Business Risk Management Associate jobs at Citi Group in United Kingdom, London

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.

The role requires basic commercial awareness, need to have good understanding on CVA or counterparty credit risk, and it requires developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others

What you’ll do:

• Implementing GMR target XVA dashboard in Tableau, in partner with XVA Risk reporting team
• Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of XVA management reporting
• Working with each trading desk to ensure that all relevant market risk factors are properly identified and formally captured in official risk systems
• Investigate XVA Data Quality issues impacting daily risk management, in partner with Asset class XVA risk managers, Risk reporting, Risk Control and IT partners
• Conduct detailed GMR FRTR SA CVA sensitivity UAT, actively follow up with investigation and issue remediation
• Actively participate the FRTB end-to-end process build up, ensure regulatory compliance.
• Support team lead to oversee risk exposure measurement and limit monitoring processes to ensure integrity and appropriate independence of reporting
• Challenge status quo and drive changes to be more efficient in review and challenge 1st line through Data analysis.
• Participate in the ongoing development, implementation and upgrade of risk systems including CRMR/VaR, CRMR/Issuer risk, LimitCentral/Volcker, LimitCentral/issuer risk

What we’ll need from you:

• Solid relevant experience
• Knowledge of financial instruments and risk metrics
• Good understanding in CVA modelling or Counterparty Credit Risk modelling
• Solid understanding on FRTB CVA requirement
• Detail oriented, comfortable working with large amount of data for detailed data analysis.
• Must be a self-starter, proactive, innovative and adaptive with can-do attitude
• Team player, Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent project management skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Excel/VBA, Word, Power Point), SQL, Tableau, Python etc
• Bachelor’s/University degree in a quantitative or financial discipline, Master’s degree preferred

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

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well. By joining Citi London, 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

This role will be based out of the London, UK office.

Strategy and Process

• Drive execution of key strategic initiatives for CCB Globally and across Banking to ensure delivery with high quality, accuracy and timeliness. This will include a combination of leading or supporting projects or initiatives, depending on their nature
• Own the strategic, administrative, operational, and process enhancements on key CCB / Banking processes in partnership with internal other teams e.g. Cluster BE, Coverage, Loans, Resources, Strategy, Risk, Finance, etc.
• Support the Global BE team to articulate strategic priorities, support governance programs & track performance against strategic priorities
• Ensure headcount is accurate, real estate is inventoried and planned, and onboarding and termination of resources are managed effectively
• Manage and coordinate teams of cross-functional stakeholders. Provide strategic direction and accountability across disparate teams to create excellent outcomes
• Independently lead project management of global key enabler workstreams (e.g. internal partnerships, target market framing, product gap analysis, data remediation, etc).

Business Reviews

• Analyze detailed performance metrics to understand business drivers, opportunities & threats. Monitor ongoing performance
• Leverage global data sources to prepare adhoc analysis on key strategic / operational and deliver actionable insights
• Lead/support the development of and production of materials for management presentations, town halls, etc.
• Share best practices within CCB BE broadly and across Banking.

Risk & Controls

• 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:

• Substantial experience in financial services.
• Prior commercial banking experience preferred.
• Connects the dots, is proactive and takes ownership.
• Experience working in global and complex settings with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work in a team of diverse skill sets and cultures.
• Proven ability to work in high-pressure, time-sensitive environments.
• Knowledge of tech-enabled reporting tools.
• Ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts, functional and technical knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills, influence others to achieve business objectives.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

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The UK Financial Insurances Group (FIG) FinTech Investment Banking Senior Associate (the “Associate”) is an intermediate level position responsible for providing strategic advisory services to clients.

The Investment Banking Associate is required to contribute to industry specialist support for FIG/Fintech’s across EMEA and work with Senior Bankers across EMEA in business origination and execution across Citi’s product set, with particular focus on episodic M&A transactions, strategic financing initiatives and access to the capital markets.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage past investment banking or related experience to enhance M&A execution and capital raising capabilities
• Member of deal team for the origination and execution of episodic and Corporate Finance transactions involving clients across EMEA
• Responsible for staying abreast of market and industry trends, “best practices” and competitive landscape
• Day-to-day responsibilities include developing client pitch materials tailored to meet client needs, lead execution of episodic transactions / financings and foster and leverage on-going relationships across the EMEA region
• Responsible for evaluating public filings, research reports, operations, business plans, and financial forecasts to produce strategic and financial analyses
• The Associate will develop (i) in-depth understanding of the dynamics of the business, (ii) an understanding of clients’ priorities with the aim of identifying appropriate marketing opportunities and (iii) strong relationships internally with key product, risk and regional partners.
• Manage and mentor analysts by providing detailed guidance and feedback, managing information flow, and providing credit and exposure information to analyst, as appropriate

Qualifications:

• Strong FIG/Fintech Investment Banking experience
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Experience assisting with client development
• Ability to work under pressure in a rapidly changing environment in order to meet deadlines

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

Honesty, integrity and reputation

Financial soundness

Competence and capability

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, certain Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above. This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, reference checks, credit checks and other background checks. If hired for this role, you will also be required to complete an annual declaration regarding your Fitness and Propriety.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read the information above and that you are applying for a Certified Role. You also agree to Citi carrying out any additional screening required, including permitted criminal record checks, reference checks, credit checks and any other background checks.

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Implement Enhanced Testing and Recovery:

• Oversee the implementation and execution of Production Swing testing for critical applications, ensuring applications run from their alternate site for a minimum of 5 days.

• Implement and oversee Data Recovery testing, ensuring applications can recover critical data from backup solutions within the defined Impact Tolerance (ITOL).

• Drive the onboarding of critical applications to the One-Touch Recovery orchestration solution.

• Minimize the Recovery Time Actual (TRTA) for critical applications.

Design and Architecture:

• Champion resilient application design by advocating for and integrating resiliency principles into architectures, and promoting the use of established resiliency patterns.

• Leverage cloud-native services and features to enhance application resiliency. This includes services for auto-scaling, load balancing, and disaster recovery.

• Explore and implement chaos engineering practices to proactively identify and address system weaknesses under stress.

Proactive Vulnerability Management:

• Proactively identify vulnerabilities through regular architecture reviews, comprehensive scenario testing, and foundational testing.

• Document and demonstrate mitigation efforts for all discovered vulnerabilities. This includes developing remediation plans, implementing necessary changes, and validating the effectiveness of mitigations.

• Ensure that all identified vulnerabilities have remediation plans scheduled.

Operational Resilience Adherence:

• Ensure that all critical applications adhere to operational resilience testing and recovery requirements.

• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to define and maintain appropriate impact tolerances for critical business services.

Performance Measurement and Reporting:

• Monitor and report on key resilience metrics, including the number of applications executing production swing tests, the number of applications on One-ouch Recovery, recovery times and adherence to operational resilience requirements.

• Provide regular updates to senior management on the status of resilience initiatives and key performance indicators.

Key Qualifications:

• Relevant professional software engineering experience - and in particular in SRE roles

• Expertise analyzing complex application, database, network, and OS issues across a distributed large scale customer facing systems

• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical team

• Experience in Java, .NET, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Helm, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS, Splunk, Prometheus

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent field

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

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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.

The Third Parties Audit team provides independent assurance that Citi’s oversight, governance, and risk management frameworks to manage third party risks are designed and operating effectively. This includes the overall governance and operating model, centralized Third Party Management utilities, Inter-affiliate services and on-site audits of significant third parties. The Third parties team also provides expertise, training and guidance on third party risk and regulatory requirements to other Internal Audit teams.

What you’ll do

• Manage a team of Internal Audit professionals, recruit staff, lead professional development, build effective teams and manage a budget

• Deliver audit reports, Internal Audit and Regulatory issue validation and business monitoring and governance committee reports

• Lead reviews for all types of reviews, including the most complex, and review and approve Business Monitoring Quarterly Summaries

• Participate in major business initiatives and pro-actively advise and assist the business on change initiatives

• Implement integrated auditing concepts and technology, and follow trends in the Audit field and adapt them for the Audit function

• Identify solutions for a variety of complex and unique control issues, utilizing complex judgement and sophisticated analytical thought

• Analyze report findings, and recommend interventions where needed, proposing creative and pragmatic solutions to risk and control issues

• Partner with Directors and Managing Directors to develop approaches for addressing broader corporate emerging issues

• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

What we’ll need from you

• Suitable Internal Audit experience ideally coupled with Third Party Management experience/understanding

• Demonstrated successful experience in business, functional and people management

• Subject matter expertise regarding audit technology’s application

• Effective verbal, written and negotiation skills; Effective project management skills; Effective influencing and relationship management skills

• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy; Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision

• Demonstrated ability to remain unbiased in a diverse working environment

• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred

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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.

Counterparty Credit Risk Analytics is a group within Citi Financial Risk Technology, responsible for developing the applications used for derivatives credit risk and exposure calculations Firm-wide.

The Counterparty Credit Risk Developer is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the development and advancement of the derivatives credit risk application.

Core objectives will include developing and maintaining the applications calculating Counterparty Credit Risk metrics. Additional objectives will include the contribution towards application execution analysis reports, monitoring and optimization of the application build and the enhancement of the end-to-end calculation test suite.

What you'll do

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining the Counterparty Credit Risk applications, leveraging in-house Python and C++ model libraries.
• Supporting and improving CI/CD (build, testing and release management).
• Contributing to the codebase to optimize performance and consolidate the workflow across asset classes.
• Extending existing test suites, including unit, regression, and integration tests. Performance and memory profiling. Assisting in the execution of impact analysis testing runs.
• Working on documentation.
• Working with Front Office Quant and Technology teams to integrate model updates and technological enhancements into the application.
• Utilizing in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement.
• Serving as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts.
• Exercising independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acting as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

What we'll need from you

• Demonstrative experience of programming in Python.
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications.
• Familiarity of UNIX shell scripting (bash, ksh etc).
• Proficiency with version control software like Git.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline technologies like Jenkins.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Thorough and detailed approach to accuracy is essential.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Ability to collaborate well working within a large team of developers.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Ability to take ownership and proactively follow up on issues.
• Masters Degree or equivalent in Computer Science. Mathematics, Engineering or Physics

By joining Citi London, 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

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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.

Market risk pertains to potential loss due to market movements such as changes in interest rates, equity prices, credit spreads and foreign exchange rates. Individuals monitor trading limits and are responsible for approving transactions over certain established limits. Work with traders or trading management and recommend actions to mitigate risk. Responsible for monitoring and analysing the organisation’s risk exposure by understanding the risks and rewards of the Citi products. Structures solutions to mitigate risks of those products.

The Market Risk Officer - Digital Assets is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within the evolving field of Digital Assets (primarily Crypto Assets) and contributes to Market Risk Analysis and Management by considering their impact on a stand alone and portfolio basis. Recognized technical authority for the area within the team. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas. Responsible for measuring, monitoring and analysing the organisation’s market risk exposure on a day-to-day and long-term basis for all products that have Digital Asset market risk.

Individuals monitor trading limits and are responsible for approving transactions over certain established limits. Work with traders or trading management and recommend actions to mitigate risk. Responsible for monitoring and analysing the organisation’s risk exposure by understanding the risks and rewards of the Citi products. Structures solutions to mitigate risks of those products.
What you'll do

• Understanding and analysing risks, especially market risks, involved in the bank's digital asset / crypto asset products and projects

• Working with each trading desk to ensure that all relevant market risk factors are properly identified and formally captured in official risk systems

• Working with senior risk managers in Volcker compliance program

• Developing and maintaining an appropriate autonomous market risk limits framework with applicable limits and triggers

• Autonomously monitor business compliance with the firm’s market risk-related policies

• Oversee risk exposure measurement and limit monitoring processes to ensure integrity and appropriate independence of reporting

• Participate in the development of business-level stress testing that properly considers risk concentrations by single issuer, risk rating, sector/industry and geography; review results and assess appropriate follow-up actions

• Participate in the ongoing development, implementation and upgrade of risk systems including CRMR/VaR, CRMR/Issuer risk, LimitCentral/Volcker, LimitCentral/issuer risk

• Small tasks/projects which constitute direct integration with trading businesses and market in general, a fantastic learning opportunity for credit market and products

• Working with senior mentors on well-defined mid to long term projects that require technical skills and strategic planning, enabling development in analytical capacity and critical

• 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

What we need from you

• Demonstrated years of relevant experience

• Degree in a quantitative or financial discipline.

• Knowledge of financial instruments and risk metrics

• Quantitative skills including mathematics involved in risk estimation and modelling

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive

• Ability to work collaboratively and with people at all levels of the organisation •Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to both work collaboratively and autonomously; ability to navigate a complex organisation

• Advanced analytical skills

• Excellent project management and organisational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time

• Proficient in MS Office applications (Excel/VBA, Word, Power Point) and SQL

By joining Citi London, 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 Programme

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

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