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Junior Financial Analyst

Montreal, Quebec
Junior
full_time

Top Benefits

Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
Health spending ($2,000/year) and personal spending ($1,000/year) accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)

About the role

Reference 25000CPE

Responsibilities ABOUT THE JOB: The Finance Department of Global Banking and Investor Solutions (GBIS) is a global organization with a local presence. Our core mission in the Americas involves delivering sound financial reports, supporting Business Units, Service Units and General Management with financial and strategic steering, effectively scrutinize business plans, and offering good advice on the efficient use of our capital, liquidity, and funding resources. The Finance Department performs independent certification of all financial aggregates and creates the daily P&L explanation on market activities. In addition, our robust teams also oversee and execute cross-business projects in the financial and regulatory areas of the industry by providing expertise on accounting, prudential and tax norms while ensuring compliance.

Liquidity Reporting production is responsible for producing, reconciling and distributing Daily/Weekly/Monthly liquidity reports to SG’s ALM and RISK teams as well as senior management and regulators. This team has three primary functions in that they have a dedicated dash boarding team, a liquidity stress testing team and a 2052a regulatory reporting team. This role includes daily weekly and monthly liquidity funding reporting and liquidity stress testing reporting and various other funding flow snapshots. System integration includes account conversion for back-office systems. In addition, the team interfaces with regulators and business support for reviews, examinations as well as reporting requirement changes.

What will be your DAY-TO-DAY? This position focuses on delivering accurate and timely liquidity reporting, including the daily Cash Flow Forecast (CFF), daily dashboard reports, weekly liquidity stress testing, and other essential liquidity reporting needs. The role requires a detail-oriented individual with expertise in financial products and a proactive approach to data quality and process improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Daily Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate production of the CFF, dashboard reports, and other liquidity reports.
  • Data Accuracy: Conduct periodic reviews of data completeness and accuracy, performing first-level checks with offshore teams and second-level validations against other reporting streams (e.g., accounting).
  • Data Adjustments: Process manual adjustments to correct data quality issues and escalate anomalies, breaches, or limit exceptions promptly.
  • Collaboration with Offshore Teams: Oversee and review first-level controls performed by offshore support teams in India.
  • Issue Resolution: Address data quality and system feed issues, manage manual adjustments, and liaise with system projects to implement data enhancements.
  • Regulatory and Audit Support: Assist with regulatory reviews, internal audits, and ensure compliance with BCBS 239 data validation requirements.
  • Process Improvement: Document procedures, participate in system automation projects, user acceptance testing (UAT), and develop interim solutions (e.g., Excel macros) to stabilize and streamline reporting.
  • Financial Expertise: Leverage knowledge of financial instruments (derivatives, equities, fixed income, structured products, commodities, and currencies) to support reporting accuracy and improvements.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to critical liquidity management processes while driving improvements in data quality and operational efficiency.

Required Profile required Skills and Qualifications: Must Have:

  • Strong accounting and finance background and experience in Liquidity reporting
  • Product knowledge in Banking and Broker Dealers --- derivatives, loans, funding vehicles, currencies, fixed income, equity securities and commodities.
  • Experience in regulatory reporting in liquidity risk management.
  • Strong writing and communication skills
  • Ability to work independently with aggressive deadlines.
  • Strong Excel skills

Nice to Have:

  • VBA a plus
  • Alteryx, Python, Power BI a plus

LANGUAGE: Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Due to US Federal Securities law applying to this position, candidates who will apply for this position will be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA")

Why join us OUR BENEFITS: WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to:

  • Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
  • Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
  • Health spending ($2,000/year) and personal spending ($1,000/year) accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)

Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family

Various Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to engage with such as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.

  • A culture of continuous development by encouraging our employees various training programs (online training and coaching platform such as Coursera, GoFluent, Pluralsight, First Finance, and others)

Business insight Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE: At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/)

D&I: Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision:

  • Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
  • Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
  • Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

For more information about our D&I initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/societe-generale-about/diversity-and-inclusion/)

HYBRID WORK ENVIRONMENT: Societe Generale offers a hybrid work arrangement that offers employees the flexibility to work remotely, as well as on-site, in order to promote interaction and collaboration with colleagues while adhering to all SG standard protocols. Hybrid work arrangements vary based on business area. The applicable business lines will determine and communicate the work arrangements that best meet their business needs.

Diversity and Inclusion Societe Generale is an equal opportunity employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. We are committed to recognizing and promoting the talents and achievements of our employees and staff, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, and any other characteristic or status protected under applicable law. We strive to write our postings as inclusively as possible. If, however, one gender is used alone in this display, it designates persons of all gender identities.

About Societe Generale

Banking
10,000+

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions.

Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,000 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses:

  • French Retail Banking which encompasses the SG and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation;

  • International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services, with networks in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets;

  • Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions.

Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).