# Emerging Markets Trading - AM [OCBC](https://www.jorb.ai/firms/ocbc.md) · Singapore · [Sales & Trading](https://www.jorb.ai/jobs/sales-trading.md) OCBC is hiring a Emerging Markets Trading - AM in Singapore. Posted 2026-08-12; applications close 2026-10-11. **Apply**: https://ocbc.wd102.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/OCBC-Singapore/Emerging-Markets-Trading---AM_JR00010166 Posted 3d ago. ## Role details ## Who We Are As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. We take the time to truly understand people, and from there provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation—leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. Our strategic ambition remains clear and bold: to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. Join us to build the bank of the future: innovate the way we deliver financial services, work in friendly, supportive teams, build lasting value in your community, help people grow their assets, business, and investments, and take your learning as far as you can. ## About the Role OCBC’s Global Markets business prices, distributes, and risk-manages fixed income, rates, and FX-linked solutions for institutional and corporate clients across Asia. The Singapore Local Rates Trading desk sits within Global Markets and is responsible for market-making and risk-managing Singapore rates products—including SGS bonds, SORA-linked derivatives, and interest rate swaps—for clients. We are hiring across the 0–3 year experience range, including fresh graduates joining their first desk role, OCBC Graduate Talent Program alumni moving onto Rates specifically, and lateral hires bringing 1–3 years of relevant market experience. Scope and expectations are calibrated to what you bring (see Qualifications below). ## Why Join Us You’ll get a rare kind of ownership on a desk this size: the tools and dashboards you build don’t sit in a training exercise—they run the desk. Improve a process and the whole team feels it, whether you’re three months in or three years in. OCBC is investing heavily in becoming a more AI-driven, data-led organisation. Your instincts to automate the repetitive work and question how tasks get done are exactly what the desk needs more of. If you’re already at OCBC and started out through the Graduate Talent Program, this is also a direct path onto a specialist trading desk without leaving the bank. ## What You’ll Do - Support pricing, risk monitoring, and trade execution across SGS, SORA-linked derivatives, and interest rate swaps, with direct execution responsibility scaling with your experience. - Build and maintain the data views, dashboards, and reports the desk uses to make decisions, and look for ways to automate the repetitive parts of that work. - Translate client flow and market activity into insight the desk can act on. - Take ownership of small tools or process improvements that make the whole desk more effective—not just your own workload. - Apply the discipline of risk management day-to-day, including position limits and escalation—protecting the bank always comes before making money. - Contribute to a desk culture where covering for teammates, sharing what you’ve learned, and flagging a mistake early matter as much as your own trade ideas. ## How You Succeed - Bring curiosity and humility to every trade, every mistake, and every piece of feedback. - Ask how AI or automation could handle the repetitive parts of a task before spending hours doing it manually. - Treat risk limits as boundaries you respect, not lines you test. - Prefer covering a teammate’s blind spot rather than protecting your own numbers. - Learn the market by being genuinely curious about it, not because someone told you to. ## What Success Looks Like in Year One - Understand the products, the risk framework, and your limits well enough that senior traders trust you with real responsibility. - Build or improve at least one tool, report, or workflow that the desk still uses. - Ask “Can AI or automation do this faster?” before doing repetitive work manually. - Never have to be told twice about a risk or process rule. - Teammates would say you make the desk better—not just your own numbers. ## Required Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field: Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Economics, or Finance. - 0–3 years of relevant experience. Fresh graduates, OCBC Graduate Talent Program alumni, and lateral hires from another desk or institution are welcome. - Excellence in and hands-on experience with data science through coursework, personal projects, research, hackathons, or internships. Comfortable with Excel and at least one of Python or SQL. - For candidates with 1–3 years’ experience: a demonstrated track record in rates, fixed income, or a closely related trading, structuring, or quantitative role, with working product knowledge of SGS, SORA-linked derivatives, or interest rate swaps. - Genuine interest in fixed income markets and macroeconomics—you follow rates markets because you want to, not because a JD told you to. - Curious mindset with a passion for continuous learning and experimentation. ## Preferred Qualifications - Prior exposure to Bloomberg, data visualisation tools, or basic programming for data work. - Internship, prior desk experience, or coursework touching fixed income, trading, or quantitative finance. - Familiarity with AI tools (Copilot) as part of your normal workflow, not just something you’ve heard of. ## What We Offer Competitive base salary, a suite of holistic and flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle, community initiatives, and industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth, and aspirations are cared for as much as the needs of our customers. ## Applying to this role This Emerging Markets Trading - AM role at OCBC runs through the firm's own careers portal and expects a CV and cover letter written specifically for the posting, not a portable submission carried across firms. Jorb AI's application agent tailors a CV and cover letter from your background to this posting and tracks the role alongside the rest of your applications. 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