2025 APAC Long Internship (Jan – Jun) – Securities Services – Hong Kong

Employment contract:

Internship

Location:

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Job/mission:

FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Reference:

12359488

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned
international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860.
Currently with over 20,000 employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas
provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and
service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of
financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth
management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer
financing through strategic partnerships. 

As an Alternatives Investor Client Line intern, you will:

 

  • Assist to implement business plan in line with regional AI model;
  • Provide support to Business Development and Alternatives Management in the implementation of the new target operating model;
  • Support and contribute to the Product Managers, Regional Head of Private Capital and Head of APAC AI Client Line in preparing for services, marketing effort, including sales pitch books, marketing material, presentations and event preparations;
  • Provide assistance on the preparation for engagements with Regional and Global management committee meetings;
  • Follow BNPP Product procedures, guidelines, and policies;
  • Develop expertise in BNPP products and services;
  • Work closely with our product owners to create strategies to increase adoption and improve product alignment;
  • Work closely with Product to detect trends and build training;
  • Acts as focal point/liaison for Product team inquiries and issues; and take appropriate action to respond or correct.

 

As a CAO intern, you will:

 

Provide business support to the CAO office on Organization and Governance topics, including coordination of in/outsourcing arrangement, procurement contracts arrangements, expenses payments, other general corporate governance activities as well as provide business support in respect of transversal projects.

 

Outsourcing / Insourcing Governance:

  • Assisting co-ordination of outsourcing and insourcing arrangements, including management of authorized delegations, update and monitor Service Level Agreements; ensuring outsourced process owners follow the outsourcing procedures diligently, respecting the ongoing monitoring requirements.
  • Ensuring and maintaining records of outsourced / insourced activities including Service Level Agreements and other supporting documents (in shared folders, SharePoint, 360 Arrangement, ARGOS V2 etc.).
  • Conducting and coordinating the 1LoD and 2LoD Outsourcing controls (GCL).

 

Monitoring of Procurement activities and Vendor Contracts:

  • Ensuring all required documents for each procurement are received and properly recorded.
  • Ensuring a clear mapping of all vendor contracts and that such contracts and supporting documents are properly stored (in shared folders, ARIBA etc…)
  • Assisting vault management (register of vault key/pin, pin updates etc.)

 

Expense Monitoring

  • Providing administrative support relating to invoice payments
  • Implementation of a proper control framework for expenses (direct and indirect), including:
    1. monitoring of year-to-date expenses & intercompany recharges against budgets & other agreed amounts,
    2. ensuring such payments are approved by the appropriate business partners.

 

General Corporate Governance & Administration:

  • Maintaining up-to-date SharePoint sites to ensure information and supporting documents for the responsible matters are accessible and retrievable by business managers.
  • Involvement in review and implementation of various transversal procedures (e.g. Letter of Undertaking etc.…)
  • Other projects and support to the CAO office.

 

As a Client Delivery intern, you will:

The intern will be integrated within the Hong Kong Client Delivery Team of Securities Services and

will be supporting a variety of tasks, including but not limited to:

  1. Support for COO / Head of Client Delivery
  • Supporting the head of Client Delivery with their responsibilities (e.g. presentation preparation, headcount analysis, meeting arrangements etc.)
  1. Alternatives & Fund Services Operations.
  • Contributing to the onboarding process for new business
    1. Assisting with the set-up of report schedulers, pricing matrix, fund facts sheet based on fund prospectus etc.
  • Service level agreement updates
    1. Co-ordinating the update of client service level agreements, working together with operation team leads and the client services team.
  • Projects 
    1. Running and participating to efficiency or organisational projects, new system roll-out, specifically in the Hedge Funds Investor Services department

  

As a Client Development intern, you will:

  • Work closely with Sales support for preparation of new and existing sales client due diligence slides etc.
  • Partner Sales and Relationship Managers in client facing meetings, follow ups, reports
  • Responsible for assisting the local Sales and RM team:
    1. deals and pipeline updates and reporting using Client Vision
    2. logistics for internal and external meetings/ presentations and RFPs
    3. manage invitations and responses for client events liaising with Global Markets and senior bankers
    4. manage distribution of mass client communications and marketing materials
  • Support regional forums/ meetings with stakeholders (e.g. Client Development meetings) – including preparation of decks and liaison with offshore BP2S offices.
  • Support Relationship Managers in completing client onboarding and recertification (KYC) due diligence; as well as billing setup and prioritize with invoicing centre
  • Assist Sales and Relationship Managers in managing legal documents execution including completion of signature request form.
  • Responsible for the seamless delivery of Client Development governance controls oversight and controls related projects, support and participate in formulating key strategic client account plans, etc
  • Drive and facilitate business acceptance committee (BAC) approval meetings including quality control of BAC forms, minutes and all related documents for BAC requests for Singapore as booking centre supporting all regional buying locations in Asia including HK, Japan, China and Korea. This includes liaising and coordinating with the Sales / Relationship Managers in North and South Asia.
  • Ad hoc tasks on operational issues and data reconciliation from the Central team

 

As a Client Line intern, you will:

Financial Intermediaries & Corporates (FI&C) Client line, acts as a central actor in the provision of Local

Custody, Global Custody and Cash Management and Treasury solutions for the Securities Services client

base with BNP Paribas. 

Purpose of this position is to provide integral central support to the Client Lines FI&C team;

  • FI&C activities in the region
    1. Key support for regional Heads of FI&C Client Line and APAC Heads of Custody & Clearing Product
    2. Monitoring and reporting of profitability to regional stakeholders
    3. Analytical analysis and reporting of underlying client activity
    4. Support to local product manages in pricing new and existing client activity
  • Assist the development of the product franchise
    1. Help the regional heads in delivering key priorities
    2. Generate ideas to improve our product offer
    3. Assist in ensuring that regional product needs and regulatory needs are well taken into account
    4. in the product development plan
    5. Support in maintaining product intelligence (competition features, pricing policy, regulation)
    6. Act as a support to the SME’s for custody product
  • Support of the sale of custody products
    1. Assist the Regional head of custody product to delivery on agreed strategy
    2. Assist the custody product manager in ensuring that the sales team have a fair command of the products and services
    3. Assist Local product managers in terms or RFP and RFI with respect to custody products

 

As a Marketing & Communications intern, you will:

 

  • Support marketing campaign planning and execution;
  • Measure and report the results of marketing initiatives;
  • Assist in the creation and editing of written, video, and image content for BNP Paribas thought leadership materials;
  • Write internal communications;
  • Write copy for social media posts and helping to plan the social media strategy for the region based on specific events and activities within the marketing plan;
  • Support the marketing manager in daily administrative duties such as processing invoices, budget tracking, etc.;
  • Help with the planning and hosting of marketing events – sponsored events, client or internal events;
  • Internal staff engagement activities;
  • Researching and evaluating competitor marketing activities and digital content;
  • Performing market analysis and research on the latest trends;
  • Editing articles for external clients/prospects;
  • Designing and presenting new social media campaign ideas;
  • Marketing strategy for the region;

 

As a Sustainable Finance intern, you will:

Assist the Head of Sustainable Finance APAC for CSR activities and focus on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) topics around the 3 following axis:

  • Community : charity events
  • Employee : awareness, well-being
  • Operations : carbon footprint, waste management

There is plenty to do and much more to kick start. Any viable project suggested can be owned and managed by the candidate. The direction is simple: push as much as possible to improve BNP Paribas’s environmental and social impact with Communities, Employees and through our own Operations