Graduate Program in Hong Kong

You will be part of the Global Market Risk team in Asia which covers Market activities in countries such as Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Singapore, South Korea, Japan, India and Australia. The department defines Risk appetite framework, methodologies for regulatory measures (Counterparty and Market Risks) and validates pricing and liquidity models. The department supervises, as second level of defense, global market activities through certification of market risk metrics and Profit/loss of different business lines in Asia

You will take on three eight-month rotations amongst the following teams:

For your first rotation, you will join a Metrics Monitoring and Certification team:

The team oversees risk metrics indicators production and certification. It monitors the market risk exposures of Global Market activities and provide independent PnL analysis by risk factors/strategy

For the second rotation, you join transversal Cross business team for Metrics Monitoring and Analysis:
The team has a double-objective of taking part of certification on global metrics and supporting directly
the chief risk officers (CROs) across Asia region. The metrics monitoring analyst manages regulatory
metrics computation, indicators consolidation and back-testing.

Depending on your profile, in third rotation you will join one of the following functions:

• Counterparty and Market Exposure
• Market and Counterparty Risk Framework
• Risk Design and Digital Office

Counterparty and Market Exposure has double mission of extracting relevant market information and conduct cross asset risk analysis. The cross-asset analyst contributes to key transversal topics, performs second level analysis through a cross asset control and reports high-level synthetic summaries to risk management direction.

Market and Counterparty Risk Framework analyses the activities and counterparties and design framework of limits/thresholds in accordance with the group risk appetite. It analyzes transactions and provide trades authorization. The team also defines measures to assess both Market and Counterparties risks and contributes to definition of regulatory models and valorization methods.

Risk Design and Digital Office is the digital laboratory of Risk department. The principal mission is to design tools of data analysis, identify market trends, detect metrics anomalies and propose innovative data and analysis tools to Risk analysts combining Technology expertise with Global market and Risk management knowledge

Your profile

We are looking for top-notched university graduates with the following attributes and competencies

• Good programming skills with modern development languages (Java/C#/Python…) is required
• Good Knowledge of rational database & No-SQL (Cassandra, Hadoop, Elastic Search) is a plus
• Experience in maintaining/contributing to open source projects will be appreciated
• Advanced knowledge in probability and statistics is required
• Prior experience in data-driven quantitative research will be an advantage
• Knowledge of research (R, SciKit) and machine learning (Tensor flow) framework is a plus
• Innovative and passionate about technology
• Open and inquisitive mind, strong interest in research
• Strong leadership potential and interpersonal skills
• Superior analytical and critical-thinking
• Self-motivated, mature, and possessing a strong drive for excellence
• Strong team work and communication skills
• Excellent command of English

You will take on two twelve-month rotations amongst the following teams.

IT Infrastructure Department
Global Technical Services
Cloud Infrastructure

IT infrastructure is one of the major stakes for the bank and is at the heart of Societe Generale group's strategy. Today, the Digital Transformation raises important challenges around IT Architecture, Infrastructure and Security. Many of these challenges are opportunities to imagine new experiences for our clients and new way to deliver IT services. GTS department plays a key role in the Digital Transformation.

You will be onboarded in the Cloud & Platform team that operates and maintains our on-premise Cloud Platform and that advises software engineering teams in how to best leverage the Cloud, both Public and Private.

• Support and operate our in-house developed Private Cloud Platform, including incident management and service restoration, and our connectivity to Public Cloud providers
• Monitor and manage the Platform capacity, and provision new hardware if required
• Propose and potentially implement service improvements, and follow up with the relevant Platform development teams
• Accompany our Business Applications development teams in better leveraging the Cloud, and advise them on how to change the architecture, design and operation of their applications

Finance, Risk & Market data Technology

Finance Risk and Market Data is a regional team with 80 people based in Hong Kong, covering the Asia Pacific region. You will be part of a dynamic regional team, dealing with major stakeholders including Business Lines, Finance/Risks teams. You will be assigned to a feature team, with the following responsibilities:

• Design and implement solutions that address user’s local requirements
• Collect and analyze customer requests into detailed stories by interacting with Product Owner /Business Analysts
• Develop code using Software Craftmanship best practices such as behavior/Test driven development, continuous integration/delivery/deployment, legacy refactoring tasks
• Develop code leveraging a diverse technology eco-system and deliver working software across multiple layers of the technology stack
• Participate in testing, deployment and production activities of the team to ensure production stability
• Support and maintain the portfolio of applications

Front Office Technology

As a Front Office Developer, you will be part of the IT team for market-making and will participate in the full lifecycle of software development (from requirement gathering to the implementation).

The team sits in the dealing room and interacts continuously with trading desks.

• Participate into front office applications development
• Study new business requests (gather user requirements, provide clear specifications, etc.)
• Design and implement the required changes
• Frequent (continuous) delivery of high-quality software via Test-Driven Development.
• Communicate and work closely with other members & front office users

Your profile

We are looking for top-notched university graduates with the following attributes and competencies

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Information System or similar
• Good programming skills with modern development languages (Java/C#/Python…) is required
• Curious, innovative and passionate about technology
• Strong leadership potential and interpersonal skills
• Superior analytical and critical thinking skills
• Self-motivated, mature, and possessing a strong drive for excellence
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• Excellent command of English