eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Société Générale - US

• Location

  New York City, NY

• Compensation

  Commensurate with experience

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  23 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  569362

At the cutting edge of financial research, SG's products linked to stocks and indexes feature innovative equity structures, fitting market conditions and clients' expectations.

The available position is an integral part of the Middle Office Trade & Event Supporting Unit which will strengthen the efficiencies and processing of the group to support the Front Office business line.

More specifically, this position is part of the listed team in the Arbitrage & Equity Finance group, in charge of processing buy and sell trades along with lending and borrowing trades for listed products such as Stocks, Funds, Futures or Listed Options. The main focus of this position will be to manage the ADR Arbitrage business line.

The positions will be located on the trading floor.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Core Responsibilities include:

-Lead and manage the process of insertion of trades and trade events done by the Front Office.

-Solving issues with the different parties in order to ensure that the operations will settle on time.

-Responsible for making sure the booking is correct running P&L and Risk Analysis after booking complex trades -Assisting the traders on critical points (i.e. dividends, short positions, following corporate actions, issue and expiry of products).

-Constant review of the processes linked to deal management in order to automate and secure them when possible.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required/Must have:

-Strong computer skills: Advanced Programming level Required in VBA -Knowledge of equity derivative products (i.e. actions, indexes, warrants, equity linked swaps...) -Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills -Reactive, detail-oriented, driven to work in a fast learning environment -Strong project management skills

COMPETENCIES

Required/Must have:

-Strong interpersonal skills

-Handle various ad-hoc requests.

-Prone to take initiatives

-Reactive, detail-oriented, driven to work in a fast learning environment -Strong interpersonal, communication and partnering skills -Ability to prioritize and work in a dynamic, deadline-focused environment -Self-motivated and proactive; willingness & a strong desire to learn -Good inter-personal, partnering and communication skills. A "team-player"

-Supervisory and management skills, a plus

PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE

Required/Must have:

-Qualifications include excellent analytical and financial skills, familiarity with the equity derivatives. Business related experience preferred, but not required.

EDUCATION

Required/Must have:

-BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics or other quantitative subjects (Financial Engineering, etc) is preferred. Master's desirable.

-1 to 3 years experience in trading support of equity derivatives.

-Series 7 and 63 a plus, though not required.