Student Intern - Analyst, Market Strategy & Insights (Summer Term)

Venture outside the ordinary - TMX Careers

The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets. United as a global team, we're connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress. Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team.

Ready to be part of the action?

The Intern will maximize Big Data tools and the Enterprise Data Platform to aid in the development of quantitative analytics that will guide and support strategic decision making, as well as provide pertinent data-driven insights to internal collaborators and key clients.

TMX Group is an integrated, multi-asset class exchange group. TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. We also provide clearing facilities, data products and other services to the international financial community. TMX Markets consist of the Derivatives and Equities Trading businesses of the TMX Group.

The Student Intern - Analyst, Market Strategy & Insights will be part data-scientist and part developer, with a keen curiosity about business. In this role, the Analyst will work at the intersection of business and technology, developing solutions for the business by improving the enterprise's considerable technology and data assets.

The Intern will maximize Big Data tools and the Enterprise Data Platform to aid in the development of quantitative analytics that will guide and support strategic decision making, as well as provide pertinent data-driven insights to internal collaborators and key clients.

In addition, their role will also be to develop Web Applications, scripts and back-end services that will help our Sales, Operations and Product Development teams realize efficiencies through process automation and self-serve analytics.

Key Accountabilities:

Leverage TMX data assets to provide quantitative and strategic support to internal and external collaborators, namely:

• Product Design - identify opportunities for revenue optimization and new products

• Clients- facilitate the optimization of client interactions with TMX Markets products to ensure they derive maximum value from our product suite

• Market Research - identify emerging trends and anomalies in market place behaviour

• Business Development - assess opportunities to attract new customer segments, diversify revenue sources and deliver new value-add services

Develop tools, processes and analytics to deliver meaningful insights and automate processes for our internal partners in Sales, Operations and Product Development:

• Web Applications that provide an interactive front-end to allow users to run analytics and extract pertinent data

• Back-end services that interact with multiple data sources in order to compile and serve clean, high quality data for downstream processes

• Scripts to automate data extraction, cleaning and transformation

• Scripts to automate reporting processes and identification of relevant insights

Must Haves:

• Currently working towards an undergraduate degree in a quantitative or technology focused field such as Computer Science, Engineering or Business with a joint degree/minor in a quantitative/analytical subject area

• Experience working with Big Data tools such as Presto, Hive, Apache Spark

• Experience/ curiosity about using a modern JavaScript framework (such as React, Angular or Vue) and writing code in JavaScript and Python

• Experience using tools such as Docker, Git, JIRA.

• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal, analytical and research skill

• A self-starter who is hardworking, flexible and able to work independently as well as part of a dedicated team in a demanding environment

In the market for…

Excitement - Explore emerging technology and innovation, as well as ventures and digital finance that shape the future of global markets! Experience the movement of the market while grounded in the stability of close to 200 years of success.

Connection - With site hubs in some of the world's most multicultural cities, we leverage our size and structure to create rich connections and belonging while experiencing powerful global impact through our work.

Impact - More than a platform, we use our talents to power mission-critical systems that drive global economic advancement, innovation, and growth. As well, our employee-led Team Impact spreads social good via our giving strategy.

Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger "we". Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived!

Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.

Ready to enrich your career with impactful work, leaders who truly care, and the flexibility and programs to help you thrive as part of #TeamTMX ? Apply now.

TMX is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.