Graduate Trainee – Debt Capital Markets

Major Accountabilities/Principal Responsibilities:

Join Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) as a Graduate Trainee in Sydney, Australia within our Investment Banking (IBD) business line in Debt Capital Markets. We are currently looking for a Graduate Trainee – Debt Capital Markets to join us on a full-time fixed term basis for 24 months. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team and get hands-on experience within a fast-paced, results focused, global organization.  The successful candidate will gain experience in all stages of a capital markets transaction and will have an active role in a client facing team. This includes having exposure to a working in a fast-moving industry, where the scope of work will cover the wide range of a financing business line activity, from marketing and origination through to execution and closing.

This market leading Debt Capital Markets (DCM) team is responsible for addressing borrowers’ needs in terms of raising and managing capital in the debt capital markets. The client base for DCM includes corporate borrowers, financial institutions, the public sector, and sovereigns globally.

In terms of debt origination, DCM’s activity covers issuance of bonds across the capital structure, including senior and subordinated debt, covered bonds, green, sustainable, and sustainability-linked, in addition to ESG, balance sheet, capital and liability management advisory. DCM’s activity also covers transaction management advisory.  We adopt a solutions-based approach to advising our clients and where relevant we collaborate closely with ratings advisory, debt solutions and derivative solutions teams to deliver a complete service to the borrower.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in enabling the team to:

• Build and manage strong and sustainable client relationships with target issuers in Australia and New Zealand, namely corporates and financial institutions
• Identify capital market trends and address clients’ needs in terms of raising and managing capital in the debt capital markets
• Provide best-in-class advisory to the client base
• Provide views on macro-economic trends and what that means for clients
• Represent DCM in all internal dialogues

Your main tasks will include:

• Generating pitch material that is clear, structured, compelling, and comprehensive in addressing clients’ needs
• Leading the preparation of marketing documents (market updates, peer analysis, secondary pricing performance, primary pricing indications, sales memorandums)
• Monitoring primary market developments (recent transactions, pipeline, and market rumours)
• Preparing the update of relevant capital markets data
•  Assisting in the end-to-end execution of transactions
• Producing bespoke pieces of analysis for clients
• Performing regular research on latest product developments and potential/existing business opportunities

Qualifications, Experience & Knowledge Required:

• University degree in a relevant discipline (Law, Commerce, Finance, Accounting or Engineering)
• Post graduate qualifications considered favorably
• No previous experience necessary however previous DCM or Investment Banking experience would be considered favorably
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to articulate complex concepts in both written and verbal format

Behavioral Competencies Required:

•  Ability to manage self in prioritizing tasks and managing competing deadlines
• Ability to work within a dynamic environment with stakeholders across the fixed income chain from Sydney to Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and New York
• Working (including remotely) with people from diverse, international backgrounds
• Ability to work in a small team and take ownership of responsibilities
• Fast learning, flexible with an appetite to learn

Functional Relationships:

Internal: staff from business divisions and support functions locally, regionally, and globally    

External: clients and external advisors

Founded by a group of entrepreneurs in 1864 “to promote the development of trade and industry in France”, Societe Generale is today one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, and committed to the positive transformations of society and the economy.

Active in the real economy for over 160 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,500 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions.

Societe Generale has been present in Australia since 1981. Located in Sydney, it provides financing and advisory, as well as global markets solutions. Leveraging the strength of its client coverage and leadership in structured finance together with product and service offerings such as debt capital markets and asset-backed products, Societe Generale supports its Australian wholesale clients in their financing and advisory needs and serves its global clients who wish to access the Australian market with global banking services. Societe Generale also provides its global markets solutions by offering futures execution and clearing, equity derivatives sales and structured product distribution.

Working with us means being part of an exciting collective vision: “Building together, with our clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions”. Here, you can challenge yourself in a stimulating, flexible and inclusive workplace with numerous career prospects. You can make a positive impact in the societies where we operate and evolve in a people-oriented workplace. With us, you can merge your career aspirations with your personal commitments through the values that bring us together: Commitment, Innovation, Responsibility and Team Spirit. Societe Generale actively encourages internal and international mobility, offering staff at all stages of their career the opportunity to explore new functional and geographic opportunities.