Capital Planning Expert, VP in London

Societe Generale is one of Europe's leading financial services groups and a major player in the economy for over 160 years. We support 25 million clients every day with more than 126,000 staff in 65 countries. Our Group draws on our European roots to develop our business internationally. Our unique geographic positioning enables us to connect Europe and Africa with major global financial centres in Asia and the Americas. The Group combines financial strength, proven expertise in innovation, and a sustainable growth strategy with the objective of creating value for all our stakeholders. We seek to be a trusted partner in building tomorrow's world today.

Purpose of the Role

As a Capital Planning expert, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting the delivery of capital management policies and frameworks across SGIL, including assessment of capital adequacy, forecasting, planning, budgeting, and strategy.
• Consolidating, enhancing, and automating existing capital planning capabilities, including forecasting, impact assessments, and capital steering.
• Embedding capital metrics into annual business planning, budgeting, and financial performance activities.
• Producing accurate and timely reports and analyses covering forecast regulatory metrics against requirements and risk appetite.
• Supporting annual Recovery Plan and Resolution activities, such as impact assessments of recovery options and forecast recovery capacity.

Responsibilities

• Projecting capital adequacy based on financial and strategic planning budgets.
• Assessing capital adequacy under base case and stress scenarios.
• Formulating, approving, and reviewing stress scenarios and their impacts on capital adequacy with internal stakeholders.
• Identifying drivers of capital adequacy against risk appetite metrics.
• Performing impact analysis on capital adequacy related to planning actions.
• Producing internal presentations and detailed documentation supporting assumptions, judgments, and methodologies for forecasting models, working with Capital Modelling.
• Contributing to Capital Adequacy Statements and ICAAP exercises.
• Ensuring adherence to model governance, controls, and EUC standards.
• Supporting Recovery and Resolution Plan exercises, including impact assessments of recovery options and capacity forecasts.

Capital Budgeting

• Validating capital requirements under base case and stress scenarios against business plans.
• Calibrating internal monitoring metrics and thresholds aligned with risk appetite.
• Making recommendations when business plans exceed risk appetite metrics.

Profile Required

The ideal candidate should be a prudential regulation or risk professional, a subject matter expert with broad knowledge of capital management's technical and procedural aspects. They should be passionate about regulation and capable of operating at a high standard in a dynamic environment.

Skills and experience include:

• Experience in finance or risk departments
• Knowledge of prudential regulatory requirements under CRR in the UK
• Experience with capital planning and forecasting within ICAAP frameworks
• Experience with counterparty credit risk
• Knowledge of balance sheet management
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and structured thinking skills, with minimal oversight required
• Strong numerical, analytical, and programming skills in VBA, R, and Python

Why Join Us

Societe Generale is a leading European financial services group supporting 25 million clients daily, with over 126,000 staff across 65 countries. Our European roots and global reach enable us to connect Europe and Africa with major financial centers in Asia and the Americas. We combine financial strength, innovation, and sustainable growth to create value for stakeholders. We aim to be a trusted partner for those building the future.

About the Team

The Finance Division (DFIN) manages:

• Financial and budgetary strategy, investment, and development policies
• Profitability analysis across client, business, and geographic portfolios
• Group account certification, including accounting quality and valuation standards

The UK Treasury department (DFIN/ALT) handles:

• Treasury dealing, ALM, liquidity, capital management, and recovery planning activities

If you meet the qualifications, please apply to the SG Resourcing Team. At Société Générale, we value diversity and are committed to equal opportunity employment.