Institutional Derivatives Intern

Euronext; Paris; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading exchange in finance is seeking an Institutional Derivatives Intern to join their Financial Derivatives team in Paris. The role involves supporting product development, generating trading reports, and engaging with clients. Ideal candidates are Master's students specializing in finance or engineering, with strong analytical and project management skills. This is a great opportunity for those looking to gain experience in the capital markets industry.

Qualifications

• Final or penultimate year of a master’s degree specialising in finance or engineering.
• Ideally previous experience in the banking sector or financial services.
• Good understanding of financial services.

Responsabilités

• Generate trading reports to inform clients about trading trends.
• Support team’s efforts in client presentations and analysis.
• Conduct competitive analysis for strategic decision-making.

Connaissances

Project management skills

Analytical capabilities

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving capabilities

Quick learner

Formation

Master's degree in finance or engineering

Outils

Python

VBA

Description du poste

Join us as an Institutional Derivatives Intern!

Are you ready to shape the future of capital markets? We’re seeking a results-driven Institutional Derivatives Intern to join our Financial Derivatives team in Paris, ideally starting in January 2026. You will report to the Head of Financial Derivatives.

Your role will be to assist the team in ensuring the business remains competitive in a demanding, fast‑growing environment. The intern will support the team in market and product development activities for its Derivatives franchise, help support client interactions, and be involved in marketing campaigns. Client targets include buy‑side and sell‑side liquidity providers, asset managers, and clearing members based in continental Europe and the UK.

The intern will interact daily with employees from various departments, the management team, and clients – interpersonal skills are key.

Your missions:

• Generating trading reports on a frequent basis to follow product developments and feed clients with trading trends.
• Supporting the team’s commercial efforts in building presentations for clients (banks, market makers, brokers) including statistics describing trading patterns and rankings.
• Supporting data scientists in research and quantitative projects using Python and VBA.
• Close monitoring of competitors’ developments on Euronext markets and market share trends.
• Lead advanced analysis on derivatives (options, futures, etc.) markets to guide strategic decision‑making and help product design.
• Conduct weekly/monthly client activity analysis.
• Support the team’s efforts to enhance the current product offering and trading functionalities, as well as evaluate new product development opportunities to distinguish Euronext from its competitors in the derivatives market.
• Participate in the marketing campaign for the launch of our new products/services.
• Monitor the business environment: regulatory changes, economic indicators, and competitive intelligence analysis in the derivatives markets (new product performance, potential differentiation, etc.).
• Maintain the client database to ensure a strong distribution network.
• Other ad‑hoc analyses and projects to support the Financial Derivatives team.

Your profile:

• Final or penultimate year of a master’s degree specialising in finance or engineering.
• Previous experience ideally in the banking sector or in a demanding position within the wider financial services industry and/or a large corporate – a plus.
• Good understanding of financial services.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities; ability to quickly gain a deep understanding of a wide span of complex strategic, operational and regulatory matters.
• Impeccable oral and written English. French would be a plus.
• Ability to articulate a strategy orally and in writing and to communicate key decision points clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Fast learner, proactive behaviour and entrepreneurial mindset – pragmatic, hands‑on execution, ability to recommend decisions under uncertainty.
• Ability to deliver results and make things happen from project inception to completion.
• Good interpersonal skills to handle a wide, multicultural network of stakeholders.
• By submitting a CV in English.

About Euronext Financial Derivatives team

Euronext Derivatives offers a wide range of index futures and options as well as single‑stock options and futures to a diverse community of clients (banks, asset managers, brokers, and investment firms) worldwide.

The Paris Euronext Institutional Derivatives team focuses on defining the Derivatives strategy by developing the reach of its core products within clients mainly based in France, the UK, and the US and works closely with traders to develop new products and services to generate future growth.

Euronext Values

• Unity: We respect and value the people we work with. We are unified through a common purpose. We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion.
• Integrity: We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly. We act with integrity in everything we do. We don’t hide our mistakes and we learn from them.
• Agility: We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness. We are adaptable, responsive, and embrace change. We take smart risks.
• Energy: We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo. We focus on and encourage personal leadership. We motivate each other with our ambition.
• Accountability: We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders. We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome.

We reward and celebrate performance

We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view, and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

Additional Information

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent adding more tasks or projects.