Senior Sales Global Transaction Banking

Mission: 

Société Générale is a universal banking group based on three main pillars; French Retail Banking & Insurance, Global Banking and Investor Services (GBIS), and International Retail, Mobility and Leasing Services. We are some 110,000 colleagues across locations in 58 countries serving nearly 30m customers. Société Générale has been present in the Nordics since 1982 and today our Nordic hub for Corporate & Investment Banking is located on Biblioteksgatan in Stockholm. The Stockholm office hosts more than 25 professionals covering the region, active within Global Banking & Advisory and Global Markets. Our local activities are supported by sector, product, trading, and support teams based in Paris, London, Brussels and Frankfurt.

GTB is organized with its main hub in Paris and with local teams across most GBIS locations globally as well as the International Retail locations. GTB integrates all expertise and services required to support the daily transactional activities of major economic and financial actors. Services provided cover payments, trade and working capital solutions with presence across Europe as well as in mature and emerging markets worldwide. Currently, GTB for the Nordic region is managed from Brussels and Amsterdam.

We now intend to open a new role and recruit a Senior Sales Executive based in Stockholm to be responsible for and further develop our GTB activities across the Nordic region. The position will be based in Stockholm and will report to the Head of the Global Transaction Banking, based in Amsterdam, and locally to the Country Officer.

You will work closely with the local Client Coverage team in Stockholm.  Within Global Transaction Banking, your product teams for Cash Management, Trade Finance, and Working Capital are based in Brussels and in Amsterdam, with further specialists based in Paris. You will also be part of a community of colleagues with similar senior sales roles across all GTB locations.

The Stockholm office also hosts professionals from Global Markets, SG Bernstein, Compliance, Human Resources, and Finance / Operations, offering a collaborative and cross‑business working environment.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Develop the GTB business with a strong focus on Cash Management, Trade Finance, and Working Capital solutions

• Manage existing Nordic clients and alongside the Coverage bankers actively prospect new clients

• Take responsibility from origination through to full implementation

• Work closely with Nordic Coverage teams and GTB product specialists. Collaborate closely with Relationship Coverage teams (GLBA) to ensure first‑class client service and jointly define client strategies

• Lead and deliver responses to RFPs by assessing client needs and proposing effective and competitive solutions

• Conduct strategic advisory meetings and calls with priority clients and prospects

• Maintain effective and seamless cooperation with key internal stakeholders, including Credit, Compliance, Legal, and Operations

• Conduct regular client visits; business travel is an integral part of the role, subject to Global Travel Guidelines and budget

• Ensure that the global GTB strategy for assigned client groups is shared and implemented in close coordination with GTB Sales teams in other locations

• Share comprehensive client knowledge, business strategy insights, and relationship status (including credit considerations) with colleagues

• Contribute to the evolution of GTB offerings by integrating country‑specific requirements and sharing local market developments and trends

• Ensure strict compliance with the GTB Risk Appetite Framework across the portfolio, including country and sector limits

• Act within delegated authorities, as applicable

• Ensure that all transactions within the portfolio are executed smoothly, meeting standards for client service, profitability, security, and risk management, in line with sustainability objectives

Studies & experience:

• Strong banking background with at least 10yrs experience working with international companies and organisations, including experience with Global Transaction Banking

Language skills:

• Mandatory: Fluent English (written and spoken)

• Additional languages: Any Nordic language is an advantage but not a requirement

Technical, operational & Soft skills:

• Client segments within scope for the role include Corporates, Non-Bank FI’s, Fintech/PSP and Financial Institutions

• Strong ability to identify business opportunities and cross‑sell GTB solutions

• Demonstrated commercial drive with a strong performance orientation

• Extended network and market knowledge around the Nordic Treasury and Corporate Community

• Strong ethics, integrity, and risk awareness

• Innovation‑oriented mindset

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field

• Proactive, engaged, and with a positive mindset in a performance-based environment

• Strong analytical and interpretive skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under time pressure

• High level of discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information

• Strong attention to detail

• Structured and solution‑oriented problem‑solving

• Contribute positively to a culture focused on performance, responsibility and well-being

Team Spirit, Responsibility, Innovation, Engagement. These are the values that guide us in being at our best - and we imagine you share them with us.

Société Générale Sweden Branch is a multi-category bank offering every employee the possibility to have several careers in a professional career path. Internal mobility and training are two core areas we focus on, in a dynamic, prosperous and evolving context.

We offer you an exciting, dynamic and positive workplace in our newly renovated premises in central Stockholm. Being a newly established office, we benefit from an energetic and creative “pioneer” spirit, offering a unique possibility to influence and contribute to the development and tailoring of our business and client relations. We welcome entrepreneurs with ideas and a solution seeking mindset and we imagine you share our belief that by working together we will achieve great things. We are proud of our staff benefits programme focused on health and well being, our personal development possibilities and last but not the least, our great People with their strong sense of team spirit. At Societe Generale we care about each other and the world around us, for a sustainable future.

At Societe Generale, 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 on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

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