London - 2025 Long Term Internship - Commodity

BANK OVERVIEW

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets, 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.

BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions.

BUSINESS AREA / DEPT OVERVIEW

Global Macro – Commodity

We offer a full-scale, integrated global commodities business with market access across crude oil & products, natural gas & power, base & precious metals, coal & freight, agricultural commodities and environmental markets.

In line with our commitment to sustainability, we are at the forefront of the energy transition driving signi­ficant change within the energy market. We are a leading player in carbon markets (regulated and voluntary) and our product suite extends into environmental certifi­cates, power and carbon-neutral investment products.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Being part of the CD Commodity team, supporting with the development of the business.
• Learning the different booking and pricing systems.
• Helping with recaps, end of day internal reconciliation trade emails.
• Liaising with the middle office on trade reconciliation or any issues when required.
• Writing daily market reports (Metals, Gas, Oil, etc.).
• Sending daily news internally and to clients.
• Assisting with managing the onboarding process, following up with internal teams and clients to obtain the required information.
• Managing the distribution lists and updating the client contact list.
• Building up a good relationship with different commodity trading teams, and drawing out information/flows of note that can be used for marketing.
• Maintaining and developing excel spread sheets for key commodity market information and positions, to be incorporated in market flashes.
• Monitoring inter market relationships, arbs and spreads, what is not visible from the screen price.
• Helping the CD team with incoming client calls.
• Helping the CD team with meeting presentations and ad-hoc analysis.
• Learning how to use Risk Navigator and support the team with credit simulation and RAROC calculations.
• The aim is to make the candidate confident in quoting, supporting and covering clients, developing new relationships and showing ownership of clients within the team.

EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES 

Essential

• Familiarity with financial markets and ideally the commodity markets.
• Experience in managing large dataset.
• Ability to prepare marketing material.
• Ability to work with some autonomy.

Preferred

• Knowledge related to commodity products.
• Good programming skills and experience in using Python.
• Good use of Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

CONDUCT

• Be a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct.
• Demonstrate proactivity, transparency, and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks.
• Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions.
• Escalate issues to your manager when unsure.

Duration: 6 months
Salary: Competitive
Location: London

PLEASE NOTE

• You may only apply for up to 4 long term internships per recruitment year.
• Successful candidates for this long term internship must be based in London from the start of their role.
• Please discuss the available start dates with your interviewers.