TRAINEE: Vanilla Middle Office

The Trainee role is a full time 24-month contract with Societe Generale where you will have access to a diverse range of training materials to help you succeed, covering various aspects of businesses, including but not limited to technical skills, leadership development, communication skills, client service and relationship management. To be eligible, please ensure you have completed your qualification and will be available to work full time for the duration of Trainee contract Responsibilities In your 1st year, you will be exploring various products and activities across the region with details below Product scope: Vanilla products across Equity, Rates, Commodity and FX, including listed derivatives, cash equities, bonds and FX spot/forwards Work closely with Front Office and the different support functions (MO, BO, Risk, Finance, ITEC) in order to: Assist with trade capture of vanilla flow products in internal systems, ensuring trades are booked accurately and in a timely manner Push for automation, simplification and convergence of the processes Assist FO on their specific requests with effective and innovative solutions Improve/control quality of database inputs Ensure booking timeliness; provide justifications for any late bookings and amendments Follow-up of transversal issues (systems, financial, accounting ...)] Participate in projects for the security and reliability of the control system Draft / update procedures linked to sensitive processes and controls After gaining more knowledge from 1st year, you can also expect to explore more different area within the Vanilla Middle Office and be able to come up with more comprehensive solutions & enhance existing processes with below examples: Contribute to automation governance on Asia scope: Identify regularly automation opportunity In partnership with IT teams, engage in developments of control tools Participate in impact analysis as part of the development of new activities, including participation in New Product Committee preparation Participate in the production of risk indicators (KRI) or performance indicators (KPI) of the team's activity Contribute to regular error rate governance on Asia scope. Analyze error rate concentration and help identifying root-cause and remediation action plan React in a timely manner to incidents and develop action plan for the long term