Avp - Reconciliations Control & Treasury – Futures Derivatives Clearing jobs at Citi Group in Singapore, Singapore

cations systems analysis and programming activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and test resilient, stateless, scalable, and reusable services and APIs utilizing latest frameworks and libraries while adhering to development standards.

• Architect, review and implement technical solutions that conform to Citi standards, deliver optimized client experience and competitive advantage while utilizing best-of-breed technology.

• Develop reusable software components in a microservices cloud-native architecture. Develop high-performing Angular screens utilizing latest in-house frameworks and libraries with an emphasis on design patterns, reusability, code quality and secure coding practices.

• Drive application development activities by partnering closely with stakeholders, product managers and business analysts to understand problem statement.

• Implement automated build, test and deployment pipelines utilizing latest DevOps tools available at Citi.

• Strong experience in validating testing and have quality product at early stage of lifecycle and ability to partner with QA engineers to drive test automation efforts

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build reusable, shared libraries, and components. Mentor/coach junior team members and enforce governance with respect to application development and testing standards and best practices to continuously enhance code quality.

• Research and understand front-end development and DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards.

• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure that the application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.

Required Skills

• Seasoned professional with 7+ years of experience in the IT industry. Sound technical background with a passion to explore emerging technologies.

• Experience designing and developing cloud native applications with a microservices architecture running on Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes platform

• Application development experience using Java, Spring, SQL, REST APIs, Kafka/ IBM MQ, CI/CD tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins •

• Experience developing web applications in JavaScript, Angular, HTML and CSS.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment and managing stakeholders in a global and dynamic environment.

• Detail-oriented professional who can juggle priorities in a high-pressure, dynamic, global environment.

• Strong analytical, inter-personal and problem-solving skills with the ability to innovate and a can-do attitude. Quick learner with the ability to multi-task, manage tight deadlines, adapt to changing requirements and deal with ambiguity without impacting delivery.

• Detail-oriented and self-organized individual with exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to build trusted relationships and partner across a complex organization. Proactive and self-motivated professional who can hit the ground running. Willingness to ask questions, challenge the statusquo and seek out answers and a passion for continuous process improvements.

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Desirable Skills

• Experience and Competencies Understanding of futures and options clearing workflow and experience working with futures exchanges and clearinghouses.

• Experience working on application security standards and protocols such as Oauth, TLS, SSL, SSH, SFTP and PKI

• Experience with distributed Cache (Gemfire/ Redis)

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Purpose:

You will play a pivotal part in helping to support the lifecycle of a trade, focusing on controls, reconciliations, and treasury management. Working closely with Business partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure all transactions flow through our front to back Operations teams, with no issues.

You will develop a broad and detailed understanding of the organization’s landscape, culture, processes, and Technology.

You will have the opportunity to recommend creative suggestions on how to improve processes to minimize losses from failed internal processes, inadequate controls, and emerging risk better serve our clients.

Job Requirements

• Daily monitoring and processing of exchange, central clearing house margin calls
• Application of business acumen and analysing trends across treasury and control processes
• Creation and input into associated metrics to enable productivity measurement.
• Oversight of Balance Sheet accounts and proactively management of break resolution and escalation
• Liaison with Finance teams regarding applicability and validity of monthly Adjustments
• Execution of collateral asset movements and associated monitoring
• Ensure adherence to our regulatory requirements and understand these, always follow key processes and control requirement.
• Ability to communicate complex processes and workflows.
• Escalate clearly and promptly.
• Manage the investigation and resolution of breaks with Exchanges, Brokers, and Affiliates
• Improvement of daily processing to increase efficiency, identify where automation is required and drive solutions to completion.
• Ensure Standard Operating procedures are up to date and cover all functions, understand, and follow Citi policies and standards.
• Participation and ability to drive change initiatives both global strategic and regional discretionary and mandatory.
• Partner effectively with Business stakeholders, technology groups, finance, and compliance teams. Regionally across Asia and Globally.
• As a senior member of the team be able to take on supervisory functions, both on and offshore oversight when the team lead is absent.
• Required to have the ability to work autonomously and as an effective team member.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant Industry Experience: minimum of 5 years relevant experience in Financial Organization i.e. Investment Banking / Investment Management / Hedge Fund / Exchange
• Communication Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial concepts clearly and effectively to a diverse audience.
• Problem-Solving: Proven track record of resolving issues efficiently and effectively, able to drill into the details, and address the root cause.
• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in communications, transactions, and reporting.
• Be able to demonstrate the relevant experience in operations risk management across the derivatives products.
• Ability to write business development requirements to initiate change and automation requests across technology stacks as well as low code automation solutions.
• Be familiar with the associated regulatory obligations across client money rules and margin calls across the Asian futures and derivative markets.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Bachelor’s Degree/University degree or equivalent experience in Business, Accounting, or Finance

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in linked to Futures and Derivatives Clearing
• Demonstrate business acumen across treasury management.

• Demonstrated ability to build, maintain relationships with business stakeholders, treasury, and finance groups.
• Experience with futures products from perspective of Clearing Broker, Exchange and or Buy Side
• Experience of margin and collateral processes for Exchange Derivative products and associated regulatory requirements.
• Track record of the ability to create and use of key productivity indicator metrics (KPIs)
• Track record of the ability to create and use of key risk indicator metrics (KRIs)

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Time Type:

Job Purpose:

You will play a pivotal part in helping to support the lifecycle of a trade, focusing on controls, reconciliations, and treasury management. Working closely with Business partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure all transactions flow through our front to back Operations teams, with no issues.

You will develop a broad and detailed understanding of the organization’s landscape, culture, processes, and Technology.

You will have the opportunity to recommend creative suggestions on how to improve processes to minimize losses from failed internal processes, inadequate controls, and emerging risk better serve our clients.

Job Requirements

• Daily monitoring and processing of exchange, central clearing house margin calls
• Creation and input into associated metrics to enable productivity measurement.
• Liaison with Finance teams regarding applicability and validity of monthly Adjustments
• Execution of collateral asset movements and associated monitoring
• Ensure adherence to our regulatory requirements and understand these, always follow key processes and control requirement.
• Ability to communicate complex processes and workflows.
• Escalate clearly and promptly.
• Investigation and resolution of breaks with Exchanges, Brokers, and Affiliates
• Improvement of daily processing to increase efficiency, identify where automation is required and drive solutions to completion.
• Ensure Standard Operating procedures are up to date and cover all functions, understand, and follow Citi policies and standards.
• Participation and ability to drive change initiatives both global strategic and regional discretionary and mandatory.
• Partner effectively with Business stakeholders, technology groups, finance, and compliance teams. Regionally across Asia and Globally.
• Required to have the ability to work autonomously and as an effective team member.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant Industry Experience: minimum of 3 years relevant experience in Financial Organization i.e. Investment Banking / Investment Management / Hedge Fund / Exchange
• Communication Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial concepts clearly and effectively to a diverse audience.
• Problem-Solving: Proven track record of resolving issues efficiently and effectively, able to drill into the details, and address the root cause.
• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in communications, transactions, and reporting.
• Ability to write business development requirements to initiate change and automation requests across technology stacks as well as low code automation solutions.
• Be familiar with the associated regulatory obligations across client money rules and margin calls across the Asian futures and derivative markets.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Bachelor’s Degree/University degree or equivalent experience in Business, Accounting, or Finance

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in linked to Futures and Derivatives Clearing

• Demonstrated ability to build, maintain relationships with business stakeholders, treasury, and finance groups.
• Experience with futures products from perspective of Clearing Broker, Exchange and or Buy Side
• Experience of margin and collateral processes for Exchange Derivative products and associated regulatory requirements.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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The Apps Support Sr Analyst is a seasoned professional role. Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits. Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization. Work and performance of all teams in the area are directly affected by the performance of the individual.Responsibilities:

• The Application Support Senior Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applcations. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness improvements to help us and the business succeed.
• Maintains application systems that have completed the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
• Manages, maintains and supports applications and their operating environments, focusing on stability, quality and functionality against service level expectations.
• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.
• Perform same day risk reconciliations
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Identifies ways to maximize the potential of the applications used
• Assess risk and impact of production issues and escalate to business and technology management in a timely manner.
• Ensures that storage and archiving procedures are in place and functioning correctly
• Formulates and defines scope and objectives for complex application enhancements and problem resolution
• Reviews and develops application contingency planning to ensure availability to users.
• Partners with appropriate development and production support areas to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
• Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
• Engages in post implementation analysis to ensure successful system design and functionality.
• Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment. Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact.
• Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
• Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors.
• Expected to be able to raise problems to appropriate technology and business teams, while adhering to Service Level Agreements.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts.
• Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.
• Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years experience in an Application Support role.
• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.
• Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn.
• Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization
• Effective written and verbal communications including ability to explain technical issues in simple terms that non-IT staff can understand.
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Issue tracking and reporting using tools
• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.
• Good all-round technical skills
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Ability to plan and organize workload
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholde

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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Whether you are at the start of your career or looking to discover your next adventure, your story begins here. At

Wealth Products and Operations Control Testing Leader –Hybrid(Internal Job Title: Quality Assurance, Monitoring & Testing Lead Analyst - C13) based in. Being part of our team means that we will provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future. For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.
• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.
• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.

This position reports to the Wealth Products and Operations Control Testing Head within the Citi COO organization’s Central Testing Utility; and is an execution-oriented individual contributor position accountable for end-to-end controls monitoring of the Wealth Products and Operations department – i.e., operational controls performance assurance/testing – which includes design, execution, results reporting, and insight sharing related to the above scope of controls monitoring/testing.

Excellent communication skills required to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence and convince others, particularly colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Accountable for significant controls testing results and advice regarding the controls execution. Necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy.

In this role, you are expected to be:

• Supports the Controls Testing Utility by acting on assessing control design, designing control testing tools, developing control testing procedures, ensure control testing transitions, dispositioning exceptions, and developing insights.
• Carries key responsibility for Control Design Assessment (CDA) by executing CDA checklist/procedures for controls and recording results in Citi Risk & Control (CRC).
• Owns significant portions of control testing design activity, which includes writing control testing tool descriptions, and completing control testing and QUEST setup.
• Develops control testing procedures in Confluence and is responsible for obtaining necessary signoffs from covered businesses and functions.
• Performs a uniquely significant role on training Central Execution team overseas on all designed control testing tools and established control testing procedures.
• Has the ultimate decision on controls testing outlier disputes, holds the responsibility to raise concerns through IMPACT Concerns or QUEST Observation Logs based on the Business.
• Creates materials for Operational Risk Forums (ORF) and senior meetings as needed and investigates causes for results that are deviating from trends and escalate situations that pose excessive risk(s).
• Develops and drives quality-checking routines to ensure compliance with all relevant policies, operating guides, and owned control testing.
• Supports team members on topics ranging from control testing design to performance management and control testing platforms basics.
• Helps drive continuous improvements in accuracy, efficiency, timeliness, and quality of MCA control design assessment and controls testing.
• Maintains relationships and drives accountability with partners and stakeholders to drive control testing's success in support of the business's strategy.
• Appropriately assesses risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
• Support other relevant work efforts of the department where needed and as directed by their manager.

As a successful candidate, you would ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• 5+ years relevant experience, 3+ years in Risk & Controls roles.
• Subject matter expert on controls design, execution and/or control testing.
• Excellent understanding of MCA (Managers Control Assessment) frameworks and processes.
• Advanced skills in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS SharePoint.
• Effective communication, written and presentation skills.
• Strong people and relationship management skills with the ability to influence others and foster a sense of collaboration.
• Independent thinker and able to perform a credible challenge ofbusinesses/functions.
• Ability to work effectively on virtual teams, including across different geographies and time zones preferred.
• Investment securities and/or insurance licenses preferred (e.g., Series 7, 9,10, 24, 63, 53, 55, 66, L&H).
• Travel Requirement : Less than 10%.
• Education:Bachelor’s/Universitydegree, Master’s degree preferred.

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Responsibilities:

• Administer branch sales, service, control and management of human resources
• Manage staff to ensure all employees are clear on work priorities and activities, and maintain high levels of customer service
• Execute planning and budgeting activities to ensure branch annual goals are met
• Conduct daily huddles and communicate company goals, business strategies, new initiatives, and expectations to all staff
• Monitor performance to ensure branch metrics are met and appropriate action plans are in place to enhance customer satisfaction
• Oversee branch controls and compliance, to effectively manage risk and ensure positive internal audit ratings
• Identify training needs, identify career progression opportunities and partner with staff to create professional development plans as well as perform supervisory duties including performance evaluations, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations
• Lead the recruitment/selection of staff across sales and operations roles within the branch and onboarding
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of relevant experience required
• Previous experience in banking or financial industry preferred
• Proven experience managing teams
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Consistently demonstrates analytic skills

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) is a market leading, award-winning provider of cash management, cards and trade, solutions to financial institutions, public sector and corporate clients around the world. With a global network spanning 100+ countries, we are uniquely qualified to service clients with local and cross-border interests and provide integrated reporting and management. TTS is a highly innovative organization with a strong digital agenda; new products and services are continuously being developed to meet our clients rapidly evolving treasury requirements and unlock new opportunities for growth.

Description of the Role

This product management role is part of the Global Liquidity and Cash Concentration (‘GLCC’) solutions area. The position entails responsibility for Cash Concentration, Notional Pooling and Real-Time Liquidity Product Management and Commercialization activities for the South Asia cluster encompassing product strategy and performance, product and platform delivery/ rollout, deal management, commercialization risk & control and re-platforming.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy and Performance

• Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap based on market developments & customer needs.
• Provide inputs to investment strategy and prioritization across GLCC solutions in liaison with cluster teams.
• Gather market intelligence and develop market sizing to identify the attractiveness of particular markets segments and product offerings. Define and analyze sector trends, opportunities and issues.
• Plan and execute pricing and expense management initiatives to optimize portfolio performance.
• Drive management visibility of performance drivers and delivery to plan through regular updates and presentations.
• Alignment with multiple stakeholder groups including Global/ Cluster Product partners, Operations, Technology, Sales, Banking, Legal and Risk teams to drive the product agenda.

Product & Platform Development/ Rollouts

• Work with Global Product Development leads to support the rollout of new or enhanced products, features and global platforms to the cluster, while ensuring that all necessary approval requirements and governance processes are adhered to.
• Collaborate with technology, operations and client-facing teams to plan and execute the phased migration of liquidity structures from legacy platforms to global platforms.
• Contribute to the enhancement of digital capabilities and STP processes to improve client experience.

Commercialization

• Drive client usage and commercial success of GLCC products, harnessing data/metrics and through alignment with LMS Solutioning, sales and banking teams.
• Assist sales and relationship managers in identifying client needs and proposing solutions in line with business objectives.
• Develop and update GLCC (including Notional Pooling) client collateral and internal collateral to support value articulation and commercialization efforts.
• Ensure maintenance and updates to product content on internal and external channels.
• Deliver trainings to client-facing teams on product positioning and usage.

Deal Management

• Engage with and support LMS solutioning and client-facing teams on deals and client asks.
• Ongoing support for deals including deal review, pricing approvals and exception handling.
• Recommend and deliver process improvements in collaboration with onboarding, operations, technology and other teams.

Risk and Control

• Build and maintain a pristine risk and controls environment in collaboration with global, and cluster partners.
• Ensure timely and comprehensive Product Approval Program review and Capability Grid updates.
• Appropriate assessment of risks in reviewing and approving deals.
• Ongoing monitoring of the product portfolio vis-à-vis established risk acceptance criteria.
• Driving risk mitigation and remediation efforts in coordination with Legal, Risk, Sales, Banking, Operations and other teams.
• Proactive identification, ownership and management of issues and incidents.
• Contribute towards preparation and support for of audits / regulatory reviews.

Qualifications:

• 3-6 years of experience
• Experience in Product Management and/or Product Development discipline, preferably in Liquidity and Cash Management
• Expertise or knowledge of interest rates and currencies is useful
• Knowledge of Citi and TTS systems and processes is helpful

Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrated analytical and decision-making skills
• Ability to apply ingenuity and creativity to issue resolution
• Solid attention to detail
• Ability to build effective working relationships when engaging across partners
• Ability to articulate views and suggestions in a clear and succinct manner
• Experience with and confidence in delivering presentations
• Positive attitude and result-oriented approach

• Bachelors degreeor equivalent experience.
• Masters degree is good to have.

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