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 (May - Dec) – Transaction Banking APAC
For: Undergraduate students in any disciplines from a recognized university
Start date: May 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.
We are seeking enthusiastic and responsible undergraduates to join our long internship program. In this position, you will be exposed to the intricacies of Transaction Banking (TB). You will discover how our Bank partners with corporates to optimize their Cash Conversion Cycles, and improve Trade/ Working capital. There are multiple roles within the TB business and interns will be assigned to a dedicated team:
1. APAC Regional Cash Management Sales and Product Management
2. APAC Global Banking Business Management
3. APAC Client Service and Cash Implementation
4. APAC Liquidity and Investment Solutions Business Management
5. APAC Regional International Trade
6. APAC Global Trade Solutions Product Management
7. APAC Banking and Network Management
8. SEA Cash Management Sales
9. APAC Global Trade Solutions and SEA Supply Chain Management
In addition to the on-the-job experience, the intern will have to opportunity to meet and interact with managers and executives of different departments of the Bank. This will enrich their personal network and understanding of how a bank functions.
Successful applicants will be given an internship allowance and may be offered the opportunity to join the Bank’s Graduate Programme upon their graduation, subject to:
- An academic grade per the programme’s criteria in the final year i.e. the obtainment of the degree
- A positive recommendation by the manager during the internship
Responsibilities (dependent on the teams allocated)
1. APAC Regional Cash Management Sales and Product Management
Regional Sales:
• Support Sales Pipeline Management, which includes reviewing quality of CRMLite input, validation of pipeline with individual territories, validation of revenue estimates in pipeline.
• Regional reports, which includes data extraction, weekly pipeline reports, CM monthly dashboard, RFP tracking and dashboard, etc
• Support various RFPs and regional deals
• Periodic updates of CM product content and capabilities for RFPs and pitchbook
• Support various projects, survey tracking and Award pitches
Cash Product Management:
• Provide product management support in TBA product deployment as required by Cash product managers.
• Support APAC cash product management managers in the Product reference document review
• Assist APAC cash product managers in supporting product commercialization activities through the provision of data analysis and coordination with internal teams
• Initiate and manage TB APAC product knowledge database, content and governance policies.
• Support various industrialization activities by working with regional product managers
2. APAC Global Banking Business Management
• To run the periodic reports and monthly revenue simulations
• Support the function in forecasting/budgeting exercise
• Support the function in executing other projects and strategic initiatives as assigned
• New Joiner Broadcast – Gather write-up and consolidate into template monthly
• Remarkable Deals – Reaching out to Regional Product Leads and SPOCs to gather deals for B&C for broadcast
• Assist in the preparation of presentation deck as required for TBA senior management meetings / townhalls
• For other Forums – To help reach out to all the stakeholders to get content for the forums and put into ppt. Can also help in the financials extraction / slides
3. APAC Client Service and Cash Implementation
Client Service:
• To contribute to new global and regional projects associated with Client Service teams
• To support Client Service team contributions and tracking on industrialization projects like MPIs and repricing topics
• To support Client Service request category and subcategory review project
• To support launch of services review project for small sites and new sites (KR and AU)
• To contribute to monthly tracking of client services analytics and reporting.
Cash Implementation:
• Implementation Pipeline reporting enhancements (review, tracking of survey response rate, maintenance deals revenue monitoring)
• To contribute to monthly client implementation analytics and reporting as well follow ups with in country teams
• Contribute to implementation SOP’s updates and tracking
4. APAC Liquidity and Investment Solutions Business Management
• Assist in deposits sales steering activities in CIB Corporate Banking
• Perform ad-hoc analysis on deposits evolution and pricing
• Maintain and improve existing processes and Tableau reports
• Build new tableau reports to support sales initiatives
• Provide support to Business Development team in system enhancement and upgrade
• Contribute to improve efficiency in communication to internal stakeholders
5. APAC Regional International Trade
• To support BAU tasks for Traditional Trade APAC including:
• Data analytics, preparation/contribution to Ex-post quarterly dashboard, weekly Utilization report, Utilization reports sent to locations and funded overdue report, marketing intelligence, pitchbooks, daily support on clerical tasks, other ad hoc traditional trade sales initiative
• Support both Traditional Trade and Transaction Bank Group APAC sides depending on projects and priorities
6. APAC Global Trade Solutions Product Management
• Support with product requirement / testing / acceptance for new IT deliveries
• Support with product ownership (business requirement identification, drafting and enriching, prioritization exercises, user guides drafting)
• Support with product testing / acceptance / demo / training for new IT deliveries
• Support production of regular and some ad-hoc management reports as well as marketing material preparation for new features
• Support with manual delivery of certain key reports (SCM scope) and their transition to digital solutions
7. APAC Banking and Network Management
• Support Transaction Bank Group activity: daily processing of GBS Trade requests, monthly reporting, monitoring of banks' limits, ad hoc projects
• Support Correspondent Banking activity: handling of RMA keys, AML monitoring work, and preparing of data & drafting of periodical reports to offload the pressure on our Correspondent Banking expert
8. SEA Cash Management Sales
Cash Management Specialist:
• Analyzing and understanding key business drivers
• Perform activities to assist with our sales strategy and client engagement model
• Assist with Client presentations and putting together information from multiple sources.
• Develop Internal Pitches, Concept Papers, case studies across SEA
• Help to drive TB Sales initiatives & Contribute to ongoing SEA sales projects by actively monitoring progress w.r.t growth metrics
• To help on internal dashboards – market trends, regular business metrics & reporting, Fx evolution, pipelines, revenue projection & tracking etc
Cash Management Product:
• Participate in product development activities for the 2023 Product Roadmap for SEA countries
• Participate in various Efficiency, Governance related initiatives planned for SEA countries
• Assist in product commercialization related activities for product roll out/enhancements
• To assist in performing market study related to products
Business Management for SEA:
• Preparing presentation decks, analytics and consolidating data from different regions
• Projects on various internal/ external topics
9. APAC Global Trade Solutions and SEA Supply Chain Management
Global Trade Solutions Support:
The intern would work for GTS management on:
• Data analytics / dashboard specific to GTS
• Marketing intelligence: pitchbooks, industry-focus (eg mapping of clients across value chains of interest such as TMT, Construction, Renewable energies, Automotive including EV batteries)
• The intern could be deployed on à need basis to also address needs of TT sales / SCM / sustainability initiative
Supply Chain Management:
To support the SCM marketers by performing structuring tasks e.g.
• Structuring: main structuring tasks encompass the preparation of SCM memos for new deals and annual reviews, running pricing simulations (RAROC), drafting termsheets, preparing pitchbooks
• Compliance: to perform compliance tasks including TSAM/Fraud/AML check lists and to help the team with managing the higher invoice sampling requirements in Singapore
• Business management: contribute to various management reports for SCM
• Strategic Marketing: industry/sector analysis, peers analysis, cash conversion cycle analysis
Technical and Behavioural Competencies / Specific Qualifications (if required)
- Undergraduate students in data analytics, business, economics, finance, or related fields
- Strong academic performance
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Energetic, self-driven and responsible
- Ability to multi-task and possess organisation skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Attention to details
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications, in particular Excel and PowerPoint will be preferred
- Programming knowledge such as excel VBA and SQL will be preferred
