Graduate Trainee - Debt Capital Markets
Societe Generale
Responsibilities
This market leading Debt Capital Markets (DCM) team is responsible for addressing borrowers’ needs in terms of raising and managing capital in the debt capital markets. The client base for DCM includes corporate borrowers, financial institutions, the public sector, and sovereigns globally.
In terms of debt origination, DCM’s activity covers issuance of bonds across the capital structure, including senior and subordinated debt, covered bonds, green, sustainable, and sustainability-linked, in addition to ESG, balance sheet, capital and liability management advisory. DCM’s activity also covers transaction management advisory. We adopt a solutions-based approach to advising our clients and where relevant we collaborate closely with ratings advisory, debt solutions and derivative solutions teams to deliver a complete service to the borrower.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in enabling the team to:
- Build and manage strong and sustainable client relationships with target issuers in Australia and New Zealand, namely corporates and financial institutions
- Identify capital market trends and address clients’ needs in terms of raising and managing capital in the debt capital markets
- Provide best-in-class advisory to the client base
- Provide views on macro-economic trends and what that means for clients
- Represent DCM in all internal dialogues
Your main tasks will include:
- Generating pitch material that is clear, structured, compelling, and comprehensive in addressing clients’ needs
- Leading the preparation of marketing documents (market updates, peer analysis, secondary pricing performance, primary pricing indications, sales memorandums)
- Monitoring primary market developments (recent transactions, pipeline, and market rumors)
- Preparing the update of relevant capital markets data
- Assisting in the end-to-end execution of transactions
- Producing bespoke pieces of analysis for clients
- Performing regular research on latest product developments and potential/existing business opportunities