Intern - Exchange Platform (Spring - Jan to Jun 2025)

Job Summary

SGX Spring Internship Programme (Jan - Jun 2025, Full-Time only)

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services. With about 40% of listed companies and 90% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange.

Do you have what it takes to be at the heart of the financial industry?

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.

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

Data services - Platform Analytics

Brief Overview:
In Platform Analytics team, we leverage quantitative skills to derive analytical data insights for key decision making on market development. 

Learning Objectives:
Key takeaways from the internship:
•    Develop a good understanding of equities and equity derivatives exchange business
•    The ins and outs of equities products and their relevance to capital markets
•    The dynamics of trade activities performed by various market participants 
•    Relate academic knowledge in real world capital markets

Job Description:
•    Leverage proprietary or thirty-party data to analyse order activity and trade flow patterns
•    Visualize data to provide key statistics for market pulse monitoring
•    Use analytics and modelling methodologies to facilitate product and market designs
•    Liaise with stakeholders and manage recourses across units to implement a data project
•    Promote good data analytics practices - robust documentation and knowledge sharing

Knowledge and Skills requirements:
Technical
•    Passion in data analytics
•    Solid programming skills in Python and SQL 
•    Visualisation experience in Tableau
•    Knowledge of data structure and database

Business
•    Keen interest in financial market
•    A responsible and willing learner 
•    Commitment of 6-12-month fulltime internship
 

Data Services – Market Data

Brief Overview:
Market Data team is within Data Services function. The selected intern will be part of will be tasked with different assignments to provide the intern an opportunity to broaden his/her learning different aspects of the Exchange business and more specifically in the market data domain.  This internship will provide learnings in business processes but will also include insights to product development and delivery cycle, sales and account management via proactive support of the team.

The following is the job profile and areas of focus for this internship:
•    Business process improvement
-    Revamp / organize / housekeep client records
-    Review and recommend a more efficient and transparent process of management reporting of business updates e.g. through creation of dashboards
-    To collate, reconcile and create a database of SGX’s subscription to vendor services
-    Research and benchmarking of market data services and products
-    Any other tasks related to business process improvements
•    Support of sales and account management
-    Set up of client records 
-    Bring a fresh perspective to marketing collaterals 
-    Support to organize events
-    Any other tasks related to the support of sales and account management activities
•    Product development and delivery 
-    Research and benchmarking of market data services and products
-    Any other tasks related to the support of sales and account management activities

Knowledge and Skill Requirements
-    Good command of English (Mandarin would be a much added bonus)
-    Strong communication and analytical skills
-    Proficient in MS Office applications
-    Basic background in programming e.g. python
-    Creative but also detail and process oriented