# Graduate Trainee

**Company**: Intl Wealth & Premier Banking
**Location**: Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Some careers open more doors than others. If you’re looking for a role that builds strong foundations in operations, business planning, sustainability and stakeholder coordination, join HSBC and build a future rich with potential.

This placement offers hands-on exposure to how an Amanah business operates across day-to-day operations, strategic planning, sustainability initiatives and management reporting. You’ll support operational coordination, data analysis, governance activities and continuous improvement while developing practical skills for a wide range of banking and financial-services careers.

## Key responsibilities

### Operations and business support

- Support the coordination and administration of day-to-day Amanah operational activities.

- Maintain accurate trackers, workflow records, operational calendars and action logs.

- Coordinate with internal teams to follow up on deliverables, outstanding actions and operational requirements.

- Review information and documentation for completeness, accuracy and consistency.

- Identify risks, exceptions, blockers or delays early and escalate them appropriately.

- Maintain organised records of work completed, decisions made and follow-up actions.

### Planning and performance management

- Support business planning, periodic reviews and the tracking of strategic or operational priorities.

- Assist with the preparation of management updates, presentations, briefing papers and meeting materials.

- Produce regular reports covering operational activity, business priorities, key performance indicators, outstanding actions and emerging issues.

- Support basic data analysis to identify trends, recurring issues and areas for improvement.

- Highlight upcoming deadlines, overdue actions and potential delivery risks.

- Help translate operational and business information into concise updates for management review.

### Sustainability advisory support

- Support the coordination of sustainability-related initiatives, workstreams and internal engagements within Amanah.

- Assist with information gathering, data collation and preparation of sustainability-related materials.

- Maintain records of sustainability activities, commitments, milestones and follow-up actions.

- Support research into relevant sustainability themes, business practices and stakeholder expectations, where required.

- Help prepare presentations, reports, briefing notes and communications for internal stakeholders.

- Escalate questions, data gaps or issues relating to sustainability activities to the appropriate team or manager.

### Stakeholder and team engagement

- Support responses to routine enquiries from internal stakeholders, business teams and management.

- Coordinate information requests across Operations, Amanah, Sustainability, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Technology and other relevant teams.

- Prepare clear updates on project progress, operational issues, sustainability activities and outstanding requirements.

- Support the preparation of meeting agendas, minutes, action logs and follow-up communications.

- Maintain professional communication and ensure agreed actions are tracked through to resolution.

- Work collaboratively with colleagues across functions and locations.

### Governance, controls and process improvement

- Support the maintenance of process documentation, procedures and operational records.

- Assist with control checks, data-quality reviews and exception monitoring, where applicable.

- Maintain appropriate records and audit trails for operational, planning and sustainability activities.

- Follow applicable risk, compliance, data-handling and information-security requirements.

- Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, documentation and stakeholder communication.

- Support the documentation of lessons learned, recurring issues and agreed improvements.

## Requirements

- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline; CGPA of 3.0 or above, or at least second-class upper.

- Fluent in English, with excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

- Ability to analyse data and information and interpret findings for business decisions.

- Strong attention to detail and the ability to follow structured processes accurately.

- Resourceful, organised and able to manage multiple priorities.

- Good planning, communication and problem-solving skills.

- Interest in operations, business planning, sustainability, advisory services, Islamic finance or banking is advantageous.

- Ambitious, motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced financial-services environment.

- Energetic, enthusiastic and adaptable.

- A collaborative team player with the potential to demonstrate leadership.

- Computer literate and able to work independently.

## Key learning opportunities

You’ll gain:

- Practical understanding of how an Amanah business operates within a global bank.

- Exposure to business operations, planning cycles, management reporting and performance tracking.

- Experience coordinating work across Operations, Amanah, Sustainability, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Technology and other teams.

- Hands-on experience in data handling, reporting and basic business analysis.

- Exposure to sustainability-related initiatives, information gathering and advisory support.

- Stronger business communication skills, including concise updates, professional correspondence and stakeholder engagement.

- Greater awareness of governance, controls, risk management and documentation standards.

- Experience identifying exceptions, resolving issues and escalating matters appropriately.

- Confidence managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment.

- A foundation for future careers in operations, business planning, sustainability, advisory, Islamic finance, governance, programme management or broader banking functions.

## Skills

### Required
- data analysis
- communication
- problem-solving
- planning
- organisational

### Nice to have
- operations
- business planning
- sustainability
- advisory services
- Islamic finance
- banking

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