Work Location:

Singapore, Singapore

Hours:

40

Line of Business:

TD General

Pay Details:

We’re committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to all our colleagues. As a candidate, we encourage you to have an open dialogue with a member of our HR Team and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled intern to join our cash equity sales and trading team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting sales and trading through actionable insights, data-driven analysis, and model development. This role is ideal for someone with strong programming capabilities and a passion for market mechanics and quantitative research.

Key Responsibilities

• Corporate Access & Analyst Support: Collaborate with sales to facilitate corporate access and analyst interactions, providing data-driven insights to enhance client engagement.

• Algorithmic Performance Analytics: Conduct detailed analysis of algorithmic trading performance, including latency, execution quality, and slippage metrics, and suggest enhancements.

• Model Evaluation & Improvement: Assess existing trading and forecasting models for robustness and efficacy. Propose refinements based on empirical performance and emerging methodologies.

• Market Microstructure & Index Research: Investigate trading behavior and market mechanics, including liquidity dynamics, order book behavior, and index rebalancing effects.

• Market Impact & Style Factor Analysis: Analyze the impact of large orders on market prices and perform studies on factor exposures and portfolio tilts, potentially contributing to internal and client-facing research.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong programming experience with Python and proficiency in SQL

• Solid understanding of equity markets, market microstructure, and trading workflows

• Experience with quantitative research, algorithmic trading analytics, or related fields

• Ability to work with large datasets and generate clear, actionable insights

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to collaborate across teams and with external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance attribution and transaction cost analysis (TCA)

• Familiarity with index methodologies and rebalancing dynamics

• Exposure to style factor modeling (e.g., value, momentum, quality)

• Background in statistics, applied mathematics, financial engineering, or a related discipline

Who We Are

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investment we make in our colleagues to help them, and their families achieve their well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, including medical coverage, paid time off, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Colleague Development
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation

If you require an accommodation for the recruitment / interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodation), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.