Job Description

Join us as an Financial Derivatives Intern !

We’re seeking a results-driven Financial Derivatives Intern to join our Financial Derivatives team in Paris, ideally from January 2027. You will report to the Pricing and Liquidity team.

Your role will be to assist the team to help them in ensuring the business competitiveness among a demanding and fast growing environment. The intern will support the team in market and product development activities for its Equity Derivatives franchise, but also it new Fixed Income Derivatives offering. The intern will help the team to support the client interactions and will be involved into the marketing campaigns. Client targets include buy-side, sell-side, liquidity providers, asset managers and clearing members based in the continental Europe and the UK.

The intern might also provide support in the integration process of Athex Exchange within the Euronext legacy infrastructure.

The intern will interact on a daily basis with employees from various departments, the management team and clients, for which interpersonal skills are key.

Your missions:

• Automate the generation of trading reports to follow product developments and feed clients with trading trends.
• Support the team commercial efforts in automating with Power BI the generation of presentations for clients (banks, market makers, brokers) including statistics describing trading pattern and rankings.
• Supporting data scientists in research and quantitative projects using Python and SQL.
• Use AI to improve the monitoring of competitors’ developments on Euronext markets and market shares trends.
• Lead advanced analysis on derivatives (options, futures, etc.) markets to guide strategic decision-making and help product designing.
• 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 and newsletters for the launch of our new products/services.
• Monitoring of the business environment: regulatory changes, economic indicators, and competitive intelligence analysis in the derivatives markets (new products, performance, potential differentiation etc.)
• Maintain the client database to ensure a strong distribution network.
• Other ad-hoc analysis and projects to support the Financial Derivatives team.

Your profile:

• Final or penultimate year of master’s degree, specialising in finance or engineering.
• Previous experience, ideally in the bank sector, or in a demanding position in the wider financial services industry and/or in a large corporate, would be 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 in 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.

Apply 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 at 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 to add more tasks, projects.