Trainee Business Management Analyst - Market Technology & Operations (fixed-term)

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Société Générale CIB is seeking a PMO/Operations support professional to help govern the Prime Services & Clearing Ops & IT transformation portfolio. You will coordinate reporting, milestones, and stakeholder communications across multiple projects and workstreams.

You will also assist with administrative coordination, town halls, employee engagement, and continuous improvement initiatives, enabling effective decision-making and timely delivery in a fast-paced global environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of Excel and MS Office suite.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Good communication, teamwork and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Produce ad hoc management reports, presentations, and analysis for senior management decisions.
• Provide PMO support across a portfolio of transformation and strategic initiatives, including planning, milestone tracking, governance, and reporting.
• Support annual planning and budget monitoring activities.
• Organise and support town halls, leadership meetings, and employee engagement activities.
• Draft and distribute communications on behalf of the management team.
• Assist with general business management and administrative activities for Prime Services & Clearing Ops & IT.

Job description

Description of the Department

The Prime Services business provides global execution, clearing and financing solutions to a wide range of customers across multiple regions and asset classes.

Responsibilities

Description of the Department

The Prime Services business provides global execution, clearing and financing solutions to a wide range of customers across multiple regions and asset classes.

The GBTO teams provide operational and IT support services to the global business covering activities such as client lifecycle management, global execution services, trade settlement and clearing, reconciliations, collateral management, payments, risk management and fees. Main processing hubs are in London, Chicago, Bangalore and Chennai, and a smaller presence in Paris and Asia.

All roles at Société Générale CIB are expected to demonstrate a strong commitment to effective risk assessment and management, sound judgement, and speaking up when noticing behaviours or outcomes creating unintended risk. You will be expected to operate with integrity, manage risk proactively in day-to-day activities, log and

Summary Of The Key Purposes Of The Role

• To assist the Global Transformation & Business Manager of Prime Services & Clearing (PSC) Ops & IT with the coordination, governance, reporting, and execution of the transformation portfolio across the PSC organisation.
• To act as PMO support for strategic and transformation initiatives, ensuring effective planning, reporting, action tracking, governance, and stakeholder communication across multiple projects and workstreams.

To assist the management team with other responsibilities such as:

• Administrative coordination, management reporting, and business support activities.
• Town halls, engagement events, communications, and employee engagement initiatives.
• Continuous improvement initiatives.

Summary Of Responsibilities

• Produce ad hoc management reports, presentations, and analysis to support decision-making by senior management.
• Support annual planning exercises and budget monitoring activities as required.
• Provide PMO support across a portfolio of transformation and strategic initiatives, including project planning, milestone tracking, governance, and reporting.
• Organise and support town halls, leadership meetings, and employee engagement activities.
• Draft and distribute communications on behalf of the management team, including newsletters, announcements, presentations, and event materials.
• Assist with general business management and administrative activities to support the effective running of the Prime Services & Clearing Ops & IT organisation.

Required

Profile required

Competencies

• The ability to assimilate knowledge quickly, an inquiring mind and an eye for detail, a sense of responsibility coupled with a sense of urgency.
• Good communication skills, teamwork, initiative, and analytical skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel. Good working knowledge of the MS Office suite of applications.
• Knowledge of business intelligence, collaboration, and AI-powered tools (e.g. Power BI, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot and other generative AI solutions). Demonstrated interest in applying AI to automate routine tasks, improve data analysis, enhance reporting, and support project management activities.
• Demonstrated risk mindset: proactive identification and escalation of risk, sound judgement under pressure, and willingness to speak up and challenge constructively
• Demonstrate a strong risk culture by balancing commercial objectives with sound judgment and client outcomes

Why join us

People join for the impact they can have on us. They stay for the impact we have on them. A flatter structure offers visibility and exposure beyond that of our competitors, so you know our names, and we know yours. It's personable, human, and inspires success through passion. By encouraging open mindedness and a willingness to share ideas, we have adapted to market changes and thrived through innovation. Bringing words like “hard work” and “dedication” together with “community” and “respect” has enabled us to work collaboratively and build our future together. We call this Team Spirit and it's what makes us different. It's what makes you different.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we believe our people are our strength and are core to the success of our business. As such, we search for, recruit and appoint the best available person on the basis of aptitude and ability, regardless of sex, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, pregnancy, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or gender identity.