Trainee - Product Specialist for Quantitative

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Société Générale Full time

**Responsibilities**:
**Description of the Business Line or Department**

At Société Generale, you will be joining the Global Markets division (MARK) of SG Corporate and Investment Banking.** **MARK offers a cross-asset approach along all its offerings**:Research,** **Investment & Risk Management Solutions, Execution and Prime Services to asset managers, pension funds, companies, private banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, family offices, sovereign funds and distributors worldwide.

**Summary of the key purposes of the role**

You will join the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) team in London as Product Specialist and will evolve in an international, dynamic and fast paced environment integrated within the Sales, Traders and Quant Research.** **The QIS Team oversees designing and packaging systematic strategies (e.g. risk premia ideas) into an investable format. The team has a cross-asset coverage (Equity Derivatives, Equity Cash, Fixed Income & Currencies, Commodities, Cross-Asset portfolios).

**Summary of responsibilities**

The product specialist oversees:

- Designing, developing and producing detailed commercial presentations, and other marketing material on Quant Strategies to clients and potential institutional investors.
- Answering to Request of Proposal
- Pushing and promoting Quant strategies and QIS team
- Collaboration with the various teams of Financial Engineers & Sales from different platforms (New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo): Financial engineering, performance explanations, backtesting
- Qualitative & quantitative analysis on the strategies
- Being part of the thinking process of the idea generation for the development of new Quant strategies
- Market Watch, analysis of the competition offering
- Project management: internal data base, launch of new range...

**Level of Autonomy and Authority**

The product specialist will work under supervision of the Head of QIS Marketing and other team members. Depending on experience and capabilities, **they** will work autonomously on presentation, backtests, projects etc with the help of **their** manager, the QIS marketing team and some colleagues in Engineering.

**Profile required**:
**Competencies**
- Analytical ability, leadership, organizational and business development skills, accuracy and attention to detail;
- Strong mathematical skills are required
- Ability to manage complex processes dealing with multiple internal and external resources;
- Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word);
- Good communication skills necessary to interact with Sales and other Engineers
- Reactivity & Teamwork

**WORK EXPERIENCE**

Prior work experience in the similar field is a plus but not required

**EDUCATION**

Bachelor or master’s degree in business studies, Engineering, IT, Economics, Finance** etc.**

**LANGUAGES**

Fluent in French & English

**Why join us**:
People join for the impact they can have on us. They stay for the impact we have on them. A flatter structure offers visibility and exposure beyond that of our competitors, so you know our names, and we know yours. It's personable, human, and inspires success through passion. By encouraging open mindedness and a willingness to share ideas, we have adapted to market changes and thrived through innovation. Bringing words like “hard work” and “dedication” together with “community” and “respect” has enabled us to work collaboratively and build our future together. We call this Team Spirit and it's what makes us different. It's what makes you different.

**Business insight**:

- We are an
- **equal opportunities employer** and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and- Reference:

- **2300063D**
- Entity:

- **Societe Generale London Branch**
- Starting date:

- **2023/04/03**
- Publication date:

- **2023/03/06



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