Investment Banking Associate - Financial Institutions Group Fig jobs at Citi Group in United States, New York

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The Sec & Derivat Intmd Assoc Analyst is responsible for producing daily metrics and analyzing variances to ensure the Markets Treasury Trading desk has accurate reporting of their trading positions.Responsibilities:

• Utilize basic industry and business knowledge to contribute to the creation of customized reporting used to present information to traders and management teams
• Review and analyze FXMM trade activities to reconcile daily movements
• Support implementation of processing improvements
• Maintain accurate client information
• Provide informal guidance or on the job training to new team members when required
• 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:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• Strong technical skills in MS Excel and MS Access
• Thinks logically and is good at problem solving
• 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.

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Lead and Oversee:

Work with Finance colleagues to ensure that balance sheet substantiation is complete and that controls are designed effectively

Oversee and co-ordinate all account owner activity across Markets Operations. Includes but not limited to:

Understand and maintain Operations chart of accounts

Set a framework to ensure consistent roles and responsibilities for all Markets Ops staff as it pertains to how we control our account population and reconciliations requirements

Work with Markets Ops global functional managers to understand reasons for exceptions and breaks, ensuring issues are escalated timely, fixed at the root cause and look across for similar themes

Ensure well defined and documented processes are in place for reserve calculations across Markets Operations. Identify opportunities to reduce aged exceptions to reduce reserves

Review account ownership to ensure that the proofing processes are standard in their application and where relevant centralize these processes to drive efficiencies

Partnership with other functions to support a strong end to end control environment:

Work with Finance and Operations Risk & Control to ensure Markets Operations are compliant with relevant policies and standards

Partner with Balance Sheet Control and risk reporting to support accurate and timely exceptions reporting

Work with Front office to ensure upstream data and processes are understood and robust so as to prevent downstream issues from occurring

Drive progress on areas of improvement:

Work with Technology and internal partners to build a standard mechanism to accrue for and then pay/receive interest between internal desks/accounts across all products in Markets

Implement best practices to ensure reconciliations are correctly designed and compliant with relevant standards and controls

Promote development and retention of account and reconciliation SME’s across the group

Strengthen issue management processes, ensure emerging risks are correctly escalated with the appropriate level of urgency

Lead and oversee Markets Operations’ involvement in firm-wide programs related to accounting and book and records matters (e.g. Strategic Ledger). Represent Markets Operations at firmwide governance forums such as the Enterprise Design Authority.

10+ years relevant experience

Industry expertise in financial accounting and the operational aspects of books and records management and account management

Experience as finance professional / background / degree and working experience in Technology creating products set up, UAT working with Finance / Market Ops people and understanding of products will be valuable.

Articulates clearly how risk technology supports unit's business, as well as the issues due to gaps between the current technology and known business requirements.

Well-versed in reviewing the dimensions of franchise risk.

Strong Leadership skills-Operates as a leader.

Serves as a point of escalation for key issues or time sensitive decisions.

Acts decisively in high risk scenarios, assessing a situation based on available data, experience, intuition, and judgment.

Demonstrated ability to make sound judgment calls on issues that can be both quantitative and qualitative in nature.

Able to manage issues associated with operational risk capital, in partnership with the business, Finance and the Risk organization.

Acts as a role model for managing people, coaching, and serving as a mentor.

Excellent Communications skills verbal & written. Active listening skills.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

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The Business Risk and Control Group Manager is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities:

• Guide and influence governance and the facilitation of the execution of the Manager Control Assessment (MCA, i.e.. Risk & Control Self-Assessment) as required by the MCA Standard including the assessment and appropriate approval of risk associated with business changes.
• Responsible for the quality, completeness, and accuracy of the implementation of the Control Framework, including Risk Control Policy, Control Standard, Issue Management Policy, Lesson Learned Policy and Control Inventory.
• Manage and allocate resource for the identification of issue root cause, partnering with control and process owners to recommendations holistic corrective actions and improvements, provide check and challenge to ensure appropriate escalation in according with Issue Management and Escalation Policies.
• Assist in directing teams in the implementation of the Lessons Learned Policy, including monitoring of control breaches and dissemination and learnings across other business units for process improvement to limit the occurrence of similar future events and where similar risk exposure might exist.
• Support review and challenge, within the FLUs, on the effective design and management of controls to mitigate risks as required by the Control Standards, including implementation and operation, conducting the control monitoring, handling deficiencies, and escalating issues for resolution.
• Direct teams on the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the MCA through controls prior to the execution of a process (QC).
• Assess adherence to the MCA Standard through controls after the execution of a process (QA).
• Exercise control over Operational and Compliance Risk in accordance with established Policy requirements.
• Allocate resource to identify, assess, escalate, and manage risk exposures across Risk Categories (Operational Compliance, Strategic, Reputational, etc), including material, emerging and concentration risks in accordance with enterprise Policies and the establishment of Key Indicators to monitor risk exposures.
• Assess Risk Appetite and monitor / assess exposures against this in accordance with enterprise requirements (if applicable).
• Take ownership to identify, assess, record and response to Operational and Compliance Risk events, ensuring these are captured accurately, timely and in accordance with requirements.
• Responsible that adequate governance and training are in place to support management of Risk profiles.
• Assess the risks associated with New Activities and changes to the Business, ensuring these are well understood and adequately controlled (if applicable).
• Support operational risk scenario analysis and stress testing for Operational Risk Capital requirements.
• Take ownership of risk and control assessments or coordination for programs within various risk stripes and ensure sufficient subject matter expertise exists to enable management of these risks within the Business (e.g. third party, fraud, sanctions etc) (if applicable).
• Take ownership to ensure that risk and control responsibilities and accountabilities are embedded within FLUs, including providing training and leading by example.
• Guide and influence standards and procedures that conform to enterprise requirements and support sound operational and compliance risk management.
• Apply knowledge of the business, products or services to identify and implement control points and processes throughout the business.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience
• Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary.
• Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Education:

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

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In this role, you are expected to:

• Effectively and proactively communicates with candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers regarding their status and questions within the recruitment lifecycle, especially related to progress of interview scheduling, offer letters, pre-employment and pre-offer checks, and onboarding;
• Schedules interviews between candidates and Citi employees of varying seniority levels;
• Generates employment agreement letters, including those that include complex terminologies and legal terms & conditions;
• Completes hiring transaction of candidates and processes recruitment-related invoice and payment requests within agreed turnaround time;
• Ensures 100% compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements and guidelines, including those pertaining to immigration and work authorization;
• Acts as a change agent–identifies process gaps, trends, or anomalies, and recommends improvements to existing practices; and
• Supports the Lateral and/or Campus Talent Acquisition Teams through ad-hoc support, including but not limited to:
  • Recruiting event participation and coordination
  • Site-specific reporting activities and forms completion
  • Supporting and managing ad-hoc projects together with HRSS Business Analysts and Recruiting Teams

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure

• Willing to take on 6 - months project employment
• Has at least one (1) to three (3) years of experience in recruiting and/or staffing, preferably within the Banking or Financial Services industry;
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, following a global service delivery model;
• Has good communication skills in English, both in oral and written forms;
• Is customer-focused and detail-oriented;
• Has effective interpersonal skills and with proven ability to build and maintain strong virtual and in-person relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners;
• Is team-oriented, with the ability to flex in support of timelines and deliverables;
• Has the ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive information with tact and discretion;
• Has demonstrable proficiency in using HR systems and communication tools, preferably Workday Recruiting and Zoom, among others; and
• Is adept in using Microsoft Office Suite.

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Time Type:

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the first point of contact for Citi clients and provide a positive first impression through friendly and efficient customer service
• Perform efficient and accurate banking transactions including, managing cash supply for the branch, incoming/outgoing cash deposits, and maintaining branch vault cash
• Identify referral opportunities for new products and services based on client’s financial goals
• Educate clients on digital and self-service opportunities offered by Citi
• Adhere to bank policies, operational controls, and regulatory procedures to ensure the safety and security of client and bank assets
• Ensure all client needs are met and effectively manage client issues/concerns, escalating as needed
• Maintain working knowledge of client accounts as well as new and existing products and services offered.
• Fulfilling the clients’ necessities while providing an exceptional client experience is the expected behavior from all our employees and it will be measured by specific metrics.
• 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:

• Previous relevant experience preferred
• Demonstrated sales and customer service experience
• Money handling experience
• Effective problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to work well in a team oriented environment

Education:

• High School diploma or equivalent

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:

Salary shown is for full-time positions and will be prorated for part-time hires based on number of hours worked.

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The origination function within Global Money Markets is responsible for:

• Identifying potential business opportunities by working with Banking and Capital Markets product partners
• Developing relationships with existing and potential issuer clients, providing them with information and market knowledge
• Pitching new business opportunities
• Working directly with clients, legal counsel and internal functions to negotiate and document new commercial paper programs
• Reviewing and executing amendments for existing commercial paper programs
• Enhancing investor client coverage by coordinating with sales to expand credit approval and build relationships with credit teams at key clients
• Coordinating with Banking on issuer client coverage and relationship matters

The Associate role is focused on client coverage and transaction execution for new issuers and helping to coordinate our investor marketing effort with buy-side firms.

Qualifications:

• Three to seven years of experience as an Analyst or Associate in capital markets or banking
• Proven success working with a team and learning in a team-oriented environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to work under pressure and with time constraints
• Knowledge of short-term products, specifically U.S. and European commercial paper
• Existing relationships with commercial paper issuers and investors preferred but not required
• Familiarity with the documentation process in fixed income products
• Strong relationship building and sales skills
• High levels of energy, engagement and integrity
• Self-motivated
• BS/BA degree
• Series 7, 63 and 79 preferred

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