FIG Coverage within Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (“SGCIB”) is responsible for managing the Bank’s global business relationships with large financial institutions. The role you are applying to is in New York on the Banks Coverage team. Currently, there are about 35 clients within the Banks portfolio.

Bankers in FIG Coverage provide business lines within SGCIB and outside of SGCIB with access to client deal flow and assist in cross-selling all Societe Generale key global products. This is accomplished through client meetings with bank counterparts and business lines to pitch new business. Our goal is to develop business in accordance to Societe Generale’s high standards of marginal income, healthy returns and superior quality that meet the Bank's after-tax returns.

The business lines within SGCIB include: Corporate Credit, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Acquisition Finance, Equity Capital Markets (Public Issues and Private Placements, Share Repurchase), Strategic Equity Transactions (Structured Share Repurchase, hedging of equity exposures), Debt Capital Markets (Public Issues and Private Placements, High Yield when appropriate), Project Finance, Asset Finance, Export Finance, Securitization, Foreign Exchange hedging, Interest Rate and Commodity exposures, Credit Ratings Advisory, Loan Syndications, Deposits and other investments, Equity and Fixed Income Financing, and Pension Fund investments, Transaction banking (USD deposits, cahs clearing, Trade Finance, Receivables Finance).
SG product teams based outside of SGCIB include local banking services (loans, cash management, hedging, etc.) through the French and International network of local banks, Treasury/Liquidity & Cash Management, Vehicle Fleet Leasing and Management, and Securities Services.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Commercial Support:

• Preparation of Client Meetings Briefing memos and Call reports
• Pitch presentations (slide creation and binding)
• Pre-Screening / Support Memos (business cases and client profitability analysis)
• Interaction with business line product specialists on specific client initiatives
• Tracking of live deal and pitch communication for current and prospective clients
• Production of a quarterly thoughts piece
• Client profile development
• Special sector studies as needed

Compliance/KYC:

• Coordination of periodic Know Your Client reviews

• Coordination of reverse KYC on SG for our clients

Credit:

• Support to the Annual Reviews process (business comments, risk fraud forms)

Financial perfomance monitoring:

• Yearly budget, periodic income forecast, income correction campaigns on the portfolio
• Profitability analysis (advanced Excel modeling) for prospective transactions
• Various internal reports and operational Coverage team support
• Some potential ad hoc modeling (Three-statement, Discounted Cashflow, Merger, Consolidation)

A questionnaire will be provided to you in order to check your VIE (Société Générale and Business France) eligibility. For an efficient analysis of your application, please make sure to truthfully answer all the questions.

Kindly note that it is also mandatory to provide us with a formal proof of your M2 diploma validation before the assignment start date. No VIE mission will start without this document.

*Grade sheets are not accepted as justification of the diploma.