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V.I.E. EQD Sales Assistant

Societe Generale18 days ago
Hybrid
Toronto, Ontario
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About the role

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Responsibilities Within Societe Generale, our market activities are integrated into a multi-asset, multi-product platform. We focus on delivering high quality investment, financing and risk management solutions to a wide range of clients: asset managers, pension funds, banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, corporates, family offices, sovereign funds and retail network distributors around the world. In Canada, our offering is focused on sales and agency trading within the Equities and Equity Derivatives division; including a large Prime Services and Clearing offering. With more than 30 years of experience across equity derivatives, we are a pioneer across both flow and exotic products. Our market leading expertise and diverse business mix allows us to offer clients the full spectrum of equity based services, across cash equity markets, listed and OTC derivatives. As well, the prime services and clearing department at Societe Generale provides cross-asset solutions for asset managers, hedge funds, professional trading groups, banks, brokers and corporates.

Responsibilities :

  • Gain exposure to capital market products (equities, futures and listed derivatives, OTC derivatives, light exotics, prime brokerage and clearing…)
  • Take part in the team/client strategy, product pushes and initiatives, client meetings
  • Assisting senior sales in development of tools to assist in the sales process - programming
  • Writing and circulating meeting notes and briefing memo's
  • Coordinating onboarding requests
  • KYC (evaluating requests, providing contacts, performing follow-ups)
  • Sending various weekly and monthly sales updates
  • Assist in the preperation of client meetings - marketing materials and pitchbooks

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. Please note that it is mandatory to provide us 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 diploma. Required Profile required PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship. To facilitate the examination of your application by our English-speaking managers, we thank you for applying in English. Studies & experience:

  • Graduate with an Undergraduate or Master degree from Business/Engineering School or University with a specialization in finance, engineering, programming, math
  • A previous experience in finance would be appreciated

Language skills:

  • Fluent in English

Technical, operational & Soft skills:

  • Good communication and presentation skills
  • Proficient/Good command of MS Office
  • Attention to detail
  • Project management skills -- ability to organize and follow up independantly on projects
  • Programming skills and strong knowledge of excel
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (French and English)

The VIE assignment in a nutshell

This VIE in Toronto is to begin June 1st, 2026, but you need to plan 3 months between your application date and the beginning of your VIE assignment. It will last 24 months.

The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France’s eligibility criteria, opened to candidates under 28 and from the member states of the European Economic Space. For further information (including your financial indemnities), please see Mon VIE-VIA Business France.

Why join us As soon as you arrive, you will be integrated into our teams and will learn every day alongside our experts, who will support you in your tasks. Gradually, you will become more independent in your projects, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

At the end of your VIE, various opportunities could be offered to you, in France and abroad.

Business insight At Societe Generale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.

Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.

If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.

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

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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).