2024 APAC Long Internship – Global Markets – AMM Strategists – Hong Kong

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

•    BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
•    BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
•    Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
•    BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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More information 
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes

Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year

2024 APAC Long Internship – Global Markets – AMM Strategists – Hong Kong

Our 6-month internship programme will provide you with training and dedicated support as you develop an in-depth knowledge of specific areas of the banking sector. During your time with us you will shadow our teams of industry leading specialists which will give you close exposure to the business. Most importantly you will gain an understanding of your own skills and the future direction you wish to take.

For:    Third or penultimate year undergraduates in any disciplines from a recognized university
Duration:    6 months
Start date:    January – June 2024

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

Who can apply?
To be considered for the placement, you will:

• Apply as a third or penultimate year undergraduate in any discipline; 
• On track for a GPA of 3.3 out of 4.0 or above (or equivalent) in any discipline; 
• Be available to work as full time from January to June 2024; 
• Have to be fluent in spoken and written English; and 

What you will do?

• Proactively manage the production platform by: 
  – leveraging software engineering to eliminate operational work via automation 
  – optimizing system architecture to maintain operational efficiency 
  – conducting thorough but blameless post-mortems to help guide the evolution of the platform
• Develop and maintain an expansive library of automatons and alpha models; monitoring and production tools used in the trading platform
• Develop and maintain the simulation tools and back testing environment used to test and validate strategies 
• Contribute to the enforcement of adequate risk filters for each automaton to prevent abnormal behaviour
• Organize and monitor the orderly production of automatons during trading hours.
• Monitor, investigate, and improve performances of trading strategies.
• Contribute to the research and design of optimal setup for each set of strategies.
• Coordinate and test infrastructure changes, as implemented by the Group IT and Production teams

Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related discipline required 
• Keen interest in software development using C++ 
• Familiarity with Python/Scripting language 
• Strong interest in real-time and multi-threaded programming / network programming 
• Takes initiative and is results driven 
• Strong decision making and analytical skills 
• Ability to manage change and complexity with confidence 
• Strong team player 
• Client focused and commercial thinking 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
• Prior related internship within the banking industry is an advantage