Trade Support Analyst

Societe Generale; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20+ vacation days

Health spending account ($2,000/year)

Employee assistance program

Job summary

A major international banking institution in Montreal, Canada, is seeking a Trade Support role within their Global Business Service Unit. The successful candidate will model complex transactions, control information quality, and coordinate with Front and Back Offices. A Bachelor's Degree in finance is required, along with skills in Excel and VBA. The work environment is hybrid, promoting flexibility. This position offers competitive benefits, including vacation and health accounts.

Qualifications

• First experience in financial markets is needed, to master the financial products.
• Demonstrate initiative and be solutions oriented.
• Ability to prioritize and work in a dynamic, deadline-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Model complex Exotic transactions in the information system.
• Control quality and completeness of information entered.
• Coordinate between Front-Office and other support functions.

Skills

Excel

VBA

Financial Markets Knowledge

Inter-personal skills

Team Player

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Financial Markets

Job description

Reference 2600032A

Responsibilities

ABOUT THE JOB: The aim of Global Business Service Unit (GBSU) Canada is to deliver day-to-day services to Société Générale investment and corporate bank units and their clients to accelerate their transformation. GBSU differentiates itself from competitors with the pace of the agile transformation delivered, spreading the technology and data culture, shortening the decision-making process, and adopting a true industrial approach, leveraging on different teams either transversal or aligned to the different sub business units.

Within the Trade Support Unit department, of Operations direction, the service Trade Capture (Transaction Modeling) oversees booking transactions in the information systems under delegation of the Front Office.

Within Societe Generale, you will join the pole Global Banking & Investors Solutions (GBIS), in charge of activities of financing and investment banking, private banking, asset management and securities.

Our teams guarantee the quality and the reliability of transactions negotiated on all financial worldwide.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Modeling of complex Exotic transactions and negotiated events in the information system, under delegation of the Front Office.
• Control the quality and the completeness of the information entered.
• Analysis and regulation of the breaks raised by Middle-Office Control and other parties involved in the Front to Back chain.
• Coordination between the Front-Office and the other support functions (Middle-Office Control, Back-Office, Risk Department, Finance Department, …) on the processing of requests for information and problem solving.

Projects and Transversal Tasks

• Participation in the projects of security and reliability of the control framework.
• Participation in the impact analysis as part of development of new activities.
• Participation in the design and improvement of production tools in VBA and Python (Booking, Pricing, Communication).

Required Profile

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a major in finance or financial markets.
• A first experience in financial markets is needed, to master the financial products and the processes.
• Deep knowledge and practical skills in Excel, VBA and financial mathematics.
• Good inter-personal and partnering skills, a “team-player”.
• Demonstrate initiatives, solutions oriented.
• Ability to prioritize and work in a dynamic, deadline-focused environment.

Language

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Due to US Federal Securities law applying to this position, candidates who will apply for this position will be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

Why Join Us

Our Benefits

• Minimum of 20 Vacation days+ 4personal days
• Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
• Health spending($2,000/year) andpersonal spending($1,000/year)accountswith 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)

Fully sponsored virtualhealthcare assistanceandEmployee Assistance Programto you and your immediate family.

Various Employee Resource Groups(ERG) to engage withsuch as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.

Aculture of continuous developmentby encouraging our employees varioustraining programs(online training and coaching platform such as Coursera, GoFluent, Pluralsight, First Finance, and others).

Business Insight

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

Our Culture

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/).

D&I

Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate.
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents.
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients.

For more information about our D&I initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-diversity/).

Hybrid Work Environment

Societe Generale offers a hybrid work arrangement that offers employees the flexibility to work remotely, as well as on-site, in order to promote interaction and collaboration with colleagues while adhering to all SG standard protocols. Hybrid work arrangements vary based on business area. The applicable business lines will determine and communicate the work arrangements that best meet their business needs.