Trainee - 12 months’ Contract - Global Markets Research & Strategy
Societe Generale
Singapore
Posted on Apr 17, 2026
Responsibilities
Development of Quantitative Models
- Assist in the creation, testing, and documentation of quantitative models for analysing financial markets from both a return and risk perspective.
- Apply rigorous mathematical reasoning, ensuring that derivations, assumptions, and methodological choices are clearly stated and reproducible.\
- Contribute to research projects requiring careful validation, sensitivity analysis, and clear separation of known, inferred, and uncertain components.
Automation and Research Infrastructure
- Help automate existing analytical workflows, including data processing pipelines and repeatable research routines.
- Assist in building and maintaining a structured library of data visualisation tools and statistical utilities, written in clean, well documented code (R or Python).
- Emphasise reproducibility, version control, and comprehensive error handling.
Quantitative Tools and Statistical Analysis
- Develop and maintain quantitative tools for analysing asset markets, focusing on return distributions, risk characteristics, and behaviour under stress or volatility.
- Implement statistical techniques with methodological care, ensuring transparency of assumptions and avoiding ad hoc or unverified procedures.
Market Research and Trading Idea Support
- Assist in identifying and evaluating trading opportunities across asset classes using data driven and mathematically sound frameworks.
- Support research on themes such as volatility, mean reversion, cross asset relationships, and the impact of macroeconomic or geopolitical events.
- Apply foundational derivatives knowledge where relevant, ensuring clarity and correctness in any analytical work involving options or related structures.