We’re a leading European financial services group with a global presence across 61 countries and 133,000 employees.
Who we are
Societe Generale UK is a leading financial innovator that creates better, brighter futures through entrepreneurial ideas, sustainable solutions and responsible banking. That’s what we do. In fact, it’s who we are: a friendly, inclusive and ambitious team that brings positive impact finance to life.
Welcome to our UK Business
Established in 1871 as the first SG office outside of France, our thriving UK business is headquartered from our purpose-built new workspace at One Bank Street in the heart of Canary Wharf and powered by a diverse team of around 3,600 employees.
Our comprehensive expertise ranges from corporate and investment banking to private banking services, asset management, prime brokerage and clearing services to vehicle and equipment finance.
Early careers in the future of banking
Empowering those who want to move the world forward. That’s how we’re creating brighter futures at Societe Generale. And no one has a bigger role to play in shaping a sustainable, equitable and prosperous world of tomorrow than the next generation of banking talent.
Ready to get your Early career off to a uniquely positive start? Find out how you can join us at the cutting-edge of positive impact finance.
Summer Internships
What is it?
It’s a structured eight-week programme based at our One Bank Street UK office in Canary Wharf.
Who is it for?
Penultimate-year undergraduates on track to gain a 2:1 (or equivalent).
What does it offer?
A Summer internship with Societe Generale will test the critical thinking skills sharpened in your degree course while giving you invaluable experience at the cutting edge of modern banking. Combining rich development with real-world responsibility, it’s a giant leap forward into a rewarding future career. On-the-job experience is supplemented by workshops, training sessions, talks from key speakers, and networking and social events.
Completing a Summer Internship is the route to potentially securing a place on our Graduate Programme.
Opportunities are available in Global Markets (high-quality investment, financing and risk management solutions) and Global Banking and Advisory (world-class products, financing, and advisory expertise).
Graduate Programme
What is it?
A two-year rotational programme that builds on your summer internship, based at our One Bank Street HQ in Canary Wharf.
Who is it for?
Summer Interns who’ve been offered a place and successfully graduated. Each year, a limited number of our Summer Interns will be offered a place on our two-year Graduate Programme. Returning as a full-time Graduate, Analyst, we’ll cultivate your talents through a fertile mix of training, mentoring and professional experiences – enriched by a holistic focus on wellbeing, purpose and impact.
What does it offer?
A full-time role as a Graduate Analyst combined with enhanced training and development throughout.
UK Trainees
What is it?
Contracts range in duration between six and 22 months and based at our One Bank Street HQ in Canary Wharf.
Who is it for?
Graduates or postgraduates in any relevant subject.
What does it offer
Intensive exposure to a specific business area.
Opportunities are available in all departments: Audit, Compliance, Corporate Finance, Business Management Office, Digital Transformation, Global Markets, Global Banking and Advisory, Human Resources, IT, Legal, Operations, Private Banking, and Risk.
Private Banking Post-Graduate Apprenticeships with SG Kleinwort Hambros
Kleinwort Hambros has more than 200 years of experience helping individuals, families, entrepreneurs, trusts and charities to manage their wealth. From expert wealth planning advice and investment strategies to specialist lending products, we provide the personal approach clients would expect from a modern and responsible private bank.
We have one clear purpose – to simplify life’s financial challenges. Providing a personal and holistic approach to wealth management, we know how to meet the needs of our clients with imagination, skill and attention to detail. We also understand the importance of creating strong relationships based on trust, service and expert knowledge.
As part of the Societe Generale Group, we have access to the resources and services of one of the world’s leading financial 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, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to positively transforming the world.
What is it?
A 22-month post-graduate apprenticeship programme based in either London, Jersey, Guernsey or Gibraltar.
Who is it for?
Those graduating in 2024 or recently graduated.
What does it offer?
A 22-month apprenticeship programme at Societe Generale provides you with a fully-funded professional qualification and endless opportunities for learning, development, and progression. You’ll have the opportunity from the very start to work with clients and colleagues from across the bank, working on projects that have a genuine positive impact- supporting our mission to build a more sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions. And 20% of your time will be allocated solely to learning, with a dedicated skills coach to support you through your journey.
Client-facing roles : 3 department rotations within the Front Office teams, including Client Services, Private Banking, Client Relationship Management, Investment Management, Credit, Wealth Planning, Trust, and the Business Management and Strategy Office.
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Business Support roles: Operations, IT, Compliance, Risk, Legal, Finance and Human Resources.
Values & Culture
We were founded on entrepreneurial spirit and innovation 150 years ago. Fast forward to today and we’re a pioneer of positive impact finance. Put simply, we use finance as a tool to bring about positive transformation across the industries in which we support our clients do business in. As a result, we’re contributing to the development of industrial adventures to tackle the environmental, social and governance challenges of our time.
Why join us
There are many great reasons to start your Early Career with Societe Generale UK. Here are six that together add up to a big impact.
Innovation
By joining a leader in positive impact finance, you’ll help power sustainable innovation across everything from new green tech and the energy transition to sustainable cities and social enterprises.
Meaning
Our values of Team Spirit, Innovation, Commitment and Responsibility are more than words on a page. You’ll feel their impact each and every day through the actions we take and decisions we make.
Pride
The best way to be is to be yourself. Our Employee Networks connect and support every community, while our focus on volunteering and fundraising will help you to support the causes that matter to you.
Accountability
Early Careers are very much real careers at Societe Generale UK. Expect stretching responsibility from day one so you can develop fast – along with all the support you need to deliver and thrive.
Collaboration
The new world of hybrid working is a natural extension of our fluid, dynamic approach to teamwork. Based at our state-of-the-art One Bank Street headquarters, you’ll have freedom to flex your work-life balance.
Training
Our Early Careers invest in you with a mix of focused learning, structured training, expert coaching and on-thejob experience – preparing you for future opportunities across our international business.
Our offices
Our headquarters are located in the heart of London’s new financial centre in Canary Wharf, where since 2019 we have been based at One Bank Street.
Our state-of-the-art building allows us to bring together all of our businesses and knowledge under one roof to offer our clients ever more integrated and creative solutions as well as enhancing their experience of working with us.
We are also proud to hold an Outstanding BREEAM rating for our One Bank Street office, confirming it as one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the City and Canary Wharf combined.
Equity, diversity & inclusion
A proud signatory of HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, we’re one of over 330 firms that have voluntarily committed to work together to build a more equitable and fair industry in terms of gender balance. We’re working hard to ensure success in delivering, not just the Charter’s targets, but in taking them a step further to embrace the spirit of them into our everyday actions across the bank.
Our approach to diversity and inclusion is to value differences. It’s about being an inclusive company where our people from all groups and backgrounds are treated fairly and have access to equal opportunities. As such it remains a significant area of focus for us across all our people touchpoints, from talent attraction, development and engagement through to retention. Indeed, one of our core values is Innovation, and as such we understand diversity of thought plays a significant part in enabling us to deliver creative, best in class solutions for our clients.
Inclusion is embedded in our organisational culture under our Life@Work framework, which pulls together various initiatives and practices and underpins our culture and working environment to support everyone to be their best selves in the workplace.
Our employee networks include Pride & Allies, Family, Be Me - Race Equity, Gender and TheWay, which is specifically for employees at the start of their career. Co-Chaired by senior leaders the networks provide a safe platform to bring together common interest groups with a desire to share their experiences and bring fresh ideas to ensure we continue to actively promote and develop our broader diversity and inclusion agenda.
Our strategy for all our networks revolves around three key pillars: 1) Networking & Influencing 2) Driving Cultural Change 3) Promoting broader collaboration and connection.
In August 2021 we signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, an initiative designed to improve outcomes for ethnic minority employees in the UK by increasing opportunities in the workplace.
Awards
The UK 300 2021/22
The 300 most popular graduate employers in the UK, as voted by students
Investment Bank of the Year for Sustainability
Recognising key players in the sustainable finance landscape by The Banker.
Outstanding Leadership in Sustainable Finance
Recognising global and regional leadership in Sustainable Finance by Global Finance.
Best Investment Bank for Sustainable Financing 2023
Recognising investment banks that support their clients in their sustainable finance efforts.
