TRAINEE: Market Activity Analyst

Job description

Environment

SG CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Societe Generale Group. Present in over 50 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia. SG CIB provides corporate, financial institutions, investors and public sector clients with value-added integrated financial solutions.

The Market Analysts Certification Community (MACC) department is looking for a Trainee to work within the team on the Prime Services business. You will be responsible of the production, analysis, comments and diffusion of the official economic P&L metrics. An important aspect as a Trainee would be to demonstrate the ability and willingness to learn, and rapidly adapt to become fully functional in a short period of time.

Mission

Main Responsibilities

PnL Certification

·  Produce independently and certify the daily and monthly economic results to Front Office (FO), MACC, and GBIS / Group management
·  Provide PnL analysis and comments to facilitate the validation of economic results by FO
·  Validate and publish the official economic results in D+1 to management
Accounting Certification

·  Work closely with the accounting / economic reconciliation team on discrepancies
·  Cooperate with CFO for Monthly / Quarterly activity's trend comments
·  Preparation of other reports for internal counterparts, authorities, auditors etc
Projects

·  Be an essential element and referent for all the partners for project assigned by your manager
·  Participate to on-going improvement on P/L process efficiency and effectiveness (lead time reduction, improved granularity, streamlining)
·  New products and participation in transversal projects, as and when requested by management

Desired profile

Profile

·  Hold a Bachelors or Masters degree with a major in Finance or Engineering
·  Understanding of capital market, and in particular the strategies and products traded
·  Strong Excel skills. Knowledge and experience on VBA is a plus
·  Pro-active, swift, analytical, rigorous, tenacity
·  Good team player, able to multi task and work under pressure
·  Good communication and organizational skills
·  Fluent English is mandatory
This is a fixed term 12 month Trainee contract with Societe Generale. You will form part of the team on a full time basis. In order to apply for the Trainee position please ensure you have completed your qualification and will be available to work full time for the duration of the Trainee contract.