Corporate and Investment Banking
Our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business is focused on unlocking Africa’s potential and unleashing our continent’s rich capacity for growth. We provide large corporations (multinational, regional and domestic) and institutional clients with in-depth sector expertise and specialist capabilities. With our local and global presence, and access to global capital markets for advisory, transactional, trading and funding support, we open up exciting worlds of possibilities.
With our passion for Africa, we are committed to championing our continent's top talent and leveraging their expertise to drive positive impact while equipping our people with the means to truly flourish.
Our 'Human First' philosophy embraces the whole person in the workplace. It is our commitment to fostering each individual’s personal passions, dreams and professional growth which intertwines to form a vibrant, authentic and supportive community within our workplace.
We invite you to experience our Human First ethos through the eyes of our people. Watch how our passionate Standard Bank CIB people across Africa bring their whole selves to work; and how they’re building their careers and creating an impact as they do so.
Our department areas
Client Coverage
Our Client Coverage teams foster strategic relationships with valued clients across core sectors for CIB and the broader Standard Bank Group. We provide insight into the commercial, regulatory and operational realities by connecting our clients to opportunities with key industry players, governments, regulators and investors in Africa and abroad.
Our clients include large domestic, multi-national, public sector and international development groups – and we’re here to ensure their needs are serviced through a single point of entry across multiple solutions, geographies, industries and sectors.
Rise, grow and win with us in the following areas:
- Client Coverage
- Client Relationship Management (CRM)
- Client Data, Insights and Analytics
- Sector Coverage
Investment Banking
Our Investment Banking team is a leading provider of advisory, corporate debt solutions and capital markets services on the African continent, with footprints outside Africa in key global financial centres. We provide the insight and capability to leverage capital flows into, out of, and across Africa.
Rise, grow and win with us in the following areas:
- Advisory
- Debt Capital Markets,
- Equity Capital Markets
- Debt Solutions
- Structured Capital
- Equity and Investment Finance
- Sustainable Finance
Global Markets
We provide trading services and a risk warehouse to manage and mitigate risk in response to client strategies. This includes risk exposures in foreign exchange, interest rates, money markets, credit, equities and commodity markets.
Rise, grow and win with us in the following areas:
- Client Management
- Commodity Trading
- Credit Trading
- Equity Derivatives
- Exchange Traded Products
- Foreign Exchange
- Interest Rates Trading & Structuring;
- Money Market Instruments
Transaction Banking
Our Transaction Banking team provides clients with access to a comprehensive suite of transactional solutions for Africa. These enable clients to manage and move their money effectively; acquire and move materials, goods and services within and between countries; manage liquidity, currency, regulatory and country risks; and invest their profits and savings via asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies.
Rise, grow and win with us in the following areas:
- Cash management
- Trade finance
- Investor services
- Transactional banking solutions
Personal employee benefits designed with you in mind
Personal growth is also important to us, so as a part of our team, you’ll enjoy benefits designed to help you achieve your ambitions at work and in your private capacity, both now and in the future. The exact benefits you receive will depend on the country you join us in but can include the following:
Taking care of yourself
We don’t always know where life will take us, so we have put together a range of benefits tailored specifically to help you take care of yourself and those you love:
- Wellness programmes
- Counselling and advisory services
- Life, personal accident, incapacity and funeral cover
- Permanent health insurance (PHI) cover
- Discounted rates for voluntary benefits such as spouse life cover, dread disease cover, funeral cover for parents and/or parents-in-law and medical aid gap cover
Managing your finances
We all have goals in life, and we have several ways to help make them more accessible to you with significant savings. This includes the following:
- Retirement funding
- Discounted banking products
- Transactional and investment banking products
- Home loans and vehicle finance at preferential rates
- Access to credit
- Assistance with insurance and wills
- Online share trading
- Rewards
Rewards and recognition
We believe in recognising the hard work and positive approach of our people, so we have 3 formal recognition programmes:
- Beyond Excellence
- Mark of Excellence
- Long-service Awards
A healthy balance
Your life outside work is important, so we have a leave structure which gives you plenty of time to relax, thrive and be the best you. The exact leave benefits you receive will depend on the country you join us in but can include the following:
- Vacation leave
- Additional vacation leave
- Study leave
- Parental leave
- Compassionate / Family responsibility leave
- Special discretionary leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Sick leave
- Short-term incapacity leave
- Recognition leave
- Optional unpaid leave
Please note: We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to benefits. Instead, we believe in taking a more personal approach to giving our people what they need. That’s why our benefits package can look a little different, depending on where you’re based.
Talent acquisition journey
We believe in making dreams possible and connecting the brightest talent to the meaningful opportunities they need to build their skills, ignite their ambitions and get closer to their purpose.
Apply online
You’ll discover amazing career opportunities on our website, so start exploring. You can create a profile or log in with your existing details if you’ve already got one. There, you can complete the online application form and submit it along with the supporting documents we’ve requested.
Selection process
- Shortlist: Our talent acquisition specialist and relevant hiring manager review all applications and make a shortlist of the most suitable candidates.
- Competency-based interview: If you’re shortlisted, we’ll invite you to take part in a competency-based interview.
- Assessments: If you’re successful in the interview, you’ll move on to the assessments. Depending on the role you’re applying for, you might be asked to undertake a case-study exercise, technical test and psychometric assessment, as well as any other role-specific assessment.
- Panel interview: Then you’ll proceed to the final interview stage where you’ll meet an interview panel and get to ask further questions.
Pre-employment screening
If you have been successful in the selection process, our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch to get your consent for our pre-employment screening, which includes the following:
- Identity and educational qualification verification
- Credit record and criminal record
- Outside Business Interest Declaration and Personnel Account Trading Declaration
- Sanctions screening and confirmation of current employment
Offer
Candidates with satisfactory pre-employment screening will be presented to the hiring manager by the Talent Acquisition team for final review. The most suitable candidate will be extended an employment contract and offer letter, detailing everything they’ll need to know about their new role. The recruitment process is competitive; therefore, candidates who make it to the pre-employment screening stage are not guaranteed an offer.
Onboarding
Even before you join the Standard Bank family, we want you to think of us as your home, so before you join, we'll get you off to a flying start with our onboarding experience.
