Corporate Legal Assistant
Location: New York New York
Description: Société Générale is employing Corporate Legal Assistant right now, this job will be placed in New York. For detail informations about this job opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION
Societe Generale’s Structured Products & Cross Asset Solutions, Legal Group is part of the U.S. Legal and Compliance Department MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES
! Day to day responsibilities include but not limited to:
Work with senior attorneys on structured products issuance programs.
Draft offering memoranda, product and transaction-specific supplements, closing documents, and distribution agreements relating to the issuance of structured products., and update standard templates as needed.
Facilitate the derivatives structuring process by identifying issues relating to new products and coordinating with internal/external counsel, structurers, traders, the marketing team, and salespersons to resolve them.
Assist in annual renewals of regulatory filings associated with the offering and sale of securities
Assist in the semi-annual due diligence work for structured products issuance programs by coordinating with internal treasury group and outside and internal counsel, and keeping track of all diligence deliverable items.
Ensure that record keeping and compliance policies are followed and that all transacti! onal indices are duly organized and updated in a timely fashio! n
Review and draft confidentiality agreements with external counterparties, standardizing and refreshing templates as needed
Review marketing material COMPETENCIES
Required:
Team player with an excellent work ethic, strong desire to succeed and advance, and positive attitude.
Ability to juggle multiple projects.
Demonstrated attention to detail and strong critical and creative thinking capabilities.
Desired:
Understanding of the structured products industry and OTC markets.
Experience in financial sector / banking TECHNICAL SKILLS
Required:
Excellent editing, drafting, communication, analytical, mathematical and organizational skills.
MS Word and Excel proficiency Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Desired/Plus:
Knowledge of the structured products market, and legal issues, documentation and pract! ices.
Knowledge of the OTC market PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
Required:
Summer/school-year work experience that evidences ability to take on demands of job and excel. in a fast-paced field
Desired:
Experience working in structured products and equity derivatives EDUCATION
Required:
Bachelor of Arts degree from top-quality institution; exceptional GPA LANGUAGES
Desired:
Knowledge of French and/or Spanish language is a plus
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This job starts available on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:13:12 GMT