Commercial Bank Global Business Execution Partner - Svp jobs at Citi Group in United Kingdom, London

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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Responsibilities:

• Work alongside bankers in underwriting requests for new and existing clients with ownership responsibility for the end to end credit process.
• Lead credit due diligence with clients and perform relevant industry and peer analysis.
• Prepare detailed written credit summaries by analyzing the business, performing detailed financial analysis, interpreting the finance need, identifying the strengths and prevailing risk factors and rendering a final credit decision that meet the Business risk and return goals.
• Prepare credit ratings and financial projections in order to assess the repayment capacity of borrowers.
• Present credit analysis to approval committees and effectively answer questions when challenged.
• Manage, negotiate and execute facility documentation following credit approval.
• Stay abreast of developments within the global economy and designated industries in order to support problem recognition and the directional strategy of the business.
• Ongoing early warning monitoring and the preparation of annual credit reviews for a portfolio of clients.
• Maintain a solid understanding of Citi’s products and services and the unique commercial bank proposition.
• Work with colleagues globally to offer credit solutions to international subsidiaries understanding local market requirements.
• Maintain compliance with Citibank credit policies / practices and regulatory policies, to ensure the business unit is in adherence and receives satisfactory ratings from internal and external auditors.
• Aid business unit goals by continuous identification of process improvements and efficiencies that reduce costs and improve customer service levels. Work with management team on prioritization and implementation of approved actions.
• Provide backup to Credit Underwriting Group Manager, lead projects and initiatives and mentor lower level Credit Officers as needed.
• Other duties as required to assist business unit and company goals

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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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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.

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.

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 UK, Europe and MEA cluster encompassing product strategy and performance, product and platform delivery/ rollout, deal management, commercialization risk & control and re-platforming.

What you’ll do:

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 analyse 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, Operations, Technology, Sales, Banking, Legal and Risk teams to drive the product agenda for the relevant clusters.

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 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.

What we’ll need from you:

• Significant level of expertise and demonstrated 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.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to make complex judgments and to provide solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.

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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Responsibilities:

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
• Utilize 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
• Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• 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 of relevant experience
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Strong understanding and hands-on ability of Java
• Good have experience with Experience with Openshift, Jenkins, Spring, Kafka, Ignite

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.

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Role Overview

The Global Head of Public Sector Group (PSG) is responsible for the global leadership of banking teams that serve central, state, and local governments, public asset managers, state owned enterprises, and development organizations. The role requires extensive engagement internally and externally, developing and maintaining senior client relationships by understanding clients’ needs and delivering the best of Citi. The role has combined direct management responsibility and oversight for of more than 100 bankers globally and requires the integration of shared corporate bankers in every network country, CCO’s as senior PS bankers with the global PS banking team for an effective coverage model. relationships. This role is a member of the Corporate Bank Executive Committee and reports directly to the co-heads of Citi’s Corporate Bank.

Job Description

This global leadership role encompasses strategic business development, client relationship management, and thought leadership within the public sector. The individual will be responsible for the following:

• Attract, develop and retain top, diverse Public Sector banking talent. Foster mentorship and talent management globally for all bankers and CCO’s covering PS.
• Develop and execute a client -driven franchise growth strategy that drives sustainable and profitable growth and maintains and extends leadership wallet share position (top #3)
• Lead team in analyzing market trends to identify growth opportunities and lead co-development of PS segment specific solutions in partnership with key product areas and other industry groups (Examples: Markets solutions JV and JV with industrials on Defense Financing solutions).
• Drive thought leadership and engage in policy development for key themes important to PS clients. Represent Citi and increase brand visibility at key global events.
• Drive effective planning, coordination, oversight and execution of all PS segment growth strategies in partnership with global and regional partners (product, banking, franchise, client, risk, compliance, legal, GGA, etc.).
• Develop senior trusted advisor relationship with key clients and countries consistently seeing them 3 – 4 x a year.
• Work in partnership with CCO’s/International Cluster heads to make sure we achieve Trusted Advisor where needed to drive growth plans .
• Ensure efficient capital allocation and delivery of targeted returns, partnering with GCM and Risk.
• Ensure ethical conduct and transparency in all business practices. Effectively identify, escalate and manage all risk and control issues. Understand and effectively manage the heightened role of franchise risk associated with PS transactions.
• Have a broad, strategic mindset on how PS franchise should connect with all other industry groups and own how to achieve success for all clients and the franchise/countries being served. Actively contribute to all banking key governance forums and strategic planning processes.
• Own strategy development, origination and execution across the entire wallet of all PS clients. Work closely with IB industry groups to identify strategic transactions.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Extensive client interaction at senior level and/or relevant product experience
• Full knowledge of entire suite of products and possess a corporate finance mindset.
• Proven track record of deal origination and structuring.
• Consistently deliver on revenue and budget targets.
• Strong credit skills and experience, particularly for sovereign credits
• Deep geographic, political, macro-economic and cultural understanding of the emerging markets. Deep understanding of US government including key agencies and those of other countries.
• Understanding of the evolving space of development finance and development finance at the regional and country level, in addition to key MDB’s (World Bank, ADB, etc.)

Skills:

• Leadership - Demonstrated ability to lead a large, complex global organization with vision and purpose and proven track record of success.
• Vision and Proactive Action: Ability to quickly translate trends, themes into new business opportunities and re-direct resources to drive executionAnalytical - Assimilating new information quickly and relating it to the needs of the client base.
• Organizational - Managing business across a large client portfolio with diverse client teams.
• Verbal and Written - Communicating the detail of complex client relationship and situations to a broad range of internal contacts.
• Team Player - Strong interpersonal and influencing skills. Someone whose motives and desire to drive collective success for Citi is clearly demonstrated in how they drive the business.

Qualifications:

• Extensive level of experience in financial services, and in serving large and complex clients.
• Experience in people management, both in direct management and in systems leadership across large multi-team groups.
• Strong Corporate Finance and Credit Experience (10+ years). Existing SCO preferred.
• In-depth experience and understanding of banking products – loans / debts (short and long-term), capital management, cash management, trade products; corporate and structured finance; DCM; derivatives products, and investment banking offerings (advisory, equity).
• 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 strategic thinking – ability to create momentum with a collective agenda balancing multiple products, stakeholders and priorities. Translate vision into executable plans.
• Demonstrated intellectual interest in public sector challenges and topics, and a willingness to lead Citi’s organizational response to future changes.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with a pragmatic approach to optimizing limited resources.
• FINRA licenses (SIE, S79, S63, S24) if based in the US.

Education:

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

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

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, 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, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

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The Business Risk Senior 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:

• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of key changes to the business by leading Global Change Management (GCM) process
• Creating and managing end to end calendar with critical steps, dependencies and dates
• Hosting kick-off calls with change owner to gather stakeholders, begin impact assessment and identify leads from each functional group to be part of the project
• Help change owners craft clear messages that address all stakeholder questions (including Legal & Compliance)
• Build and develop partnerships with potential initiators/ change owners, channel leads and stakeholders by:
• Provide ongoing 1:1 consultative training to change owners on both process and tools during the course of their GCM, as well as provide general training to raise awareness of GCM process
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional meetings
• Assist in awareness campaigns and communications of Global Change Management objectives, process
• Develop analytics and reporting to track effectiveness of process and identify potential process improvements
• Contribute to developing enhancements of Work Flow Management tool
• Provide thought leadership in continually reviewing process and identifying improvements
• 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:

• Project Management experience in financial services, control compliance or legal disciplines
• Experience with work-flow systems
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Outstanding relationship building and relationship management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with an emphasis on MS Excel
• Self-motivated and detail oriented

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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