Jobs at Citi Group in Switzerland, Zurich

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

What you’ll do

• Play a leading role in client dialogue relating to Citi’s Swiss offering, highlighting the value proposition and matching solutions to client needs.

• Develop a strong understanding of the application architecture for Citi’s Switzerland Franchise business delivery and the end to end Experience of clients when using Citi’s solutions.

• Management of the P & L ensuring business drivers are fully analysed and understood to manage and grow the business

• Lead on regulatory and scheme liaison and ensure Citi is well placed to execute against all regulatory and market requirements.

• Lead on the management of the Controls environment including the delivery of an Operationally Resilient service.

• Ensure Citi has the right capabilities and features across its payments offering to deliver value to clients in the Switzerland payments market.

What we’ll need from you

• Extensive relevant experience and an in-depth understanding of the Swiss Transaction banking market for payments. Some experience of managing Real Time payments services would also be beneficial.

• Experience with partnership management and business development planning

• Strong client management skills and track record of delivery within a range of customer segments.

• Ability to apply ingenuity and creativity to problem analysis and resolution for complicated and/or unique situations

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate and influence at all levels

• Risk management mindset. Experience in assessing, documenting and managing business risk as part of a product organisation.

• Ability to work as part of a team, with a high degree of collaboration with cross functional teams

• Fluency in Swiss German preferred

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We're committed to teaching you the ropes. The duration for this placement is 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze company information to assist transactions, including conducting industry research, revising and organizing financial data

• Analyze financial data and develop financial models including company valuations, discounted cash flow analysis, financing and comparative analyses

• Create and finalize new business development presentations

• Coordinate tasks with internal and external working teams

• Prepare required internal documentation e.g. control and compliance regulations

Qualifications

• You are in your final year of university/or graduated

• Expected to achieve or have achieved a UK 2:1 above (or equivalent) Switzerland Grade 5 above at undergraduate level in a degree discipline

• Interest in business

• Strong academics

• You are fluent in English & German

Additional Requirements

• Desire to develop a deep understanding of the financial industry

• Intellectual curiosity and proactive approach to searching for new and creative ideas

• Strong communication, planning, and organizational skills

• Commitment to personal growth and career development including mobility and flexibility.

• You also have a strong desire to learn, are proactive, building rapport and relationships in team environments

• Unquestioned commitment to integrity and ethical decision-making

We will recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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 Financial Institutions Zürich-based Director level banker position is responsible for accomplishing results by providing Swiss-based clients with seamless coverage across the full suite of Citi products (across Banking, Markets and Services), deliver corporate finance and capital raising advice in close coordination with product and sector specialists. The overall objective of this role is to deliver Citi’s solutions and geographic breadth to public sector and private clients, as well as support the management of the Swiss FIG franchises from a risk, capital, control and governance perspective.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall parent client relationship management. Provide a wide range of treasury and corporate finance solutions, including cash management, custody, trade, FX/rate/equity derivatives, loan and bond capital market advice.
• Drive client planning, product-agnostic cross-selling, enhance client access and effectively manage capital allocation within the Banking & International Coverage Banker proposition
• Translate Citi’s strategy into an effective and efficient Corporate Bank business plan and drive a healthy balance between near- and long-term priorities
• Responsible for meeting revenue and other goals related to budget, risk management, and capital in partnership with Global Capital Management, Institutional Client Management and Risk; Manage and optimise capital and RWA utilisation across all aspects of the client relationships
• Understand global, regional and local market trends to identify growth opportunities, anticipate obstacles and communicate a forward-looking vision that is responsive to changes in the environment
• Drive innovation, speed to market, create corporate finance content to deliver value-added, differentiated advice
• Work in partnership with Investment Banking and seniors to originate and execute episodic transactions delivering to the client support across all financing, risk management and treasury aspects of the contemplated transactions.
• Drive Network penetration across products for clients that have international needs
• Ensure client relationships and proposed client solutions meet or exceed internal risk and return expectations, allocate capital prudently and in adherence to all Citi policies
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating clear consideration for safeguarding Citi and its reputation by complying with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and policy.
• Apply sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices; escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervising the activity of others and creating accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in people management
• Senior Credit Officer preferred
• In-depth experience advising clients on debt and capital management
• Demonstrated ability to balance between internal management and external client time
• Demonstrated understanding of compliance issues and regulatory requirements (global and local)
• Proven leadership skills and intellectual capability to create momentum and a collective agenda across multiple products with a diverse population and competing priorities
• Demonstrated intellectual grasp of the industry and ability to anticipate and lead the organizational response to future changes and translate vision into executable plans
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with pragmatic approach to ensure limited resources are directed appropriately
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's/MBA degree preferred from a top economics, business, or financial engineering program

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The Private Banker's role is to develop and deliver private and investment banking services to Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) clients within the German market. UHNW is defined as clients with USD 25+ million Net Worth or USD 10+ million.

Responsibilities:

• Build Client Relationships - Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of clients' businesses and sources of wealth generation as well as serve as a trusted advisor to the Private Banks clients.
• Develop Client Solutions - Develop tailored solutions that address clients' unique investment, risk management, and financing/liquidity needs.
• Execute and Drive Results - Set challenging goals, regularly monitoring progress and making adjustments to achieve objectives.
• Teamwork - Help team members to acquire the experience necessary to establish credibility with clients and intermediaries.
• Build & Maintain Relationships with Business Partners, Colleagues and Staff - Develop strong relationships and partners with support functions across the Private Bank to maintain control, find solutions and resolve issues.
• Promote Integrity and Trust - Understand and communicate the risk involved with various investment strategies.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Proven experience in UHNW Private Banking or the institutional/corporate banking market, specifically covering the Swiss market with a focus on the German speaking part of Switzerland.
• Demonstrated track record in relationship acquisition.
• Proven success in building a new business, prospecting for new clients and business, identifying new business opportunities and closing transactions.
• Extensive experience in selling new products, based on client needs.
• Experience in working on teams and influencing diverse resources and stakeholders.

Skills:

• Fluent German and English (written and spoken)
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Thrives in a business development environment
• Strong IT skills including Excel and Word
• Creative and innovative
• Able to multi-task and prioritise
• Strong awareness of risk and compliance

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By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

What you’ll do

• Provides legal advice and support to Country Business and Legal Entity Management on legal and regulatory matters associated with Citi’s business activities and legal entities in the countries covered; ensures that Citi is appropriately addressing legal, regulatory, franchise and reputational risks in these countries

• Supports strategic initiatives of the businesses and functions in countries covered by providing Citi Country Management with guidance and interpretations of relevant laws, rules, regulations, and industry practices, and advising business management on legal matters impacting the business

• Provides accurate and timely legal advice to internal partners, including analysis and monitoring of legal and regulatory developments and advising front, middle and back office in a wide variety of legal matters in close cooperation with Compliance colleagues as well as the Product Legal Teams mainly based in the UK, Ireland and the US

• Supports the Department Head in all Corporate Governance related matters (incl. organization of Board and Shareholders Meetings)

• Supports projects with local, regional and global impact, such as various Outsourcing projects and Digital initiatives with a focus on data privacy/protection, cloud computing and artificial intelligence

• Creates and reviews internal and external legal documentation (incl. client account documents) as well as standard contracts and terms & conditions

• Drafts, reviews and negotiates a broad range of commercial contracts with internal and external clients as well as suppliers to the bank

• Negotiates guarantees, non-disclosure agreements, loan agreements, procurements contracts and other legal documents

• Provides legal advice to Citi colleagues in other jurisdictions with regards to clients based and/or incorporated in Switzerland (e.g. regulatory & corporate governance related queries, trade register)

• Directly liaises with external counsels as well as interaction with Swiss authorities and regulators

• Managing (in cooperation with external counsel) litigation cases (incl. client complaints, HR cases, internal investigations, etc)

• Participating and representing the Swiss Legal Department in various local, regional and global meetings and committees

• Providing legal advice with respect to local and regional/global regulatory projects for all Swiss businesses

• Supporting the Human Resources Department in a variety of employment law related questions

What we’ll need from you

• Post-graduate legal experience in a Swiss Bank (preferably with an international focus) or in a Swiss or International Law Firm (banking experience)

• Expertise in Data Privacy/Protection, Outsourcing, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence would be an advantage

• Experience in Private Banking related issues, preferably in an international environment, would be an advantage

• Proven ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously in a demanding, fast-paced environment

• Comprehensive knowledge of international, multi-jurisdictional laws and practices while staying abreast of regulatory and legal environment, internal policies and industry trends that impact the business

• Languages: Excellent command of English and German (verbally and in writing), additional Swiss language(s) would be an advantage

Competencies

• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, organizational and relationship management skills

• Team player and co-operative, team-oriented work style

• Strong business and legal judgment and commercial attitude

• Focus on risk identification, assessment, management and mitigation as well as analytical approach to identifying, and practical approach to solving issues

• Eager to work independently in a small Team and keen to learn and take on new responsibilities

• Outstanding communication and negotiating skills and ability to work and communicate with all levels of the organization

Education

• Legal qualification from a Swiss University is a requirement

• Swiss Bar would be an advantage

Development Value

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