Trainee - 12 months’ Contract - Global Markets Research & Strategy

Societe Generale

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.