Internship Relationship Associate – M/W

Others Internship Astana, Kazakhstan Reference 25000ESJ Start date 2025/08/18 Publication date 2025/07/08

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Relationship Associate (RA) the Representative Office (RO) of Société Générale (SG) in the RK. 

Tasks and responsibilities :

Client-related responsibilities:

· Follow-up of the ongoing projects by contacting the Clients and BLs via e-mail/phone

· Monitoring of the tenders and RFPs and timely information to the managers and relevant BLs

· Preparation of call reports

· Helping BLs with KYC procedure and ensuring the provision of all necessary KYC documents:

· Managing the organizational and content aspects of the meetings/missions of the BLs and managers ( requests for meetings, agenda management, accommodation, transportation), content of the meetings ( brief notes, biographies, and information memorandums on SG)

· Manager(s) and BLs the information updates on economic and political situation in the country.

· support to the Regional Head for Uzbekistan portfolio of clients

Weekly:

· Sending the deals pipeline and progress reports to the Country Head

Monthly:

· Sending the Monthly updates on on-going projects, political, economic, and financial news to the internal distributions list

Administrative responsibilities:

· Forwarding to the Business Support Manager (based in rep office in Az) and Accountant the scanned invoices from Suppliers.

· Identification of the most preferable Suppliers of different goods and services based on experience, references, quality and prices of goods and services, negotiations of the contracts, translation of the contracts to English, if necessary.

· Preparation and provision of different official letters and reports to the Authorities and the Bank based on Power of Attorney from Country Head

· Monitoring and control on the limits set up for the various types of expenses ( travel, meals, etc) and monitoring of the utilization of the approved Budget ( in coordination with the Country Head and Business Support Manager based in Azerbaijan)

Monthly:

· Preparation of internal Expenses Report on all expenses of the representative office in line with the internal requirements

· Provision to the Accountant of original documents received from Suppliers (invoices, certificates of services rendered, waybills for goods, etc.)

Quarterly:

· Preparation of Supervision Permanente reports to the Head Office (Chief operating Officer)

Yearly:

· Preparation of reports on the contents of the safe/ other reports as deemed required by the local compliance

COS Functions:

· KYC/Compliance – control of yearly KYC process and collection of the required documents from the clients through KSM tool, following up on the restriction waves with CLIC and BMO teams, new clients onboarding or opening of KYC agreements in new geographies, promoting process improvements. Periodic screening, monitoring and analysis of the clients.

· Internal reporting – preparation of periodic internal reports related to the clients.

· Profitability: managing of profitability and CBC campaigns for the clients in the portfolio (such as actuals H1 and FY, forecasts H1 and FY) via CPROFIT and/or PCM tool, calculation of RGCP when required

· Setting up senior unsecure financing (CBA): pricing of the opportunity in the financing platform, follow up of the platform through the financing platform and MyCredit (informing MO/BO teams, booking liquidity, completing transaction checklist, ensuring validations in MyCredit), follow up on the credit risk process (by completing and submitting CORISQ forms if necessary, communication with CRE and RISQ teams), getting KYC/CPLE transaction approval if necessary, communicating with SYN teams if necessary, working on documentation with SEGL/JUR, SEGL/FIS, Compliance, MO/BO, banker, ensuring the signing of the visa grid, following up on the deal closing with MO/BO/banker, making sure that the information is correctly reflected in CPM.

· Follow-up on the signed deals, such as work on waivers, various requests (beneficial ownership certificates, invoices request etc.)

· Updating environmental and social memos with GLBA/ENV.

· Managing internal databases, ensuring that the client information is up to date and is correctly reflected in the tools (such as attach/detach an entity from the client group, change of banker etc.) mainly through BDR and RCT tools.

· Follow up on RWA consumption of the portfolio by updating the pipeline in the financing platform and informing the COO team.

· Preparing briefing memos and presentations on the client in the portfolio, completion of minutes of meetings, updating contacts in iC.

· Prepare information (incl. relevant financial data, text comments, tombstones etc) for the ExCo and other management meetings related to the region and clients in the portfolio.

· Participate in the Wholesale Client Office (WCO) campaigns on the clients of the portfolio, such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys.

· Various requests related to the support of the banker’s PCRU responsibilities on the clients in the portfolio

Profile required

Studies & experience:

Major in Economic and Finance or related subjects

Language skills:

Strong language skills in Russian and English

Technical, operational & Soft skills:

Standard technical skills for a banker Excellent communication skills Team player

Internship duration: 6 months

Why join us

Société Générale Kazakhstan 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.