Project Intern, Quantitative Strategy and Performance Analytics (Quantitative Strategy) (Rolling Intake)

Your role

The intern will assist the team in building up the infrastructure for quantitative analysis and support ongoing research activities. Specific responsibilities can include: 

• Automate signal generation and tracking of trading ideas in the research phase. Work with team to deploy previously tracked signals to live portfolio.
• Assist with building infrastructure to maintain a quantitatively managed portfolio.
• Build dashboards to monitor market and portfolio performance.
• Assist with signal research activities leveraging traditional and alternative data sources.

About you

To apply for this role, you must be:

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (such as Financial Engineering or quantitative subjects like statistics, math, hard sciences with a demonstrated interest in Finance).
• Prior work experience in finance (sell-side or buy-side) or quantitative investing at buy-side firm will be advantageous.  
• Programming (python preferred) and statistics skillsets are required. 
• Please state your availability clearly in your resume/CV (Start date, End date).
• Period: January 2024 to December 2024 (min. Full-Time 6 Months OR Part-Time 4 Days/Week for 6 Months).

Benefits

Temasek offers a wide range of employee benefits, which include:

• Career development and personal wellness programs.
• Family-friendly initiatives help staff to achieve their career and personal aspirations.
• Classes on meditation, stress management, and fitness activities to support them in managing their well-being.
• Flexible work arrangements.

Training & development

Temasek places a strong emphasis on developing and deepening its capabilities, and ensuring its talent remains relevant for today and tomorrow. Their ‘4Es’ talent framework incorporates development programs and opportunities for its staff to gain Experience, Exposure, Education, and Enrichment. They encourage mobility as a way of developing their talent to acquire multidisciplinary domains and these include job rotations to different teams, overseas assignments, stints in portfolio companies, stretch assignments, mentoring, coaching, etc.

Career progression

Through this program, you will be immersed in the role of a generational investor working on real business challenges as well as ongoing business projects, and be a step closer to securing a full-time opportunity with Temasek.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• temasek.com.sg
• temasekreview.com.sg
• youtube.com/temasek