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 64 markets with more than 178,000 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/
2026 APAC Long Internship (Jan - Jun) – Securities Services, Client Delivery - Singapore
For: Undergraduate students in any disciplines from a recognized university
Duration: 6 months
Streams: Banking Services Operations, Business Implementation & Change Management, Client Reporting, Financial Reporting, Fund Accounting, Investment Reporting & Performance, Private Capital
Start date: January 2026
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.
What you will do?
As a Banking Services Operations intern, you will:
- Assist the Team in carrying out delivery of service to support resolution of post trade queries on custody, such as on International Trade settlement / Corporate Action & Income processing / Tax related queries / Money transfers activity;
- Develop an understanding of our Clients’ custody activities;
- Follow-up client activity - provide reporting and managing operational risk;
- 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:
- End-to-end coordination of new client onboarding for the Singapore Branch services;
- Coordination of Transitions related activities for existing clients – fund launches, terminations, restructuring, etc.;
- 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;
- Assist in end-to-end coordination of new client onboarding and client transitions activities from initiation to GO-LIVE;
- Assist in ensuring full, transparent and appropriate communication and documentation to and from stakeholders throughout the onboarding and transition activities;
- 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;
- Assist in completing documentation for implementation sign-off, audit and control
- Ensure close collaborations with Internal stakeholders – specifically Client Delivery, Client Development, Sales and Relationship Managers to manage pipeline, resourcing and project handovers.
As a Client Reporting intern, you will:
- 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;
- To resolve client queries relating to reporting issues and respond to ad-hoc client queries or requests in a timely manner;
- 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;
- To work with internal teams to close the gap and improve process, and update internal procedures for any changes;
- Develop a full understanding of client’s reporting requirements;
- To contribute to other ad-hoc activities that may be required from time to time.
As a Financial Reporting intern, you will:
Financial Reporting: Oversight and conduct analytical reviews for monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Accounting Reporting system: Possess strong computing knowledge in design and develop the reporting system
- Tax matters: To understand the Singapore mutual funds tax regime
- Consolidation: To have strong accounting knowledge in consolidation
- Process Optimization: Identify opportunities to streamline and automate financial processes, enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness
- Client focus: To meet client Key Performance indicators and ensure client expectation and satisfaction are achieved
- Maintenance of Security Settlement Instruction (SSI): Ensure accurate and timely updates of SSI in both system and folder
- Project support: Assist in various ad hoc projects, contributing your expertise to support the ideas.
- Communications: Excellent written and spoken communication skills with ability to analyse the financial information and response to audit, tax and client queries
As a Fund Accounting intern, you will:
- 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;
- 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;
- Attendance and participation in team / departmental meetings;
- 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.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Hedge Fund Services Fund Accounting:
As part of the Fund Accounting team, they are responsible for the overall production of the Net Asset Valuations (“NAVs”) for single manager and fund of hedge fund clients in adherence to Liquid Alternatives - HFS client service level documents. NAVs for clients may be produced daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually according to clients’ requirements. The team independently reconcile, review and report on trades, positions, cash and prices, controls general ledger postings and the final NAV review sign off process.
Hedge Fund Services Investor Services:
A unique opportunity to gain practical experience in both Know Your Customer (KYC)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance and client servicing functions within a global investment servicing environment.
You will work alongside experienced professionals and assist with client onboarding, due diligence reviews and ongoing servicing activities while gaining insights into regulatory obligations, operational best practices and investor lifecycle management.
As an Investment Reporting and Performance intern, you will:
- BAU Production Management and Oversight
- Providing product knowledge support to the wider business and to clients
- Subject Matter Expert for transitions and projects
- Staff cross-training and coverage
- Support the production of investment performance & risk information data for clients in accordance with the industry standards – (GIPS) as well as client service level agreement (SLA) requirements. This includes performance measurement, risk analysis and attribution analysis and report production.
- Develop and maintain relationships with clients to ensure provision of high level of service.
- Work and support clients as a subject matter expert in the field of investment performance and risk.
- Assist Head of Client Service Delivery and Implementations with BAU workflow organization, oversight and delivery.
- Governance over outsourced providers to ensure that they provide their services as expected.
- Prepare service review decks and organize and/or attend client meetings on the IRP services.
- Ongoing development of the IRP platform and participation in Global projects.
- Recommend and implement improvements to service for both clients and BPSS, in terms of efficiencies and new products and services.
- Ensure a robust and automated performance process in a controlled environment.
- Investigate, document, report and resolve issues and recommend corrective action where appropriate.
- Identify and alert management to risks, deficiencies and opportunities for re-engineering of controls and processes.
- Ensure Compliance of all processes with internal policies and procedures.
- Provide management reports to Global IRP team on regular or ad hoc basis.
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.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Positive attitude and team player
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly motivated, self-starter with the ability to work in pressurized environment
- Highly structured and methodical in execution
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize workloads, strong time management skills
- Results driven with a strong commitment to completing tasks within deadlines
- Ability to understand and resolve or escalate issues quickly
- Enjoy working in a socially diverse environment
- Comfortable dealing with senior individuals and management across functions
- Strong knowledge of financial industry with good experience across asset classes
