TRAINEE: Cross-Asset Risk Officer

1st year:

• Risk reporting and reviews for SG ASIA senior management.
• Market intelligence
• Execute Market Risk regulatory examinations and projects
• Review relevant information from periodic reporting to detect trends and assist in performing a cross-asset control.
• Develop key tolls to produce metrics links to overshoot statistics, limits in place, transversal graphs and overall risk metrics deployed at Asia level and contribute to simplification.        

2nd year:

• Contribute actively to key transversal topics such as income attribution, independent price verification, VaR Back-testing summaries, and troubleshooting.
• Second level follow up on market and counterparty risk exposure, specific, crossed risk studies on market and CCR exposure.

Candidates with outstanding performance will be considered for early conversion to permanent roles.

What We Offer

Your life doesn’t revolve around your job. So, find the job that revolves around your life.

The Trainee role is a full time 24-month contract with Societe Generale where you will have access to a diverse range of training materials to help you succeed, covering various aspects of businesses, including but not limited to technical skills, leadership development, communication skills, client service and relationship management. To be eligible, please ensure you have completed your qualification and will be available to work full time for the duration of Trainee contract.

• Hold a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree in mathematics, Finance, Engineering or similar.
• Strong knowledge of the market and the instruments of the business line oversee.
• Good understanding of capital market and in particular strategies and products
• Understanding of valuation and risk of equity and fixed income derivative products.
• Programming skill (VBA, Python) is highly preferred.
• Pro-active, swift, analytical, rigorous, able to multitask and work under pressure, team player.
• Good communication and organizational skills, strong sense of responsibility.
• Fluent English is mandatory.

Behavioral Skills

• Client - Risk: I strive to satisfy clients while taking into account risks for the company
• Team Spirit - Collective mindset: I favour the team’s interest over my own results
• Team Spirit - Open mindset: I listen and share my views and my expertise in an open mode
• Innovation - Simplification: I make things & ideas simple
• Responsibility - Performance: I strive for high performance
• Responsibility - Risk awareness: I am constantly on the lookout for risks 

OUR CULTURE:

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. Please visit our APAC career website: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/building-your-career-with/ for more information.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION (DE&I):

Our mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

Check out our DE&I initiatives: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/

Department Description

The market risk team for the ASIA region is part of the ASIA Risk division: RISQ/ASI and the global market risk team: RISQ/RMA, headquartered in Paris. All strategic decisions are made with the full cooperation of both teams RISQ/ASI and RISQ/RMA, and adhere to Directive 36 Appendix 3 on Market, Liquidity and Structural Risks. The Market Risk department oversights for the ASIA CRO and SG Group Risk Division Market Liquidity and Structural Risks in the ASIA region, designs regulatory models and validates pricing and liquidity models.

The Cross-Asset Risk officer manages for the Market Risk department in Asia the transversal and/or multi-asset analysis. He/She reports to the Head of Market Risks in ASIA (RISQ/ASI/RMA) and functionally to the Head of RISQ/RMA/CME.