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.
Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 63 markets with more than 180,000
employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets
and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and
financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate
& Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate
clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for
BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
* excluding partnerships
BNP Paribas offers you an exciting career in an international
business environment that is fast-paced, diverse and focuses on creating
high-value relationships with our clients. We offer competitive salary and
benefits, as well as a working environment where you’re valued as part of the
team.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
2025 APAC Long Internship (Jan – Jun) – Securities Services –
Singapore
For:
Undergraduate students in any
disciplines from a recognized university
Duration: 6 months
Start date: January 2025
Location: Singapore
Candidates with more than one application will not be processed –
You are encouraged to review the different business lines and working locations
before applying.
What you can expect?
Induction
You will be provided with a comprehensive induction, where you will be immersed
in group training and discover more about the BNP Paribas Group.
Training
From day one, you will start your business specific technical and financial
training, alongside personal skills development aimed at equipping you with the
knowledge you need to get you the best possible start in your career. Working
alongside our teams of industry leading specialists, you will gain on-the-job
training throughout your 6 months programme taking you along a development path
to build your expertise and broaden your base of skills.
About the Role
As a Banking Services Operations intern, you will:
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Assist with custody account opening request;
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Facilitate,
follow up and track account opening request;
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Carries out any other assignments and provides
back-up within the team which may include asset servicing activities.
As a Business Implementation & Change Management intern, you will:
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End-to-end coordination of new client onboarding for the
Singapore Branch services;
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Coordination of Transitions related activities for
existing clients – fund launches, terminations, restructuring, etc.;
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Maintain and
build a strong client service culture for all projects;
·
Deepen
relationships with all stakeholders and clients and proactively manage issues
arising from requirements, deliverables and deadlines;
·
Work
independently and proactively promote the continuous improvement of
On-boarding, Off-boarding & Transitions documentation, procedures and
systems;
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Assist in
end-to-end coordination of new client onboarding and client transitions
activities from initiation to GO-LIVE;
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Assist in
ensuring full, transparent and appropriate communication and documentation to
and from stakeholders throughout the onboarding and transition activities;
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Assist in
establishing project governance with internal business units for coordination,
planning and tracking;
·
Assist in driving
regular strategic client meetings, documenting, understanding the onboarding
and transition activities timelines, deliverables, requirements, key
dependencies and track to closure, escalating where necessary;
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Assist in
completing documentation for implementation sign-off, audit and control
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Ensure close
collaborations with Internal stakeholders – specifically Client Delivery,
Client Development, Sales and Relationship Managers to manage pipeline,
resourcing and project handovers.
As a CoS & CAO Office intern, you
will:
Chief of Staff:
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Work closely with Chief of Staff (CoS) to manage
the Strategy
o
Assist CoS in gathering market inputs from location
sales lead; operational inputs from Client Delivery; function updates etc
o
Participate and provide materials for monthly
location updates
o
Gather inputs from Management team and prepare
materials for management reporting
·
Operational KPIs
o
Drive a project on Operational KPIs and put into a
dashboard
·
MarComm & People’s Campaign Support
o
Analyzing key metrics to strategize initiatives in
improving workplace culture
o
Initiating and driving key campaigns to support
people’s agenda
CAO Office:
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Review and analyze excel reports related to transactions
·
Review and analyse the multiple data flows that make up
these reports
·
Propose and implement improvements to reduce the
complexity and effort for these reports
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Other CAO Office support tasks that can broaden the
Candidate’s knowledge on our services
As a Client Development intern, you will:
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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;
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Responsible for assisting the local Sales and RM team:-
o deals and pipeline updates and
reporting using Client Vision
o logistics for internal and
external meetings/ presentations and RFPs
o manage invitations and
responses for client events liaising with Global Markets and senior bankers
o 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
Reporting intern, you will:
The Client Reporting team oversees the production of month-end
reporting for Institutional clients performed by the Singapore office to ensure
the timely delivery and accuracy of the reports. The scope will also include
liaising with various internal operational teams to ensure smooth production
and to resolve any issues and/or queries raised by the client.
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To manage the end-to-end process to produce the Client
reports for Institutional client, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of the
reports while complying with internal controls, policies and procedures. To
investigate and resolve any data anomalies that may impact the accuracy and
timeliness;
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To resolve client queries relating to reporting issues
and respond to ad-hoc client queries or requests in a timely manner;
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To prepare and review daily, weekly and monthly NAV funds in accordance with applicable Industry
recommended accounting practices, accounting standard or specific
constitutional documents. And to ensure accurate and timely delivery of reports
and NAVs;
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To work with internal teams to close the gap and improve
process, and update internal procedures for any changes;
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Develop a full understanding of client’s reporting
requirements;
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To contribute to other ad-hoc activities that may
be required from time to time.
As a Financial
Intermediaries & Corporates (FI&C) Client Line intern, you will:
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 to provide integral central support to the Client Lines
FI&C team;-
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FI&C activities in the region
o Key support for regional Heads
of FI&C Client Line and APAC Heads of Custody & Clearing Product;
o Monitoring and reporting of
profitability to regional stakeholders;
o Analytical analysis and
reporting of underlying client activity;
o Support to local product
manages in pricing new and existing client activity.
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Assist the development of the product franchise
o Help the regional heads in delivering
key priorities;
o Generate ideas to improve our
product offer;
o Assist in ensuring that regional
product needs and regulatory needs are well taken into account in the product
development plan;
o Support in maintaining product
intelligence (competition features, pricing policy, regulation);
o Act as a support to the SME’s
for custody product.
·
Support of the sale of custody products
o Assist the Regional head of
custody product to delivery on agreed strategy;
o Assist the custody product
manager in ensuring that the sales team have a fair command of the products and
services;
o Assist Local product managers
in terms or RFP and RFI with respect to custody products.
As a Fund Accountant
intern, you will:
Involve in the day-to day fund administration
operations performed by the Singapore office for domestic funds/portfolios managed
in Asia/European that cover the morning shift on rotation basis.
·
Review daily, weekly and monthly NAV funds/portfolios in
accordance with applicable Industry recommended accounting practices,
accounting standard or specific constitutional documents;
·
Work with fund/portfolio accountants and liaise with
different support functions to ensure NAVs are delivered in timely manner to
meet the agreed KPIs;
·
Provide accurate statistic data (KPIs etc.) on an
as-scheduled basis and establish service excellence;
·
Ensure NAV calculations are accurately prepared and in
line with the BNPP operational and system procedural manual.;
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Working pro-actively with Clients to resolve queries on
action points relating to Fund Admin matters;
·
Able to work closely under tight deadline with client and
auditors to meet client specific reporting requirements;
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Other ad-hoc duties as may be required from time to time;
·
Prepare operational and system procedural manuals to
ensure that all operational risks are well under control and adequate for the
day to day activities;
·
Report and escalate operational or major incidents
including any breach or error occurrences to the Management.
As an Investment
Reporting and Performance intern, you will:
The Investment Reporting and Performance (IRP) team
sits within Asset and Fund Services division of BNP Paribas Securities Services
(BP2S). The team’s mission is to provide investment analytics services to
internal and external clients of BP2S. The three key services areas are:
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Service delivery of investment performance & risk
analytics for internal and external clients
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Client relationship management support for internal and
external clients of IRP in Asia
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Technical expertise and product consulting for internal
and external clients of IRP in Asia
IRP are a specialised, analytical and client
services focused team. To enable them to complete their roles fully, they are
required to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
As a Private
Capital intern, you will:
Assist the Team in carrying out delivery of service to client support
onboarding and transitions and participate in business change and improvement
projects:-
Assist the team in
timely completion of preparing client’s accounts, preparing NAV calculation,
reporting and statement distribution, audits, preparation of other client’s
deliverables, conduct research and/or system testing and adhere to BNP’s
internal control and risk framework.