Business Analyst with French

Responsibilities
The "Composition Management Solution" team is part of the IT department supporting the French Retail Banking division of Société Générale. You will join a team responsible for developing and maintaining applications within the document management ecosystem. This includes handling tools used for mass processing and mailing of documents in a B2C (business-to-consumer) context. You goal is to contribute to improving the efficiency and flow of outgoing mail operations, ensuring the compliance with postal rules, standards and regulations.

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with Product Owner capabilities, to take on a key role in the evolution and maintenance of our document management applications.

This role involves working closely with the development team and other internal teams, as well as third-party stakeholders in France. You will work across teams, stakeholders, and cultures, contributing to the shift toward agile ways of working.

Gather and clarify business needs from internal teams as well as third party partners (such as the French Post)

Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and functional specifications

Maintain a clear and realistic product backlog by aligning business priorities with technical capacity and delivery timelines

Estimate effort and cost in collaboration with developers, track team capacity and monitor budget usage

Prepare regular reports on progress, budget, and risk, for management and stakeholders

Facilitate planning sessions and retrospectives

Conduct acceptance testing and validate deliverables before release

Support the cultural and methodological shift toward agile ways of working

Profile required

• How you will make an impact:
• Gather and clarify business needs from internal teams as well as third party partners
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and functional specifications
• Maintain a clear and realistic product backlog by aligning business priorities with technical capacity and delivery timelines
• Estimate effort and cost in collaboration with developers, track team capacity and monitor budget usage
• Prepare regular reports on progress, budget, and risk, for management and stakeholders
• Facilitate planning sessions and retrospectives
• Conduct acceptance testing and validate deliverables before release
• Support the cultural and methodological shift toward agile ways of working
• What you bring:
• Experience as a Business Analysts, exposure to Product Owner / Project Manager responsibilities is recommended
• Excellent communication skills in French and English, both written and spoken – able to bridge gaps between languages as needed
• Strong autonomy and emotional intelligence (take ownership while nurturing collaboration)
• Skilled at synthetizing the big picture while remaining detail-oriented when execution demands it
• Able to anticipate obstacles, propose improvements, and create future-focused projections and plans
• Good understanding of budget estimation, tracking and reporting
• Experience in working in agile environments, ideally with cross-functional, multicultural teams
• Promoter of best practices in documentations, process design, and agile collaboration
• Comfortable with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and MS Office Suite
• Not only feature-driven: a mindset focused on clarity, structure and improvement
• Nice to have:
• Experience on IT banking projects
• Experience in managing relationships with external partners and third parties, especially in a regulated context (such as document management)
• Experience in document lifecycle management
• Familiarity with public-sector organizations or postal services

Why join us

SG GSC is a Great Place to Work certified company. Here, you will find a flexible workplace and culture, autonomy, constant learning opportunities, dynamism, and talented people, 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.

Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:

• competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus;
• preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance;
• wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget;
• office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs;
• various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;
• 9-to-5 workday & flexible working environment (Hybrid);
• additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave;
• learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans;
• unlimited access to various eLearning resources.

Business insight

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 daily and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us

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Diversity and Inclusion

We are an
equal opportunities employer
and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and
promoting all talents
, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.