IT Business Analyst with French
Responsibilities
Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) acts as a business solution center for Societe Generale, one of the largest European financial groups. If you are looking for a great career opportunity within the IT world, then you are in the right place.
Our IT Filiere has over 800 IT professionals, delivering services on four perimeters: Retail Banking, Security and Infrastructure, Internal Support Applications and Investment Banking. And our team is ready to expand and find new awesome colleagues to embark on this journey.
The “Arrêtés des comptes” team is part of the IT department supporting the French Retail Banking division of Société Générale. You will join a team responsible for calculating and managing interest and commissions for individual and professional clients.
We are looking for a skilled Business Analyst to play a key role in managing the application lifecycle, from ideation to post-production support, while contributing to the reliability and performance of a critical banking process. In this role, you will go beyond analysis to help shape, optimize, and enable solutions. You will join a team where your ability to navigate complexity will have a direct impact on client satisfaction and operational success.
Responsibilities:
Ensure that every business request is transformed into clear, actionable, and value-adding solutions.
Act as the voice of the business within the IT landscape, helping to prioritize the product backlog and deliver effective solutions for incidents and application-related issues.
Contribute across all project phases, including scoping, design, estimation, testing, and deployment.
Write clear functional specifications and user stories, and maintain a well-prioritized product backlog.
Facilitate solution design workshops and collaborate with developers to estimate effort.
Support the testing team in defining and executing the test strategy.
Work in an Agile environment, partnering closely with stakeholders and the delivery team to maximize product value and support effective sprint ceremonies.
Bring Scrum Master capabilities, or a strong willingness to grow into the role, by facilitating team collaboration, removing blockers, and supporting continuous improvement.
Lead or actively contribute to project committees and drive follow-up actions through to completion.
Profile required
Degree in IT, business, or a related field.
Proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally in a banking or financial services environment, with exposure to Product Owner responsibilities.
Excellent communication skills in French, both written and spoken.
Comfortable engaging with both business and technical stakeholders.
Ability to work comfortably in technical environments, with basic knowledge of SQL or a similar language.
Hands-on practice with Agile methodology, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and collaboration in cross-functional teams.
Scrum Master capabilities or a clear desire to take on this role in support of team effectiveness and delivery excellence.
Strong autonomy and emotional intelligence, with the ability to take ownership while fostering collaboration.
Ability to synthesize the big picture while remaining detail-oriented when execution requires it.
Ability to anticipate obstacles, suggest improvements, and build forward-looking plans.
Nice to have:
Experience working on banking IT projects.
Previous exposure to mainframe technologies.
Previous experience as a Product Owner or in a hybrid Business Analyst / Product Owner role.
Why join us
Here, you will find a flexible workplace and culture, autonomy, constant learning opportunities, dynamism, and talented people, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.
Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:
competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus;
preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance;
wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget;
office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs;
various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;
9-to-5 workday and flexible work from home/office environment;
additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave;
learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans;
unlimited access to various eLearning resources.
Business insight
We are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years, or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA.
If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful daily and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!
Still hesitating?
You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.
We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual or gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.