Business Analyst

ABOUT THE JOB:

The aim of Global Banking Technology & Operations Unit (GBTO) is to deliver day-to-day services to Société Générale investment and corporate bank units and their clients to accelerate their transformation. GBTO differentiates itself from competitors with the pace of the agile transformation delivered, spreading the technology and data culture, shortening the decision-making process, and adopting a true industrial approach, leveraging on different teams either transversal or aligned to the different sub business units.

Within Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, GBTO/EQD directly supports our business division, the Global Markets Division and participates in bringing together the Research, Investment and Risk Management Solutions, Execution and Clearing, Prime Services, Equities, Futures and Currencies & Commodities structuring capabilities with the objective of providing investors with one integrated multi-asset market solutions team. The business uses an advisory and innovation mindset, focused on client needs, with a global leader in financial markets engineering. Global Markets is a leading player in derivatives, with unrivaled over the counter and listed derivatives expertise, as well as cross-asset and economic research.  Our prime services' offering is a unique combination of execution, clearing, custody and financing services.

Our team is focused on the development and operations of trading IT systems with all the transversal functions required to sustain the business and develop it from market execution to trading lifecycle and regulatory reporting. We align both local (America) and global business lines within the Global Banking and Investor Solutions section of the group.

Our current ambitions are to constantly improve the systems used by our business partners, migrate legacy applications to a public cloud architecture, and promote the growth and adoption of in-house data science platforms.

Within the Montreal business analyst and project management team, under GBTO/EQD department one of our responsibilities is:

• Build, maintain, and provide technical support to the core systems that are used by global trading desks, and ensure technical and functional coherence within IT architecture.
• Innovate and provide automated solutions to local and global trading and sales desks.

What will be your DAY-TO-DAY?

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements.
• Participate in the design, integration, and organization of technical solutions.
• Translate needs into Agile stories and represent them through the team's delivery efforts.
• Create and maintain documentation regarding our domain and systems.
• Participate in end-to-end testing and create test cases based on specific user requirements.
• Coordinate and liaise with clients on the User Acceptance Test (UAT) phase.
• Analyze existing reporting logics with the intent of clarifying their current flow, improving their quality, delivering enhancements and porting across platforms.
• Work with team experts to provide estimates, feedback, and suggestions on business requirements to maximize value for delivery and service resiliency.
• Participate in preparation, validation, correction, and presentation of ad-hoc report requests from different stakeholders.
• Work in close relationships with developers and data engineers to ensure proper integration, reports automation and user experience.
• Animate our agile ceremonies and the team’s daily life.
• Work in a team-oriented environment, developing and supporting business and transversal systems within IT.
• Use Agile concepts for designing, coding, testing, implementing, and supporting trading application software that is delivered on time and within budget.

Skills And Qualifications:

Must Have:

• Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Finance or Financial Engineering, Mathematics of Finance, or Economics.
• Required at least 3 years of experience at a financial institution, preferably on the trading floor.
• Preferably 2 years of experience as Business analyst in a financial institution.
• 5+ years of experience as Business Analyst or in similar positions with a clear understanding of Software Development life cycle and process Oriented.
• Highly collaborative – an open individual who can work successfully with multi-disciplinary, multi-national teams.
• Perfect communication skills to deal with many stakeholders.
• Agile methodology expertise is appreciated.
• High achiever, driven to exceed expectations, with the highest personal standards regarding integrity and confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships within a large organization and partner with other business heads.

Role and Responsibilities:

As part of the Project Management team, the candidates’ responsibilities are:

• Design IT solutions to respond to our business requirements with the Equity and Commodity derivate space.
• Propose recommendations for process improvement as well as ensure continuous production stability for the IT platform.
• Give clear and consistent specification and technical analysis, easily transferable to IT development team to initiate project execution phase.
• Monitor and ensure high quality milestones deliveries on time and in line with internal technological constraints as well as business time constraints.
•  Identify and Execute test strategies, test plan and functional test cases.
• Prepare and conduct functional reviews and training sessions.
• Capable of working with customers and cross-location teams to establish and maintain consistent delivery.
• Foster an efficient and Close team environment, with interactions distributed across Montreal, Paris, Bucharest, and India.
• Follow SG policies and procedures like change management, project governance, and software configuration management.
• Ensure production stability for every project delivery and postproduction follow-up. People Development: Develops others by sharing their own experience and expertise.
• Results and Impact
  • Able to influence peers and team.
  • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
  • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
  • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
• Leadership and Collaboration:
  • Creates trust with colleagues.
  • Facilitates discussion and resolution of conflict.
  • Actively drives changes, defining the concrete steps to implement them. Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
  • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
  • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
• Compliance Culture and Conduct:
  • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
  • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Technical skills

·       Required:

•          Excellent analytical skills, including quantitative/numerical analysis.

•          Advanced Excel and PPTX skills.

•          Interest to learn new things and willingness to work across multiple tools/databases.

•          IT Technical Skills: SQL, Python, VBA, FIX, JIRA.

•          Good understanding of the Trading lifecycle. Market Structure and Regulatory reporting within the US market

• Nice to have:
  •  Fidessa, Broadridge, NASDAQ TRF, Loan IQ, Shadow.
  • Preferred financial certification such as SIE, FINRA Series 99 or CFA

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. 

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/careers/get-know-diversity/)