Responsibilities

With a team of over 50 highly engaged, diverse, and innovative HR professionals located in the US, Canada, and Brazil, the Americas Human Resources team is dedicated to acquiring, developing, advising, and promoting talents focused on best meeting and exceeding the needs of our business partners. As strategic partners to the Business, we are committed to providing staff with value-added programs and policies, a competitive compensation and benefits package, and a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe employee-centric environment where all can thrive to achieve their best potential. The HR team is composed of 5 teams: (1) Strategy, Transformation and Talent Acquisition, (2) Career Advisory, (3) Diversity, Talent and Development, (4) Total Rewards, and (5) Projects, Efficiencies and Analytics.
In this role, you will be contributing to risk management activities of the organization and will participate in the performance of controls, helping to assess risk, responding to audits, etc.

The VIE for Operational Risk Management will contribute to the HR risk management activities of HR in the Americas. The individual will participate in the performance and update of permanent controls, help to assess HR risks, responding to HR internal and external audits, and update HR key risk indicators

During your VIE mission you will be in charge of these responsibilities:

• Identify risk areas
• Continuously assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the control framework in place to reduce and mitigate risks (permanent supervision)
• Propose action plans to address residual risks
• Prepare and submit the HR metrics (commentary collection, input in the respective tool, etc.)
• Ensure a follow-up of the implementation of all action plans.
• Updating controls and monitoring performance
• Checking on required compliance to trainings
• Assisting in policy updates and monitoring

Profile

• Graduate with a Bachelor or Master's degree from Business/Engineering School or University in a related filed (Finance, Human Ressources or Operational Risk Management).
• A previous experience in the Financial Market sector or in Operational Risk Management in an HR environment would be appreciated
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Proficient/Good command of MS Office
• Results-oriented
• Proactive and innovative
• Fluent in English

To facilitate the examination of your application by our English-speaking managers, we thank you for applying in English

The VIE assignment in a nutshell

This VIE in Montreal is to begin as soon as possible but you need to plan 3 months between your application date and the beginning of your VIE assignment. It will last 24 months.

The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France’s eligibility criteria, opened to candidates under 28 and from the member states of the European Economic Space.

Please see Civiweb www.civiweb.com, in order to have more details regarding your financial indemnities.

We would like to draw your attention to the fact there that your VIE mission could potentially get postponed, depending on the evolution of the health crisis and subjects to the decision made by the Crisis and Support Centre of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE). In addition, the selected candidate will only be paid upon confirmation from Business France and arrival in the country of assignment.

To facilitate the examination of your application by our English-speaking managers, we thank you for applying in English.

As soon as you arrive, you will be integrated into our teams and will learn every day alongside our experts, who will support you in your tasks. Gradually, you will become more independent in your projects, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

At the end of your VIE, various opportunities could be offered to you, in France and abroad.

At Societe Generale, 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.

Societe Generale is an equal opportunity employer, and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. We are committed to recognizing and promoting the talents and achievements of our employees and staff, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, and any other characteristic or status protected under applicable law. We strive to write our postings as inclusively as possible. If, however, one of the two genders is used alone in this display, it designates persons of all gender identities.