Market Operations - Securities Derivatives jobs at Citi Group in United Kingdom, Belfast

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? 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.

Responsibilities:

• Resolve settlement issues, and serve as a SME (subject matter expert) to interpret against policies, guidelines or processes; escalate complex issues as needed
• Analyze data using data analysis tools and methodologies to make process improvement recommendations to senior management
• Utilize understanding of securities and derivatives settlement activities to interpret data, prepare reports, and present findings to management
• Identify policy gaps and formulate policies to aid in the streamlining of related work processes
• Assist with the implementation of assigned projects, including trade flow process enhancement initiatives
• Interpret data to make recommendations for launching new products, services, and upgraded platforms
• Provide informal guidance and on the job training to new team members
• Minimizes risk to the bank by monitoring/providing solutions to errors and adhering to audit and control policies
• 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:

• Relevant experience
• Previous people management experience
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication 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.

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Other Relevant Skills

Responsibilities:

• Manage a small team of internal audit professionals that performs moderately complex global markets related (products as well as cross function) audits
• Complete assigned audits within budgeted timeframes, and budgeted costs
• Monitor, assess, and recommend solutions to emerging risks
• Contribute to the development of audit processes improvements, including the development of automated routines to help focus audit testing
• Draft audit reports, and present issues to the business while discussing practical cross-functional solutions
• Recommend appropriate and pragmatic solutions to risk and control issues
• Apply understanding of internal audit standards, policies, and local regulations to provide timely audit assurance
• Develop internal audit staff, and provide coaching to 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, 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
• Effective verbal, written and negotiation skills
• Effective project management skills
• Effective influencing and relationship management skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s/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.

Time Type:

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.

Disclosures & Disclaimer Management

• Support the development of a framework for the ongoing management of client disclosures and disclaimers, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Implement corrective action steps related to the structured communications project to address identified gaps

• Collaborate across multiple stakeholders in Markets and across the Clusters to ensure consistent and effective client communication strategies.

Risk Assessment

• Evaluate existing Customer Protection & Market Practices- related policies and procedures, identifying discrepancies and recommending improvements to align with current control frameworks.

• Executing improvements in the risk assessment framework with a data driven approach to reach the target state.

• Conduct deep-dive analyses of emerging risks and control gaps within market practices and customer protection, proposing innovative solutions to mitigate these risks.

• Participate in Continuous Risk Monitoring and support Annual Risk Assessment requirements

Governance

• Present to senior management, providing regular updates on key risk indicators and control effectiveness

• Participate in ad-hoc projects and initiatives related to Customer Protection & Market Practices risk management as assigned by senior management.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant regulations and industry best practices, ensuring Customer Protection & Market Practices Risk activities remain compliant.

What we’ll need from you

• Experience in risk management, compliance, or a related field, with a focus on market practices or customer protection.

• Demonstrate an understanding of risk and control principles, including risk assessments, controls design assessments, controls operating effectiveness, and reporting activities.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and identify key trends and patterns.

• Good communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly and concisely.

• Ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Strong work ethic, personal initiative, and a high degree of professionalism.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint, with experience in data analysis and visualization tools.

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Time Type:

Responsibilities

• Partner with the development teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Build and provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Develop knowledge of system flow and adopt best practice for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of the bank, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
• Working with the team to define the architecture, design, development, code review, testing and maintenance of applications.

What you will bring to the role

You will have experience in building high-performing, scalable and enterprise-grade applications adopting best-in-class engineering practices. These are high profile applications that offer you the opportunity to shape the future technical direction and take ownership of functional components. You'll work in a collaborative, respecting, trusting and diverse environment that encourages creative thinking and critical problem solving that are best in class, to serve our clients globally.

Experience required

• Strong knowledge on Java / Kotlin and restful web services including its data interchange format/definition such as XML, JSON.
• Microservices systems
• Kubernetes/Open shift containers.
• Familiar with different persistent storage technologies such as RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Experience working with source code management tools – Git or Bitbucket.
• Good understanding of clean coding principles.
• Must demonstrate strong familiarity of design patterns.
• Proven experience of applying TDD and BDD practices and maintaining clean CI/CD pipelines

Bonus points for

• Understanding of Equity Derivatives technology or experience with other asset classes within Markets
• Kotlin development experience
• Knowledge of Equity Derivatives products and product lifecycle
• Experience working with UI frameworks such as React or Angular
• Experience working with OpenShift / Kubernetes or other Cloud platforms

Education:

• University degree or equivalent experience operating in a similar role

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

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Time Type:

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.

Responsibilities:

• Process securities transactions, provide analytic input for traders and aid in review of derivative products

• Utilize data analysis tools and methodologies, in conjunction with professional judgement to make process improvement recommendations

• Resolve settlement related issues and escalate as needed; recommend solutions to resolve complex issues

• Participate in the implementation of assigned projects, including new products, services and upgrades to platforms

• Identify policy gaps and formulate new policies to enhance the streamlining of trade flow processes

• Monitor and provide solutions to errors to minimize risk to the bank

• Provide informal guidance, and/or on the job training to new 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:

• Relevant experience

• Demonstrated comprehension of Treasury products, accounting and regulatory policies

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree/University degree or equivalent experience in Business, Accounting, or Finance

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

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Time Type:

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring –your strong global banking experience along with thorough understanding of banking data structures and products. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level

By Joining Citi(Belfast),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.

This ORM Foundational and Capital / Stress Testing Data role will be responsible for managing ORMs foundational and Capital / Stress Testing Data and Infrastructure. The focus would be on data quality, data governance, master data management, data conversion and reconciliation, and defining common intake and output templates for all inbound and outbound integrations for Foundational and Capital/Stress Testing infrastructure.

What you’ll do:

• Responsible for helping drive upstream and downstream adherence to data standards.
• Partners with finance, technology and external providers in delivery of role.
• Often requires development of new concepts and approaches to solving issues affecting data.
• Develops and maintains relationships across the business users and Lines of Defense to better understand and deliver customer requirements by responding to changes in the internal and external business environment
• 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

What we’ll need from you:

• Solid experience navigating and networking across an enterprise utilizing internal and external resources within Operational Risk / Capital / Stress Testing experience preferred.
• Previous experience in data quality, data governance, master data management, data conversion and reconciliation roles.
• Strong global banking experience along with through understanding of banking data structures and products.
• Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level.

By joiningCiti Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources.

Time Type:

The role entails ensuring that all trades for Foreign Exchange product are settled in a timely manner and the resolution of queries covering all areas of pre-settlement matching, settlement processing and post-settlement investigations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for processing of large volumes of high value transactions
• Ensuring established controls and procedures are adhered to.
• Capable of making appropriate decisions in line with critical deadlines, high value of trades and sensitive clients.
• Manage all exceptions to KRI’s
• Ensuring that all deadlines are met, all unmatched and failed trades are investigated and satisfactorily resolved
• Continuous liaison with Internal and External clients and counterparties, including escalation, resolution and appropriate follow up.
• Maintain a high level of client service and support, to external clients/counterparties, other market participants and key Citi staff.
• Build strong relationships with other areas, including regular communication with the front office/trading floor.
• Ensures the quality and service of own work
• Applies working knowledge of technical and professional principles and concepts and in-depth knowledge of team objectives.
• Applies knowledge to provide value-added perspectives or advice. Interprets data and contributes to recommendations for process improvement.
• Ensuring personal compliance while applying critical thinking to all controls and procedures in place in the department, looking to not only follow them but improve them where possible.

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

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Time Type: