Front Office Support / Developer - Trainee

Mission

Based in Japan, you will be the IT point of contact for FIC (Fixed Income and Currencies) Front Office and Middle Office. You will be seating in the dealing room with sales and traders. You will work closely with them on their daily tasks involving electronic markets, risk analysis, pricers and trade booking systems.

Requiring solid technical skills, you'll put them to good use to make the most of our platform. Initiative and team play are strongly encouraged and rewarded. This job requires to get things done. We will rely on your ideas and solutions

• The candidate must be fluent in Japanese and English.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills:

• Curiosity, Autonomy, Initiative. There are lots of things to discover, documentation to read, solutions to test, and more generally ground to cover. Société Générale's IT framework is well developed, and requires a lot of time to get fluent with. Being able to work out on your own what needs to be done, and ask for help when stuck, is key.
• Enthusiasm and Communication. You'll interact with many other departments and teams: Front Office, Middle Office, IT Infrastructure, Audit, Security, etc. Each one of them have their enterprise culture and methods. Embracing it is important.
• Willingness to learn Investment Banking business. IT is at the core of the investment banking business. All other departments rely on the IT system for their daily job. Understanding what these jobs are exactly is fundamental.
• Sense of Responsibility. You will work on automatic trading systems. Reliability is a must, and traders will entrust you with it. Problems must be owned and solved.
• Able to work under pressure. You will be seating very close to the trading desk, and as such, you will be part of the action. This is a challenging, but very rewarding, environment.

Wished Technical Skills

• PowerShell / Scripting
• Database (SQL and/or NoSQL)
• VBA, Python

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Founded in 1864, we have been playing a vital role in the economy for over 150 years. With more than 148,000 employees based in 76 countries worldwide, we accompany 32 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial strength with a strategy of sustainable growth.

Our expertise in the Asia Pacific region ranges from Corporate & Investment Banking (Advisory, Financing and Global Markets) to Asset Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Cash Management Services. Leveraging on our formidable global footprint, we serve corporates, financial institutions, and the public sector. With our regional headquarters in Hong Kong, we operate in 11 countries across Asia Pacific, employing over 6,600 employees. You can find us in Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Mumbai, Sydney and other locations in the region.