Trainee: Chief Risk Officer Assistant

Responsibilities: 

• Understand Front Office business / trading strategies, our products and models of Fixed Income and Equity trading business including flow and exotic products
• Perform Risk Analysis for the trading at regular or ad-hoc basis
• Monitor and explain Risk Metrics breaches against the defined limits / thresholds
• Periodical communication with front office to obtain sufficient understanding of trading positions and strategies, and to monitor the risk taking status
• Daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of monitoring and analysis result
• Monitor market movements and their impacts on the business performance: developing notably income attribution and performance analysis
• Analyse on results, analysis of disputes and discrepancies
• Optimization and automation of BAU processes, including design and maintenance of EUC tools
• Preparation of reports for internal or external stakeholders, including regulatory reporting
• Perform ad-hoc tasks requested by internal or external stakeholders
• Cooperation with regional risk production team to solve any issues in the course of daily risk monitoring

• Innovation - Thinking out of the box/Creativity: I encourage and demonstrate positive out of the box thinking
• Commitment - Sustainability: I strive to develop my skills and knowledge
• 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 - Technology: I adopt new technologies in the solutions and projects I work on
• Language - English and Japanese - proficient
• Technical Skill - PC and IT skill or experience
• Education and knowledge - Fundamentals of Finance and Economics, Basic knowledge of financial markets and relevant products 

Company Description

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Founded in 1864, we have been playing a vital role in the economy for over 150 years. With more than 133,000 employees based in 61 countries worldwide, we accompany 32 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial strength with a strategy of sustainable growth.

ASIA-PACIFIC (ASIA), as one of the Business Units of Societe Generale, operates in 12 locations across the Asia Pacific region, employing over 2,500 employees with the regional headquarter located in Hong Kong. Our activities here are centered on Societe Generale's Global Banking & Investor Solutions pole (GBIS), a major growth engine for the Group and a key pillar of Societe Generale's universal banking model. Our expertise in Asia Pacific ranges from Corporate & Investment Banking (Advisory, Financing and Global Markets) to Asset Management, Global Transaction Banking and specialized financial services like Equipment & Vendor Finance and Vehicle Leasing & Fleet Management. In addition, Societe Generale's Global Solution Centre (SGGSC) in Bangalore and Chennai offers customized business solutions to the Societe Generale Group globally including ASIA.

Department Description

Japan Risk division covers supervision of all risk areas as LoD2 (defense line) function, e.g. market risk, credit risk, operational risk and liquidity risk, of all operating entities in Japan, Societe Generale Securities Japan Limited (SGKK), Societe Generale Tokyo Branch (SGTB) and SG Haussmann Japan Limited (SGHJ). The division is responsible for market risk management as primary monitoring function including production of periodical reports to entity management and risk data analysis in addition to above supervisory roles. 
The market risk analyst focuses on fixed income, equity derivatives or treasury activity, and its entity specific production, analysis, comments and preparation of market risk report and relevant regulatory reporting. It is also responsible for facilitating communication with trading desks to conduct ad-hoc reporting and analysis associated to business performance and risk consumption. In addition to the key roles of market risk analysis, it is required to perform compilation of risk reporting and data analysis relating to counterparty credit risk and operational risk incurred from trading activities including analysis of Central Counterparties in the course of daily duties.