Product Developer Director jobs at Citi Group in United Kingdom, London

This role is the EMEA head of Production Services for Citi’s Crown Jewel - Treasury and Trade Services (TTS) Payment Technology and involves the following responsibilities:

• Senior Stakeholder management - facing off to cluster heads, payments product EXCO, technology & ops heads

• Production Management for the complex and diverse EMEA clusters - 50 countries encompassing 350 production applications, multiple branches, Critical Business Services and FMIs & Clearing systems.

• Manage the complex Payments Regulatory Environment for UK and CEP legal entities – responsible for ensuring accurate and timely PSD and DORA reporting.

• Director level senior coverage for EMEA overlapping with NAM and Asia; this will allow us provide global follow the sun senior management capability for payments production management

• Responsible for EMEA rollouts of modernized strategic payment platforms

• Drive stability and resiliency across EMEA payment flows

Additional Responsibilities:

• Establishes strategic plans for function.

• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.

• Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate with external parties

• Management responsibility for a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

• Performs other duties and functions as assigned

• Own and lead disaster recovery plans.

• Lead and deliver local staff forums, present global, regional and location news encouraging global collaboration.

• Contribute to define and Implement standard methodologies for the department. Ensure transparency and consistency across teams in the region and globally.

• Ensure team adheres to standard methodologies and process including driving compliance to clockwork, resilience and capacity planning

• Develop positive relationship with the infrastructure & other functional support teams to drive efficiency

• Set measurable / challenging goals for self and team ensuring continuous improvement and self-development of staff

• Ensure development plans are in place for staff

Qualifications:

• Relevant advanced level experience in a leadership role, with extensive experience in business, functional and people management.

• Experience of senior stakeholder management

• Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail

• Process driven approach with an appreciation of industry best practice

• Detailed-oriented, with strong analytical skills

• Develops and maintains effective and positive working relationship with peers, stakeholders and management

• Pro-active, organized, thorough and energetic

• Excellent communicator, presenting to senior management level stakeholders

• Manager of managers in a diverse distributed environment

• Demonstrable track record of impactful organizational improvement

• Demonstrable senior Application Support or Project Management experience relating to distributed teams and managing managers

• Drive and determination: Demonstrates self-motivation and drive and shows determination to achieve goals

• 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 stakeholders

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree/ Master’s degree preferred and managerial experience

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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The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that Fixed Income products trade forever, driving a need for real-time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, Citi is a major key player.

Job Responsibilities / Role:

• Designing and developing Algo trading applications for the business
• Working directly with Traders and Quants to contribute towards the future direction of the platform.
• Improve the technical capabilities of the platform to ensure it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable.
• Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best
• Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process
• Serving as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
• Engaging with business users in London and across Europe (Paris, Milan)
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours
• Acting as Subject Matter Expert to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Liaising with the global business, support, and development teams on various exciting projects

Job Opportunities:

• Build a strong profile in a high-performance global team (London, Paris, NY)
• Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
• Work on a globally distributed team to deliver the next generation Algo platform for traders at Citi.
• Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.

Required

• 10+ years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading and any relational database
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

Preferred

• Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux
• Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience in building systems with an attention to optimizing and tuning performance, while also demonstrating critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
• Prior experience in building algo trading systems is highly desirable
• Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
• Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming
• Experience with ION Trading solutions
• Knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (e.g.,EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SASetc.) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
• Experience of KDB
• Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Worked in an Agile globally distributed team using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar & Jenkins
• Worked with tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.,
• Experience on JSON/XML and REST service

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.
• Good team-work skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with the determination to learn and achieve his/her goals
• Experience in full lifecycle development
• Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her colleagues from a technical perspective.

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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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.

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.

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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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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This role will be to drive development and design of the Equities' Risk Management Architecture. The role requires a recognized subject matter expert of Risk Management and associated Risk architecture design as well as strong commercial awareness, to drive prioritization to achieve the business objectives. First-hand experience in trading derivatives and risk platform development will be a pre-requisite. Excellent communication skills are required to negotiate and challenge internally, often at a senior level. The person in the role is expected to provide advanced judgment and conduct in-depth quantitative or qualitative analysis to solve problems and develop new, innovative solutions. They are required to think beyond existing solutions or assumptions, to drive strategic progress. There will be a significant impact on the growth of the Equities business through making those decisions that determine how the business represents and manages risk across all its trading products.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all activities related to the development of new products and/or features and functionality of products including developing business cases, requirements definition (BRDs), product enhancements innovation, feature and functionality definition based on market and industry research and trends and client needs

• This role manages the end-to-end product development lifecycle and will also scope product releases, agreeing to and tracking business priorities, incorporating regulatory and compliance requirements and investment tracking

• This role will also define and manage product development processes, scope product releases, identify new opportunities to address business priorities, incorporating regulatory and compliance requirements and investment tracking

• Creates a product vision aligned to business priorities and corresponding roadmap to delivery

• Follows market, industry, and client trends to own field and adapts them for application Citi’s products and solutions platforms

• Conceptualizes, plans, prioritizes, coordinates design and delivery of products or features to product release, and serves as product ambassador within user community

• Works in close co-ordination with Technology, Business Managers, Sales and senior stakeholders to fulfil the delivery objectives

• Manages and implements a wide variety of products and solutions

• Has responsibility to deliver significant direct business results and authoritative advice regarding product development that necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy

• Partners with senior business leaders and a widely distributed global user community to define and implement solutions

• Creates clear and specific project plans, business, and technical requirements documents for product execution

• Has direct interaction with business managers, technology, and sales to understand their long-term vision, discuss industry trends, and incorporate them into the product & solutions strategy

• Focuses on controls and governance, including performing Need-to-Know based security and access reviews, Access Approvals, controls testing and documentation

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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:

• Detailed and extensive experience in Derivatives Trading and platform development

• Proven track record of successfully managing in a large and complex business

• Intellectual curiosity, analytical and conceptual

• Proactively seeks and develops new opportunities

• Thorough financial acumen and P&L management experience

• Excellent analytical, interpretive and problem-solving skills

• Proven track record of bringing diverse groups and perspectives to work against a common goal

• Ability to maintain momentum and minimize client attrition

• Ability to establish and maintain senior client relationships and to work across multiple facets of Citi businesses

• Process Management knowledge with a propensity for detail and comprehensiveness of content

• Ability to collaborate and clearly communicate with senior members of an organization

• Project Management skills with experience leading large cross functional initiatives

• Proven track record as change agent, with ability to encourage and embrace innovative ideas and solutions

• Knowledge of Forecasting platforms, database management and tools is preferred, not required

• Self-aware with ability to adapt to various situations, rapidly assimilate and report on complex information while creating a future vision

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree or equivalent preferred

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

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

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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