HSBC Strategy and Transformation Summer Internship – Hong Kong

Whether you’re in your penultimate or final year of your undergraduate or postgraduate studies, we offer a wide range of exciting opportunities for you to start your career with HSBC.

For: Penultimate year undergraduates
Duration: 10 weeks
Areas: Commercial Banking
Applications close: 30 November 2023
Start date: June 2024 onwards

What you’ll do

• You’ll join one of our teams in Strategic Transformation, Digital Change, Customer Experience, Business Process Reengineering, Innovation, or one of the core departments of the Chief Operating Office like Sustainability, Regulatory Control, or Trade Transformation.
• You’ll be assigned a project to manage on your own or with other interns. Your project may be to develop a social media strategy for the department, investigating ways to improve a process, or conducting research to better position a product. This will be your opportunity to showcase what you’ve learned during the internship and will form part of your assessment.
• You’ll collaborate with senior leaders and colleagues to contribute to real business challenges and activities.
• You’ll apply your analytical skills across a variety of situations to understand root cause analysis for business problems, define business outcomes and how to achieve them, as well as drive key change initiatives.

Those who excel will be considered for our Strategy and Transformation Graduate Programme, where you will have the opportunity to build an international network and collaborate with clients in developed and developing markets.

Who you are

• You like to think analytically and solve problems while working Agile.
• Developing relationships, collaborating, and networking are the ways you get things done and deliver meaningful change.
• New challenges drive you to explore ideas that lead to solutions.
• When situations change you adapt quickly and explore ideas which lead to the solutions that new challenges present.

What you’ll learn

• You’ll learn about our business, culture and how we operate while being a member of a supportive team that will help you develop analytical skills in various fields.
• You’ll have full access to our HSBC University and can gain insight into topics such as Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Cloud, Python, and Agile.
• You’ll have unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Fit for Banking modules, in addition to bespoke development pathways on Degreed.
• You’ll have plenty of opportunities for continuous learning and people to support you during your time with us so that you're well prepared for your future. Read more about the support you’ll get.

Requirements

• Available to work full time for 10 weeks commencing June 2024;
• You will have obtained or will be working towards a 3.2/4.0 or 4.0/5.0 cumulative GPA or the equivalent of a 2.1 from a recognised University (as appears on your official University transcript or degree certificate);
• Be fluent in English, however knowledge of Mandarin and/or Cantonese would be an advantage;
• With legal rights to work in Hong Kong is preferred.

Please note that you can only make one application each recruitment cycle. Candidates should make an informed decision before applying by reviewing the different business areas and location sections on our website.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we recruit on a rolling basis and may close applications before the advertised date if all vacancies are filled.