STRUCTURED PRODUCTS ENGINEER

Hello, my name is Charles. I work for Societe Generale, in the Global Banking & Advisory division, in asset financing services. They consist in financing our major clients' investment expenditures.

My role is to manage the origination and structuring of complex, tailored transactions. They are designed to meet our clients’ needs, using a high level of financial engineering and expertise. They also concern ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) areas, which are part of the Shift initiative to put ESG at the core of our business. For example, solutions have been implemented lately to finance our clients' energy performance investments.

My day-to-day mission at the bank is to offer financing and investment solutions tailored to our clients, in the context of their investment expenditures, their ecological transition and to best respond to their strategic needs.

The core skill to do my job is the ability to adapt and innovate, to discuss a new subject while building on what already exists, and working in an environment of complex constraints, both for our client and for us.

Working in asset financing at Societe Generale is a very exciting job. There are diverse missions, with huge stakes, clients with different needs, and a dynamic and challenging atmosphere. So we have the opportunity to have a real impact on our clients' development and on the real economy, in France, in Europe and all over the world. It is very rewarding.

What I discovered at Societe Generale is that the banking sector is not limited to working in a branch or in a trading floor. In the Global Banking & Advisory division there is a great diversity of jobs, different asset classes, different financing techniques. It makes it easy to consider mobility within the Group, within the bank, including in multiple geographical locations.