Trainee – UK Corporates FX & Rates

Start your career in Global Markets with a front-row seat to financial markets and corporate client advisory.

Are you a numerically strong, commercially curious graduate looking to break into investment banking? Join our UK Corporates FX & Rates Sales team and gain hands-on experience supporting major corporate clients with foreign exchange and interest rate risk solutions.

About the Role

As a Trainee within our UK Corporate Sales desk, you’ll work closely with experienced sales professionals covering leading UK and multinational corporates. You’ll help deliver tailored risk management solutions across FX and interest rates while developing a strong understanding of financial markets.

This is a unique opportunity to gain exposure to front-office activity within a fast-paced Global Markets environment, combining analytics, client interaction and market insight.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll play an integral support role to the sales team, including:

• Preparing market updates, client presentations and marketing materials
• Supporting the pricing of FX and interest rate derivative solutions
• Conducting market and client research to support business development
• Liaising with key stakeholders across the business, including Trading, Structuring, DCM, and Relationship Managers
• Coordinating with support functions (Legal, Compliance, Middle & Back Office)
• Assisting with KYC, onboarding and account opening processes
• Monitoring and maintaining client data, deal pipelines and internal systems
• Helping resolve payment and confirmation queries
• Enhancing and maintaining Excel-based tools and spreadsheets

You’ll also collaborate across other Corporate Sales desks in London, gaining broad exposure across product areas.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience

• A minimum 2:1 degree (or equivalent)
• Interest in financial markets, FX and interest rates
• Strong analytical and mathematical ability with attention to detail
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work under pressure

Highly Valued

• Previous experience or internships within financial services
• Coding or technical skills (advantageous but not essential)

Key Attributes

• Curious, proactive and self-motivated
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset
• Adaptable and able to think quickly in a dynamic environment
• Confident interacting with both internal stakeholders and clients

Why Join Us?

• Work within a global, multi-asset platform serving leading institutional and corporate clients
• Gain exposure to real-time markets and live transactions
• Learn directly from experienced sales professionals in a client-facing environment
• Build a strong foundation for a career in Global Markets or Investment Banking

Our Culture

We are driven by:

• Team spirit – succeeding together
• Innovation – encouraging new ideas
• Responsibility – acting with integrity
• Commitment – delivering excellence
• Client focus – building lasting relationships

Apply Now

If you’re ready to launch your career in financial markets and gain exposure to FX & Rates sales, we’d love to hear from you.

People join for the impact they can have on us. They stay for the impact we have on them. A flatter structure offers visibility and exposure beyond that of our competitors, so you know our names, and we know yours. It's personable, human, and inspires success through passion. By encouraging open mindedness and a willingness to share ideas, we have adapted to market changes and thrived through innovation. Bringing words like “hard work” and “dedication” together with “community” and “respect” has enabled us to work collaboratively and build our future together. We call this Team Spirit and it's what makes us different. It's what makes you different.

If you feel you have the required experience and qualifications, then please apply to the SG Resourcing Team, and we will manage your application. At Société Générale, we believe our people are our strength and are core to the success of our business. As such, we search for, recruit and appoint the best available person on the basis of aptitude and ability, regardless of sex, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, pregnancy, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or gender identity.