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Welcome to Hang Seng Bank's Management Trainee Programme career page. If you're seeking a kick-start to your career in one of Hong Kong's top domestic banks, our program offers the perfect opportunity. You can gain essential skills for success in the business world, establish valuable connections, and navigate the banking and financial services sector.
Join us in serving the local community and contributing to one of the World's Top 100 most sustainable companies. Here are all the information on what we seek in our Management Trainees (MTs) and the promising career prospects we offer.
Hang Seng’s Management Trainee Programme offers a holistic development approach, centred around 2 key dimensions, Enterprise and Professional. At the enterprise level, aspiring leaders are immersed in our purpose, values and strategies in fintech and Greater Bay Area business as well as Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. The professional level focuses on 8 business and function streams. You'll build your core banking knowledge and specialist skills in an inclusive environment and equip yourself with future skills, designed and offered through our expansive and agile learning environment, customised to enhance your development and growth.
The first 24 months of the programme will be about maximising your exposure in order to gain the essential work-related knowledge and skills through rotations across core departments. You'll acquire valuable experience by participating in bank-wide projects and working in cross-functional teams. You'll then leverage your core department rotations and choose a placement area which usually lasts up to 12 months, starting the development of your career in the selected area of expertise. The opportunities don't end here – when you have graduated from the Management Trainee Programme, you'll be offered opportunities in Hang Seng to further progress and grow your career, preparing you to become one of our future leaders.
If you're interested in what we’re offering in the programme, you can click "Apply now" to submit your application. You can also learn more about the programme and each business / function stream below.
Commercial Banking connects entrepreneurial businesses to opportunities through our relationship managers and digital capabilities. You'll rotate across Relationship Management teams that work directly with clients to support and expand their operations.
You can also work in Global Trade teams that offer services and finance for buyers and suppliers, or with our Product Management teams, that develop new, digital services to improve the experience of our customers, and incorporate ESG considerations into our client solutions.
Digital Business Services (DBS) Management Trainee (MT) Programme at Hang Seng Bank offers you the opportunity to groom yourself as a fintech-savvy and change talent within a dynamic financial institution as well as developing an entrepreneurial mindset. You will have myriad opportunities to lead and drive digital and change initiatives that drive and support business value and growth.
Throughout the 3-year programme, you will be exposed to a diverse range of responsibilities, from innovative digital projects to providing high-quality operational support across DBS’ core function units. Beyond gaining technical expertise, the DBS MT Programme also empowers you to spearhead bank-wide transformations. This unique opportunity will allow you to become a true all-rounded talent, shaping the future of Hang Seng Bank.
The DBS division consists of a total of 8 units (including Corporate Services, Operations, Information Technology, Data and Analytics, Transformation, Chief Control Office, Chief Administration Office and Procurement), of which 5 are being introduced below.
The Functional Services MT Programme offers unique broad-based development experience to build core capabilities in one of the two mainstreams, either in Finance or Risk and Compliance. You'll then rotate to areas outside of these mainstreams in functional areas such as Digital Business Services, Audit, middle office in Wealth and Personal Banking and Wholesale Banking.
The Programme prepares you for a strong-focused professional career and opens opportunities across Hang Seng in businesses or functions to suit your interests and skills.
Finance
Risk and Compliance
Global Banking connects large corporations and financial institutions to opportunities through a group of high-level relationship managers and tailored banking solutions. You'll rotate across Relationship Management teams and Product teams during the development programme and learn how to build strong and strategic partnerships with your clients.
You'll also support the driving of various new initiatives in Global Banking, such as new product development.
The Global Markets MT Programme offers you unique development opportunities in Global Markets, working with our product specialists, traders and analysts who provide integrated financial solutions and 24-hour global markets coverage. Our IT infrastructure enables us to deliver quick access to key markets and up-to-date information to customers. You'll learn how we develop tailor-made treasury products to help customers better manage risks in the ever-changing market.
You'll gain the necessary grounding and knowledge in various businesses and functions such as Trading, Market Treasury, Structured Products, Treasury Solutions, etc.
Our Global Markets Chief Operating Office executes change and ensures that key governance mechanisms are in place and potential risks are identified and mitigated with the embedment of the right risk and control culture. The team promotes operational excellence by collaborating with operational and functional teams and promoting a work environment that drives digital and data transformation. It plays a key role in operations and business management support for Global Markets (GM), as well as engages in strategic and financing resource planning.
Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited (HSIL) is the leading index provider for the Hong Kong and mainland China markets. HSIL calculates and manages the Hang Seng Family of Indexes, including the well-known Hang Seng Index and over 2200 real-time and daily indexes. HSIL has always been at the forefront of the market, developing numerous market measures to help investors make their investment decisions.
The HSIL MT programme offers you an exclusive opportunity to gain experience in index solutions research and development, an area that is increasingly becoming a pivotal force in the asset management industry. You’ll join us to offer sophisticated and authentic index solutions with high visibility to facilitate investors worldwide to make informed decisions. You'll also have exposure to different areas, including client management, strategy and planning as well as operations, transformation, and data management.
The Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) MT Programme offers you broad exposure to our retail and private banking business functions You'll rotate among our product development, channel innovation or customer experience teams, to identify opportunities to improve our products, services, and propositions. You'll have the opportunity to gain experience in our Retail Distribution team, providing best-in-class services to our customers.
You'll also work with digital transformation, business risk and control functions, business performance management, or our strategy teams, to deliver strategic projects for business growth. Additionally, you'll be provided with training and workshops, equipping you with the banking, design thinking and professional skills needed to develop you as a future-proof leader.
Gain experience and exposure in sourcing the right products from service providers and developing our own one, and offering them to customers across client segments and channels under different market scenarios, with the opportunity to work with different stakeholders from front-to-back office internally; and top-tier fund managers and issuers externally via various roles:
You have the chance to play Dreamer, Thinker, Warrior and Lover archetypes on WPB Transformation.
At Hang Seng, we offer our Management Trainees a diverse and comprehensive learning curriculum in business, digital and data, technical learning, risk management, compliance and personal leadership development. The curriculum is designed to equip you with the key knowledge needed to perform at your best. You can also curate your own learning journey, with contents aligned to your development needs.
We harness technology to provide an expansive and agile learning platform, tailoring the learning process to your specific needs. We adopt a hybrid approach with interactive virtual learning including the use of virtual reality technology and mobile apps gamified learning, combined with face-to-face classroom training.
One of the most important elements of our development offering is to enable you to future-proof yourself. We offer an agile learning environment for the development of future skills, allowing you to adapt to a fast-changing business, social and technology landscape. Our Future Skills includes Growth Mindset, Creativity, Connectivity and Social Intelligence, Change and Transformation.
You'll gain Future Skills through diverse learning activities, including active engagement with best-in-class enterprises and our strategic partners, and practice action learning in bank projects and dialogues with change leaders, as well as by job shadowing enterprise leaders and board members.
Fintech is shaping the future of banking. You'll be well-equipped to navigate the latest fintech developments through rotations in related fintech areas, such as digital banking, innovation, data analytics and strategy, as well as Regtech. This part of your rotation will not be limited to our bank’s environment; there will be plenty of exciting opportunities to visit and engage with top-notch fintech organisations and local startups, allowing you to stay updated on the latest fintech development, and inspiring you to contribute and help the bank consolidate its position as Hong Kong’s leading digital bank.
Plenty of opportunities will be offered for you to participate in projects helping Hong Kong companies establish themselves and capitalise on cross-boundary business opportunities in mainland China and the Greater Bay Area. Your exposure will be increased by having attachment to our mainland branches and offices, gaining a better understanding of the financial market in China, local compliance and regulatory requirement, and so on.
To facilitate your own network building, you'll be offered opportunities to take part in various external workshops and conferences, enabling you to learn from thought leaders and other professionals, ensuring you are up to date on best practices within our industry.
During each of your attachment, you'll be assigned a mentor who will provide you guidance and coaching. You'll also be assigned a Management Trainee buddy from the same programme stream for additional support.
We will help you attain professional qualifications as required in your chosen business/function stream. Such qualifications may include:
As a Management Trainee, You'll have many opportunities to represent Hang Seng Bank at business events and corporate social responsibility functions, as well as participate in various internal staff activities, offering you the chance to polish your interpersonal and communication skills while building new relationships both within and outside of Hang Seng.
We are looking for the following attributes and qualifications in candidates joining our MT Programme:
Step 1
Online application
Step 2
Online ability tests
Step 3
HR interview
Step 4
MT Assessment Centre and value assessment
Step 5
Final interview
MT Finoland is a market leading initiative enabling us to make use of the metaverse to promote ourself and the Management Trainee Programme to university students. MT Finoland enables students to virtually get a taste of what it's to be like to be as a Hang Seng MT, highlighting the diverse training and career development opportunities, across different departments and functions. Users can explore MT Finoland at their own pace, when it is convenient to them.
Campaign duration:
3 Sep to 30 Nov 2024
Only applications submitted through our online application platform will be processed. Your application will require you to provide the following: personal information, e-mail address, education history (including tertiary and secondary education and academic qualifications attained at secondary and tertiary levels, i.e. transcripts, public examination results), professional qualifications attained, details of extracurricular activities, work experience and language proficiency examination results.
We recruit a mixture of talented graduates from a broad range of disciplines. We welcome applications from university graduates in any discipline. If you are interested in a career with us and can demonstrate the key competencies we are looking for, please submit your application in accordance with our requirements.
Interview and assessment can be conducted virtually, even though you are currently studying abroad, you are strongly encouraged to submit your application and please ensure your contact information is accurate and updated.
Candidates are asked to indicate their preference among different business / function streams. You should therefore take some time to familiarise yourself with the nature and requirements of each stream before making your application.
You can login to our online application system to update your personal and / or application details.
Qualified candidates will usually be notified for assessment within one month upon submission of their online applications completely. You can always check the recruitment status in CareerLink system.
You are advised to be familiarised with not only the Bank’s culture & values, latest developments and the core competencies we are looking for. Besides, you should also keep yourself abreast of the market trends and developments.
