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Management Trainee Programme

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.

Programme structure

About

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 10 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.

Business / functional streams

What to expect

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.

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Corporate Wealth and Sales Management
  • Learn how to provide professional advice to corporate customers on insurance and investment products, areas of expertise crucial to success in the competitive CMB segment
Global Payments Solutions
  • Understand product development of Global Payments Solutions
  • Understand the management and commercialisation of the product cycle
Global Trade Solutions
  • Acquire an overview of Global Trade Solutions products and daily activities, critical in providing quality lending services to customers
Relationship Management
  • Gain valuable connections and experience by managing a portfolio of commercial customers
  • Deepen your knowledge of various industries and hone your skills in financial analysis
Wholesale Client Coverage
  • Understand the origination and structuring of Syndicated/Structured Finance transactions
  • Acquire a basic understanding of commercial real estate loans and advances
  • Understand the structuring of sustainable finance deals
Wholesale Chief Operating Officer’s Office
  • Understand the operational flow between the Wholesale Chief Operating Officer’s Office and other departments within CMB, as well as with Group
  • Gain exposure to Fintech and data analytics within the context of commercial banking
What to expect

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.

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Information Technology
  • Learn the latest financial technologies and build best-in-class IT solutions and products for our customers
  • Embrace Fintech adoption and enable innovation strategy execution in pioneering new ideas and capabilities through an experimental approach
Operations
  • Be an “End-to-end Solution Maker” to drive the change process in streamlining, simplifying and improving the way we serve customers
  • Become a digital advocate by working closely with businesses and technology experts on evolving our customer services in the digital era and building digitalization into the Bank’s DNA to delight customers
Data and Analytics Office
  • Gain a thorough understanding of data management and control, data analytics and management information in supporting bank’s Data Strategy and Principles
  • Build the capability to improve client experience and unlock business opportunities, leverage our customer-centric strategy, while protecting bank and customer data
Corporate Services
  • Acquire professional knowledge in property and real estate management, from strategic planning to operational management
  • Participate in strategic programmes covering all aspects of real estate portfolio and project activities
Transformation
  • Develop business consulting capabilities to provide innovative ideas and customer centric solutions to assist stakeholders in fulfilling transformation needs
  • Acquire programme and project management skills needed to manage complex strategic programmes with an agile approach
  • Put strategy into action as a change agent accelerating the bank’s digitalisation process, with the goal of becoming a fully-fledged "next generation" bank
  • Develop business consulting capabilities to provide innovative ideas and customer centric solutions to assist stakeholders in fulfilling transformation needs
What to expect

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.

Job attachment (Mainstream)

Finance

Asset Liability and Capital Management
  • Assist in preparing materials for the Bank’s Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO)
  • Work with businesses in managing liquidity and IRRBB risks
  • Take part in the preparation of risk-weighted asset calculations for capital reporting
  • Assist in the capital planning and forecast cycle
Finance Strategy and Execution
  • Support the HASE’s finance functions for implementing the operational risk and control management framework according to HSBC Group guidance
  • Liaise with Operational Risk and provide support and guidance to various Finance teams to ensure that appropriate operational risk and control identification and assessment is undertaken for Finance function in HK and oversea sites
  • Assist in the production of risk and control reports with regard to the advised committee meeting schedules to facilitate management for review and decision making
Financial Reporting
  • Prepare the Group’s consolidated financial reports including statutory financial statements and published materials relating to interim and final results announcements
  • Prepare HKMA/PRA prudential returns and other reports required by other regulators
  • Prepare financial and regulatory related information to senior management, the Board and various committees
  • Ensure the financial compliance with the relevant regulatory requirements of the Banking Ordinance and HKMA SPMs and guidelines. Also perform accounting and ledger control functions
Financial Reporting Risk
  • Provide advice and guidance to support the risk policy for managing Financial Reporting Risk. Perform review and challenge to issues, actions and incidents reported by 1st line businesses and functions. Oversee remediation and closure of issues
  • Assist in accounting standards implementation, new product due diligence and provide accounting opinion to businesses
  • Ensure compliance in Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) in the Bank, including SOX deficiencies reporting and annual certification
  • Conduct periodic assurance reviews within and outside Finance function to ensure adequate controls are in place to mitigate Financial Reporting Risk, also to help improve the effectiveness of the operations within Finance function
Insurance Business Finance
  • Participate in finance and accounting related activities of the insurance operations under the Bank, including financial control, regulatory reporting, forecast & planning, product development & projects and ALCM/capital management
  • Interact with a wide diversity of business or functional departments such as the Actuarial, Investment, Operation and Business Departments
  • Gain an understanding on the Insurance Business Finance Department and the insurance industry specific knowledge
  • Learn the dynamics of how insurance operations' financial results are being incorporated into the Bank-wide bigger picture
Product Control
  • Support the daily and monthly profit/loss and other production tasks related to the Bank's Markets and Securities Service and Markets Treasury to gain knowledge in market products
  • Gain knowledge and practice in performing different controls activities to manage risk, and in understanding the importance of non-financial risk
  • Involve in other ad hoc projects and new product due diligence and have exposure in user acceptance testing for system implementation
Strategic Planning and Stress Testing
  • To understand how management accounting concepts are applied to the Bank's functions, and how your contribution to an accurate and timely management information report could make a difference in senior management's decision on the overall business
  • To develop valuable business analytic skills and understand keys to managing balance sheet risks, allocating resources as well as participate in budgetary preparation and control process
  • To support the identification of risks and opportunities by running financial forecast and stress testing exercises and closely collaborate with different stakeholders within the bank
  • To gain exposure in learning about the Bank's valuation in resolution (VIR) process which involves stress testing, financial projection, and the preparation of the intra-month balance sheet, liquidity forecast as well as capital plan
Wealth and Personal Banking Business Finance
  • Collaborate with WPB business units (including Retail Banking and Wealth Management Businesses) to monitor the implementation of the financial plans
  • Prepare management information to facilitate monitoring and analysis of business performance
  • Work with internal stakeholders across WPB to track and streamline current sales data collection process
  • Support creating concise communication materials and present findings to management
Wholesale Business Finance
  • Prepare timely and accurate management reports, analyze business trend and customer profitability
  • Conduct cost control to ensure expenses and FTEs are within budget and to support business initiatives
  • Collaborate with relevant parties including IT and Operation to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial booking
  • Perform various analysis on business operating results and handle enquiries from Relationship Managers
  • Participate in sales MI projects

Risk and Compliance

Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) Risk
  • Participate in WPB Risk team's Risk Steward and Risk Advisor roles to set the risk appetite for retail lending, as well as monitor the portfolio of WPB products to inform and refine credit policies, procedures and models, via a wide range of risk management governance frameworks and controls
  • Opportunities to understand the model development, monitoring, regulatory reporting, controls and governance process and get to know the latest data analytics solution delivery
Wholesale Credit Risk Management (WCRM)
  • Learn the end-to-end Wholesale Credit Risk Management operating model, as an independent second line of defence. WCRM covers a wide range of aspects: defining risk appetite statement/threshold, establishing credit policies, designing and monitoring controls, managing the end-to-end credit journey from credit approvals, and special credit management, as well as facilitating regulatory monitoring and decision making through analytics
  • Participate in and learn from our subject matter experts on credit underwriting, risk control, portfolio review, model analytics and specialised credit handling
Financial Crime
  • Undertake the duty of Financial Crime Compliance Subject Matter Expert Advisory and/or conduct Financial Crime Risk investigations in a professional and efficient manner, so that the bank’s and regulatory standards are fulfilled
  • Keep abreast of new developments and intelligence associated with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT), Fraud, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Tax Evasion, as well as Sanctions
Regulatory Compliance
  • Form good partnerships with different business streams and functions to provide professional advice in regulatory compliance matters
  • Have opportunities to interact with regulators in fulfilling regulatory demands
Compliance Assurance
  • Compliance Assurance (CA) sits within the second line of defence (2LoD) and provides independent assurance services, to assist the bank in the timely identification, evaluation, and mitigation of regulatory and financial crime risks
  • Work closely with Chief Risk and Compliance Officers and other Group Compliance Capabilities to deliver time-sensitive independent insight on the management of regulatory, conduct, financial crime and reputational risks, mainly through the assessment of associated controls, to provide assurance to stakeholders of the effectiveness of the Group’s financial crime and regulatory risk management
What to expect

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.

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Corporate Digital
  • Gain insight into commercialisation of digital initiatives and digital journeys, building of AI tools and advanced analytics to achieve excellent customer experience, growing and protecting the bank at the same time
Corporate Wealth and Sales Management
  • Learn how to provide professional advice to corporate customers on wealth management products, and related internal control functions
Debt Capital Markets Origination (DCMO)
  • Acquire basic knowledge of the bond market
  • Understand Hang Seng DCMO business model and strategic focuses
Global Banking / Financial Institutions Group Relationship Management
  • Acquire experience in providing a broad spectrum of financing solutions to large corporations and financial institutions
  • Gain exposure to a comprehensive range of products and services, including bilateral and syndication loans, project financing, property development financing, property investment loans, working capital financing, trade financing, cash management and treasury products
  • Learn from experienced and knowledgeable professionals to understand the specific requirements of our customers and how to provide tailor-made financial packages in their best interests
Global Banking Bond Management
  • Gain insight into bond portfolio investment and related regulatory and compliance requirements
Global Payments Solutions
  • Understand the management and commercialisation of the product cycle
Global Trade Solutions
  • Acquire an overview of Global Trade and Receivable Finance products and its servicing model
Wholesale Client Coverage
  • Understand the origination and structuring of Syndicated/Structured Finance transactions
  • Acquire a basic understanding on commercial real estate loans and advances
  • Understand the structuring of sustainable finance deals
Treasury Solutions
  • Collaborate with various internal stakeholders, such as Relationship Managers and other internal departments, to identify customers’ hedging needs and provide appropriate treasury products and solutions
Wholesale Chief Operating Officer’s Office (WCOO)
  • Understand the operational flow between the Wholesale Chief Operating Officer’s Office and other departments within Global Banking as well as with Group
  • Gain exposure to Fintech and data analytics within the context of commercial banking
Global Markets – Dealing
What to expect

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.

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Markets Treasury
  • Understand the roles and responsibilities of the Markets Treasury team in Hang Seng
  • Gain knowledge on how interest rate, liquidity and funding risks are managed
Treasury Solution
  • Collaborate with various internal stakeholders such as Relationship Managers, branches and other internal departments, to identify customers’ hedging needs and provide appropriate treasury products and solutions
Trading
  • Understand the purpose, structure, and framework of departments under Trading, such as Interest Rate Trading, Repo Trading, Foreign Exchange and Options Trading
  • Turn theory into practice, getting hands-on experience in trading, hedging activities and strategy formulation, spanning various asset classes in different markets around the globe
Structured Products
  • Get involved in structuring and developing FX/Equity/Interest Rate-linked products
  • Understand the dynamics and competitive landscape of structured products as investment and hedging solutions to various client segments, including Wealth and Personal Banking, Commercial Banking and Global Banking clients
Global Markets – Data, Fintech, Business Management and Planning
What to expect

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.

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Data and Planning
  • Support data change initiatives and delivery of business analytics use cases.  Understand data privacy and data quality control
  • Get involved in strategic and financial resources planning, strategy tracking and management reporting
Transformation and Business Management
  • Participate in the Fintech development in support of GM’s needs. Get involved in transformation programmes and projects for GM
  • Get involved in supporting the desk’s business initiatives, drive changes for business growth and compliance with different requirements
Non-Financial Risk and Regulatory Change
  • Understand the control and risk oversight in fulfilling the internal group and external regulatory requirements
  • Get involved in risk assessment and control testing, regulatory impact assessment and regulations tracking
GM Operations
  • Gain hands-on experience in trade matching, stock, cash, ledger and intersystem reconciliations. Understand key controls imposed in day-to-day operations
  • Participate in post-trade monitoring on trade capture, processing, settlement and reconciliations
What to expect

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.

Job attachment
Index Research
  • Maintain the leading position of existing flagship indexes, e.g. HSI, HSCEI, HSTECH etc.
  • Nurture the usage of Hang Seng Family of Indexes and create new indexes to meet market demand
  • Ensure proper governance is in place for the index development / management process
  • Review the index methodologies to keep pace with the market development
Product Development
  • Develop new index solutions and data and analytics products to facilitate investors to make informed decisions, and create new revenue streams for HSIL
  • Formulate business plans and project management plans to implement new business initiatives
  • Conduct market research to keep abreast of key market and competitor intelligence
Client Management
  • Connect with diverse range of clients, including asset owners, asset managers, investment banks, broker dealers and other financial institutions to promote the use of Hang Seng Family of Indexes for investment funds and structured products creation, asset allocation, risk management and benchmarking purposes
  • Achieve business targets through cross-selling to existing customers or acquisition of new customers
  • Support the formulation and implementation of the overall sales strategy
Strategy
  • Participate in the preparation of HSIL strategic plan
  • Provide support to facilitate the implementation of business strategies
  • Explore external partnership opportunities
Other business attachment
  • You'll have the opportunity to attach to other businesses and functions in Hang Seng to gain a holistic exposure to Hang Seng’s bank-wide operations. Such attachments may include:
    • Hang Seng Investment Management
    • Strategy Planning and Corporate Development
    • Wealth and Personal Banking
    • Commercial Banking
    • Global Banking
    • Finance
    • Audit
    • Hang Seng Bank (China) Limited and other subsidiaries
What to expect

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.

Job attachment
Asset Management
  • Gain multi-faceted experience at Hong Kong’s No. 1 ETF manager in terms of assets under management, with the opportunity to work with different front-to-back office stakeholders in the asset management business
  • Gain exposure to investment market research, fund product development and life cycle management
  • Opportunity to participate in business and market expansion initiatives, formulating business and branding strategies as well as drive sustainability development
Branch Network
  • Gain hands-on and in-depth retail banking experience by connecting with the diverse range of retail customers at one of our branches
  • Learn to create great customer experiences, achieve business growth, manage risk control and digital transformation in a dynamic environment
Credit and Financial Crime Risk Control
  • Implement various control frameworks, including credit approval and collections, customer due diligence and financial crime risk management programmes
Chief of Staff
  • Drive the execution of the retail bank’s strategy and initiatives
  • Track the overall business performance and cost to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Drive people engagement and support the bank’s talent management strategies
  • Design and implement fraud and business risk management framework
Customer Propositions and Management
  • Design and strengthen value propositions for our strategic core segments, including affluent, emerging affluent, young segments and mainland China customers, to maximise portfolio profitability
  • Gain valuable experience in driving customer proposition strategies, from acquisitions, activation, relationship, and anti-attrition, with different product teams and channels
  • Participate in the development of partnerships, customer engagement events and propositions enhancement initiatives aimed at strengthening customer loyalty
  • Understand customer insights and translate into actions with exposure to customer journey enhancements, process improvements and communications, and campaign launch to cultivate customer centricity culture
Data, Analytics and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Drive responsible, relevant, and impactful AI development and application to fuel business growth and optimise customer experience
  • Commercialise and augment WPB data with market data to distil business insights and foster customer-oriented actions via data visualisation and machine learning
  • Drive CRM activities and deliver hyper-personalised customer experiences through Hang Seng’s modern messaging platform powered by data and analytics
  • Improve external and internal fraud / financial crime / sales conduct management covering detection, investigation, and prevention, leveraging big data and advanced analytics
Digital Banking
  • Participate in transforming digital platforms for improved user experience market best-practices, assisted by the latest in technology and digital analytics
  • Opportunity to work in projects and initiatives focused on digital journey enhancement, innovative fintech, digital marketing, or partnership with other companies, all of which are increasingly important drivers of WPB’s revenue, cost saving and customer satisfactio
Investments and Wealth Solutions

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:

  • Participate in the product development life cycle to generate product ideas, source products from service providers, formulate product propositions and conduct product due diligence. Products ranged from investment funds, structured products, fixed income instruments, certificates of deposit to securities services, margin trading services and investment financing services
  • Support the wealth insights and investment commentary development to share market views, investment strategies and portfolio ideas
  • Formulate sales & distribution strategies across channels for the above-mentioned investment products and services; design financial planning processes and lead key cross-product, tech-enabled value propositions
  • Conduct platform development and management, ensure we operate in accordance with the Group and regulatory product governance requirement, non-financial risk framework, compliance and conduct responsibilities
Insurance
  • Gain exposure to the insurance product development cycle, including the new product development, distribution strategies and customer lifecycle management
  • Identify business opportunities by formulating distribution and commercialisation strategies to meet the changing needs of customers in a dynamic environment
  • Equip all-rounded insurance knowledge by participating in key business initiatives and the channel management of core distribution channels, including retail insurance, commercial insurance, digital insurance and partnerships
Liabilities & Secured Lending
  • Acquire a basic understanding of deposits, foreign exchange, mortgages, secured overdrafts, premiums and wealth financing
  • Assist in the design of new products / programmes, digital initiatives and projects such as Green Mortgage and other digital / business initiatives
  • Assist in the preparation of strategy papers, business proposals and reports for presentation to senior management
Private Banking
  • Gain valuable experience in building close relationships with and providing professional advice and premium services to our high-net worth customers
  • Equip you with the skills and mindset needed for professional risk and project management
Unsecured Lending and Payment
  • Gain exposure to the bank’s credit card, personal loans and payment products
  • Assist in the implementation of business plans, covering customer acquisition, servicing and portfolio management
  • Participate in development of value propositions and campaigns to achieve sustainable business growth
  • Prepare competitive analysis and generate customer insights to drive customer journey enhancements and process improvements
WPB Transformation and Management

You have the chance to play Dreamer, Thinker, Warrior and Lover archetypes on WPB Transformation.

  • Transform creative ideas and strategy from Business into new solutions that deliver value for our customers and our business
  • Drive business growth, improve efficiency, encourage cross-functional collaboration, improve ways of working and problem-solving across WPB
  • Define and design end-to-end customer journey through pain point diagnosis and process mapping. Planning and executing agile project management
  • Steer technology investment pitching and prioritisation, resources planning, risk and dependency management etc.

Development offering

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:

  • Chartered Financial Analyst
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Certified Financial Planner
  • Certified Financial Risk Manager
  • Certified Banker
  • Certified International Investment Analyst
  • Project Management Professional
  • Society of Actuaries
  • Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA)
  • Fellow, Life Management Institute – Life Office Management Association (FLMI – LOMA)

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.

Requirements

We are looking for the following attributes and qualifications in candidates joining our MT Programme:

  • Innovative Mindset - Having forward thinking, being creative and open to testing;
  • Growth Mindset - Having the mindset of things can be improved through effort, learning, and persistence. Positive to challenges, adapt and evolve from failures;
  • Communicating with Impact - Communicating ideas confidently and competently in both written and verbal format. Adopt and adjust the approaches for different audience and purpose;
  • Management Skills - Competencies to better lead, motivate, organize, schedule, plan, budget, and problem-solve;
  • Exhibit integrity, empathetic and inclusive behaviours, acting with shared purpose, speaking up taking accountability and setting high standards;
  • Excellent written and spoken English and Chinese proficiency;
  • Bachelor’s degree (Second Honours) or above; with no more than 3 years of work experience;
  • Permanent resident of Hong Kong or holder of a valid Hong Kong work visa e.g IANG / Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS)

Selection procedure

  1. Step 1

    Online application

  2. Step 2

    Online ability tests

  3. Step 3

    HR interview

  4. Step 4

    MT Assessment Centre and value assessment

  5. Step 5

    Final interview

Commercial Banking

Henry Yuen, 2022 MT Cohort

Christy Lau, 2016 MT Cohort

Digital Business Services

Cindy Lam, 2021 MT Cohort

Functional Services – Finance

Teresa Chan, 2019 MT Cohort

Tako Choi, 2011 MT Cohort

Functional Services - Risk and Compliance

Chak Lam Zheng, 2022 MT Cohort

Functional Services - Risk and Compliance

Roc Lui, 2022 MT Cohort

Winnie Ng, 2022 MT Cohort

Global Banking

Tiffany Or, 2021 MT Cohort

Kenson Chan, 2016 MT Cohort

Global Markets

Anson Leung, 2019 MT Cohort

Hang Seng Indexes

Hunk Lee, 2022 MT Cohort

Wealth and Personal Banking

Jason Fan, 2021 MT Cohort

Marca Ma, 2015 MT Cohort

Metaverse x MT Programme

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

Management Trainee Programme Frequently asked questions

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.

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