Intern - Commodities (Fall - Jun to Dec 2025)
Job Summary
SGX Fall Internship Programme (June to Dec 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.
Short overview on the Team
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 EV metals.
What the intern can learn during the internship
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 Responsibilities- 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
- 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
- Fast and smart learner especially programming languages
- Highly conscious of productivity
- Possess great intellectual curiosity
- Eagerness to learn and explore
- Great team player
- Flexibility in handling different workstreams
- Detail oriented