Meet Roshan - Graduate at Societe Generale

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background?

I am heading into my second year on the Graduate Programme at Societe Generale

I studied Accounting and Finance at LSE and graduated in July 2023

What is your role and how long have you been here?

I am currently an Emerging Markets trader in FX and rates and have covered both frontier markets and CEE markets

I interned on the Emerging markets trading desk in summer 2022

I joined the bank as a graduate in 2023 with my first rotation being in credit repo from sept 2023 to Jan 2024

I then had my second rotation in Feb 2024 back to the emerging markets trading desk where I interned and I am still here.

What do you find most interesting about the sector/industry you’re in?

Cliche but every day is different!

On a trading desk you constantly have to monitor your own positions in expectation and/or reaction to market conditions, truly everyday comes with new challenges and new things to learn

What is the company culture like?

At Societe Generale, graduates are given lots of responsibility. I have found this notion of learning by doing to be very apparent across both the desks I have worked on. This has meant within my first few weeks on a trading desk I was speaking with internal and external teams and executing my own trades. And within six weeks I was given complete autonomy over some currencies to trade – this is something which I doubt is seen across the street at competitor banks.

All colleagues are willing to help despite seniority and it gives the sense that they truly do want you to thrive and succeed.