V.I.E. Project Portfolio Management

The GTPS (Global Transaction & Payment Services) division in the Americas offers a comprehensive suite of transaction banking products and services, including cash clearing, cash management, trade finance, and working capital services. These services cater to corporate clients such as US multinational corporations and Société Générale affiliates. The division is managed by the Head of GTPS Americas and comprises four Business Line front offices, a Front Office Product Manager for Payments and Cash Management, Sales Support, Implementation, Onboarding, Client Services Teams, and COO & Project Teams. GTPS Americas supports a complex and regulated client environment, requiring close coordination across business, operations, IT, risk, and compliance functions.

This role is within the Project Team which itself is within the COO team. The Project Team is responsible for managing the portfolio of medium and long term "change the bank" initiatives that result in enhanced product offerings to GTPS Americas clients.

The role offers exposure to:
• End‑to‑end governance of large‑scale banking transformation programs, from demand intake through prioritization and execution tracking
• Regular interaction with senior GTPS stakeholders in the US and Paris through governance forums and project reviews
• Budgeting, prioritization, and arbitration processes in a global bank.

Support the Project Portfolio Manager in the day‑to‑day governance of GTPS Americas’ change portfolio, with progressively increasing autonomy on defined workstreams. The role requires strong structuring, analytical rigor, and the ability to synthesize information across multiple initiatives. Depending on priorities, the VIE will contribute to initiatives such as payments modernization, instant payments (FedNow / RTP) readiness, platform enhancements, or regulatory‑driven change impacting transaction banking services.

• Collect, structure, and consolidate project demand across GTPS Americas business lines
• Develop and maintain the GTPS Americas project roadmap, including materials supporting prioritization and arbitration discussions
• Contribute to project cost assessments
• Track and analyze project budget consumption, highlighting variances and risks
• Liaise and coordinate with Paris-based project teams
• Maintain project documentation
• Prepare inputs and materials for Steering Committees and operational governance forums (SteerCo / OpCo)
• Participate and contribute in various project status and update meetings
• Contribute to annual budget preparation exercises
• Monitor project progress including expected deliverables from other teams

• Produce concise and accurate project status reporting for senior management

  
  

A questionnaire will be provided to you in order to check your VIE (Société Générale and Business France) eligibility. For an efficient analysis of your application, please make sure to truthfully answer all the questions.  

Please note that it is mandatory to provide us a formal proof of your M2 diploma validation before the assignment start date. No VIE mission will start without this document. *Grade sheets are not accepted as justification of diploma.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

To facilitate the examination of your application by our English-speaking managers, we thank you for applying in English.

Studies & experience:

• Graduate with a Master degree from Business/Engineering School or University with a specialization in Business Administration

•  Familiar with Global Transaction Banking is a plus

Language skills:

• Must be fluent in English. Communicate in a clear and articulate way, adapt communication to the audience

Technical, operational & soft skills:

• Demonstrated interest in project management, transformation, or change initiatives in a complex environment
• Proficient command of MS Office
• Comfortable with organizational complexity, high pressure environments, and rapid change

• Curious, proactive, and comfortable asking questions in a complex and ambiguous environment.

The VIE assignment in a nutshell

This VIE in New York is to begin as soon as possible, but you need to plan 3 months between your application date and the beginning of your VIE assignment. It will last 18 months.

The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France’s eligibility criteria, opened to candidates under 28 and from the member states of the European Economic Space. For further information (including your financial indemnities), please see Mon VIE-VIA Business France.

As soon as you arrive, you will be integrated into our teams and will learn every day alongside our experts, who will support you in your tasks. Gradually, you will become more independent in your projects, 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.

At the end of your VIE, various opportunities could be offered to you, in France and abroad.

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!

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.