Relationship Manager – M/F/D

Responsibilities

With the strength of its values, recognized expertise and distinct company culture built on over 150 years of history, Société Générale mobilizes its teams to offer a comprehensive range of innovate solutions to help you accomplish your goals and leverage your potential.

At the core of Société Générale’s universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 10 500 professionals present in more than 31 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors’ solutions for them by capitalizing on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

• For Corporates, Financial Institutions and Public Sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimized financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.
• For Investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution – both Agency and principal-, forward-looking research across asset classes, an industry-leading clearing proposition and prime brokerage services.

Mission: 

As a Corporate Client Coverage Relationship Manager in SG Vienna, you will be responsible for assisting the Branch’s Management and Senior Bankers in providing corporate banking services as well as investment banking products to corporate clients located in Austria.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Gain client trust and ensure SG provides the best possible services to clients and such in full respect of credit risk policies as well as SG scarce resources constraints (funding, RWA)
• Permanently assess client needs and proactively propose adequate solutions by considering the strategic orientation of our bank
• Manage closely the risks and credit aspects
• Support all involved business lines on credit and risk related issues by being perfectly. capable to handle articulated and complex risk-return assessments of both the overall client’s profile and of every specific deal
• Run all corporate coverage activities in Austria whereby striving to increase income related to investment banking and transaction banking activities
• Coordinating action around main clients with both senior bankers and colleagues of business lines involved developing transversal businesses and cross-selling activities with both affiliates and other SG departments
• Enhancing the bank’s institutional profile by organizing/participating in strategic events
• Fully embed the bank’s ESG strategy in the day-to-day management of the client relationship to create future value/generate tomorrow’s opportunities
• Demonstrate the highest standards of conduct and behavior in meeting Compliance’s and internal procedures: Contribute to data quality enhancement with the highest standards of execution when related to compliance processes (KYC, Embargoes & Sanctions)
• Respects local regulations and rules to protect firm’s interests whilst actively seeking sustainable growth for the client

Profile required

Studies & experience:

• Higher education
• 10+ years of professional experience in financial services

Language skills:

• Proficiency in German
• Fluency in English

Technical, operational & Soft skills:

• Strong product knowledge
• Good knowledge on major risks related topics: credit, operational, reputational, compliance
• Deep understanding of the clients’ strategies, product needs and financial objectives
• Good capacity to assess and to understand client´s needs whereby considering the strategy/liquidity constraints of the bank
• Solid understanding of financial analysis
• Strong knowledge of internal control framework and the regulatory environment, rules, and applicable regulations
• Ability to identify and focus on actionable new business opportunities, to have a strategic vision on market and value drivers
• Very good communication shills thus ability to address key decision makers
• Ability to identify new prospect clients
• Ability to maintain long term relationship with clients and internal stakeholders
• Acting with integrity, due skill, care, and diligence
• Paying due regard to the interest of the customers and treat them fairly
• Observing proper standards of market conduct

Why join us

Société Générale Austria is a multi-category bank offering every employee the possibility to have several careers in a professional career path. Internal mobility and training are two core areas we focus on, in a dynamic, prosperous and evolving context.

Business insight

At Société Générale, 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.

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 promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.

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