that’ll provide you with insights you simply won’t find elsewhere.

Where? Global Leadership Centre, Morningside, Johannesburg

When? 8 – 12 July 2013 or 15 – 19 July 2013

How? We can provide accommodation at our Global Leadership Centre in Morningside, Johannesburg. If you live outside of Gauteng Province we’ll arrange your travel.

How to apply

There’s no separate application for winter school, so you’ll need to apply for one of our South Africa graduate programmes before 17 May 2013. If you score well in the initial screening and telephone interviews, we’ll offer you a place by 14 June 2013.

However, a place on the winter school programme doesn’t guarantee a place on the graduate programme. You’ll still need to take part in the assessment centre.

If you’ve got any questions, get in touch at [email protected]

standardbank.com/graduates

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