Intern - Commodities (Spring - Jan to Jun 2025)

Job Summary

SGX Spring Internship Programme (Jan to Jun 2025)
 

We are Asia’s leading and trusted securities and derivatives market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets to the highest regulatory standards. We also operate a multi-asset sustainability platform, SGX FIRST or Future in Reshaping Sustainability Together (sgx.com/first).

We are committed to facilitating economic growth in a sustainable manner leveraging our roles as a key player in the ecosystem, a business, regulator and listed company. With climate action as a key priority, we aim to be a leading sustainable and transition financing and trading hub offering trusted, quality, end-to-end products and solutions.

As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, we provide listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. We are the world's most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. In foreign exchange, we are Asia's leading marketplace and most comprehensive service provider for global FX over-the-counter and futures participants. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, we are globally recognised for our risk management and clearing capabilities. 

Be a part of this fast-paced world where your contributions count. SGX offers you the unique experience of gaining insights into the Exchange business and the finance value chain. You will be immersed in the respective specialist functions – at SGX, we believe that our interns are involved in real-time work from Day 1. 

This internship programme is on a full-time basis and runs from Jan to Jun 2025. We invite you to realise your potential with us!

Note: Leave of Absence (LOA) may be required to take on the internship.

Commodities

Brief Overview:
The intern will support the Commodities Product Management team which is one of the key business drivers in SGX. The PM team is responsible for growing the revenue and liquidity of the Commodity derivatives which includes Iron ore, Coal, Freight, Rubber, Dairy, Oil, Petrochemicals and Electricity.  
 

Learning Objectives:
The selected intern will get hands-on experience of the different aspects of derivatives product management in an Exchange and learn about the market structure and mechanics of SGX’s suite of commodity derivatives. 

The intern will be involved in the daily functions of a derivatives product manager and will gain practical knowledge of how an Exchange lists and clears derivative contracts. He/she will also acquire insights into the fundamentals of the commodity markets through helping with market research. Additionally, the intern will be expected to assist with projects such as product launches and marketing events.

Depending on the candidate’s preference, he/she will have a chance to work with quantitative analytics, liquidity measurements, pricing models and/or to be involved with Singapore Iron Ore Week, the premier global iron ore event including marketing, client meetings, etc. Furthermore, from technology stacks, he/she will be able to learn KDB/Q, Java, Groovy as well as C# and relational database programming.
 

Job Description:

• Build and maintain various dashboards to monitor business performance such as volume, revenue, product yields, etc.
• Support, enhance and develop analytics on order book, volume driven liquidity as well as pricing models for different products
• Research and development of quantitative trading ideas and strategies for commodity derivatives products
• Collect and analyse trade data for research reports, news articles and white papers
• Assist with the content, layout and design of marketing materials (presentations, brochures, videos) to drive trading activity
• Organise industry events – this includes workshops, roundtables, seminars, forums and Singapore Iron Ore Week
• Conduct research on peer exchanges and clearing houses to understand their product / service offering with the goal of enhancing our offering
   

Knowledge and Skills requirements:

• Fluency in English (written and spoken) and proficiency in Chinese
• MUST be proficient in MS Office i.e. excel and powerpoint including VBA/Macros
• Good to have any financial quantitative knowledge
• Good to know at least one programming language (for example C, C++, Java, C#, Python, Groovy, Perl), SQL
• Good to have an interest in marketing, client outreach, digital/social media knowledge
• Good interpersonal & communication skills and the willingness and ability to work in a team
• Be able to multitask, be process driven and the ability to think innovatively and independently and enjoy working under pressure and tight timelines