Lease-purchasing and operational leasing
An increasing number of companies prefer to lease their vehicles or their IT assets, instead of purchasing them and recording them as balance sheet items. Other companies are looking for innovative bespoke financing particularly suited to their sectors of activity, and the countries in which they are expanding. The Société Générale specialized financial services offer acknowledged expertise in leasing and operational leasing, and are supported by subsidiaries of international stature which are leaders in their respective markets.
Operational vehicle leasing & fleet management
Operational car leasing is a rapidly growing solution for corporate customers who need to externalize the management of their car and van fleets. ALD Automotive brings together the financial advantages of operational leasing with a high service content which allows corporate customers of all sizes to focus on their core businesses without divesting their time and resources for the management of their fleets. Widely recognized for the quality of its offer, the competence of its teams and its extensive geographical coverage, ALD Automotive has become an international reference on the operational leasing and fleet management market, of which it is one of the European leaders.
Number two in Europe on its market, and number three worldwide, ALD Automotive covers today 39 countries and is using its acknowledged expertise and pan-European offering as a launch pad to conquer new markets across the globe.
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ALD Automotive manager
The manager role is crucial, as the satisfaction of our clients depends on his professionalism.
At that role, your main missions are as follows:
- The privileged interlocutor of drivers, you receive and process your requests, or pass them on to the departments concerned.
- You take calls from users and fleet managers requesting replacement/short-term vehicles.
- You reserve vehicles from approved body repair/short-term rental networks.
- You monitor vehicle immobilisations and extension requests from agencies.
- You check and record supplier invoices. You also re-invoice clients where necessary.
- You process and follow up legal disputes.
- Claim management: you receive all claim declarations and organize follow-up (making appointment for expert appraisal, repair or replacement vehicle).
ALD maintenance technician
If we are able to provide high quality service at all times, it is thanks to the maintenance technician in charge of technical assistance for our clients.
At that role, your main missions consist in:
- Taking all necessary actions to reduce the immobilisation time of vehicles awaiting repair
- Helping clients to find approved repairers and/or suppliers
- Giving technical approval to repairers after checking the estimate and the justification for the request
- Monitoring and checking vehicle repairs
- Make claims against repairers for any anomalies found, and make warranty claims against car makers and/or repairers, as well as providing technical follow-up for such claims
- Keep time charts, and all documentation necessary for checking invoices, up to date
- Check and issue re-invoicing to clients
- Settle client disputes and inform the Commercial Departments about the outcome
ALD Automotive commercial advisor
The commercial advisor is at the heart of our branch sales development strategy.
At that role, you contribute to raising awareness of the Group's name and image as a reference on the market, and help the dynamism of the branch to which you are assigned.
Your main mission is to achieve the individual annual target allocated to you in terms of volume and value added. To do so, you must:
- Manage and develop the client portfolio entrusted to you
- Prospect for potential clients in your assigned geographical sector
- Collect all the information necessary for studying and accepting files
- Carry out regular reporting about the clients and prospects concerned
- Visit clients and prospects with the sales managers
- Carry out diagnostic tests and apply the sales cycle method to all prospect files
- Grant discounts to enable solutions in line with our Group's commercial policy
- Win client loyalty by periodical monitoring.
IT asset leasing & management
ECS Group is the leader in France and in Europe of I.T. operational leasing. Created in 1974, ECS fully covers the needs of SMEs and International Groups alike. ECS supplies and guaranties to its customers optimized IT solutions and services such as security and 24/7 maintenance. Using ECS operational lease solutions protects our customer companies financing capacity. The ECS logistical platform also ensures that our customer's IT materials are constantly renewed and their value optimized by the remarketing of used equipment. ECS has adapted its commercial offer to international markets. The Group has a long experience in exporting its know-how throughout Europe and is now also looking for efficient and profitable opportunities in further international markets.
With a geographical coverage that spans 16 countries, ECS has more than 1,500 staff members worldwide.
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ECS sales engineer
You develop and manage your client portfolio by offering solutions for the leasing of IT infrastructures and associated bespoke services in B to B. You operate in a rich environment of high level interlocutors (General Management, IT services division, Financial Division), and are the "orchestra conductor" who brings together the internal skills needed to ensure a successful outcome for your projects.
ECS itinerant technician
The proximity with the client and the quality of our technical interventions are essential requirements to ensure quality and satisfaction. As an AS400/Unix/Mainframe or Intel itinerant technician, you are one of the main ambassadors of this ongoing effort to deliver the highest quality of service.
You are responsible for hardware installation, migration and repairing services for the client.
Vendor and equipment finance
The Société Générale Equipment Finance, a fully own company of Societe Generale Group is the European leader in Equipment Finance and Vendor Programs. Société Générale Equipment Finance is specialized in three sectors: transport, industrial equipment and high-tech industries. It offers adapted financing solutions to businesses (through operational leasing, financial leasing...) in all the country where investments are planned with a large presence in 21 countries. SG Equipment Finance also ensures financing solutions for all the customers of its own prescriptors in countries where SG Equipment Finance is located, through Pan-European programs. It also offers to its own customers bespoke solutions and ensures quantifiable results in term of increased margin, reduced balance-sheet, cash-flow management and of risk exposure. Strongly established in Europe Société Générale Equipment Finance is now looking at new international opportunities to efficiently follow up its expansion worldwide. In its 25 units across the world, SGEF has some 2,700 staff members
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SG Equipment Finance Risk Researcher
The risk researcher plays a key role in our professionalism and our performance. While making sure we take appropriate and well-founded decisions by means of a thorough risk analysis, you are in close contact with the different departments of our Group and its subsidiaries.
As a Société Générale Equipment Finance risk researcher, you are responsible for analysing the financing requests passed on to you for lease finance, leasing and medium or long-term credit. With a thorough knowledge of financial analysis and accounting, and a good command of credit matters, you make use of the decision-making aid tools provided, and decide within your own delegation to validate some files, or makes proposals to your hierarchy if acting outside your own delegation.
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