Investment Banking Senior Associate Communications - New York jobs at Citi Group in United States, New York

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from feasibility studies and cost estimation to deployment, maintenance, and user support. This includes analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to business users, stakeholders, and other technology teams.
• Analyze complex business and system processes, evaluate industry best practices, and recommend innovative programming solutions.
• Design and implement robust security measures throughout the SDLC, ensuring system integrity and data protection.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, coordinating deployments, releases, and associated documentation.
• Collaborate with users, clients, and other technical groups to address issues, propose solutions, and implement systems.
• Define and maintain operating standards and procedures, ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior team members, fostering their professional development.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and sound judgment, making informed decisions that consider business risks and align with company policies and regulations.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for stakeholders and team members.
• Prioritize the firm's reputation and safeguard its assets by adhering to applicable laws, regulations, and ethical guidelines.
• Participate actively in building and maintaining a strong engineering culture.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years of hands-on professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, JavaScript, or React.
• Experience building RESTful APIs using frameworks like Spring.
• Experience working with event-driven systems, microservices, and micro-frontend UIs.
• Proven ability to follow TDD and clean code principles.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and SQL.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS and distributed systems such as Kafka, Kubernetes, S3, DynamoDB, MongoDB, or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience working in the investment banking or financial services industry.
• Experience with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and RESTful web services (XML, JSON).
• Extensive experience with Core Java, including multi-threading and collections framework.
• Deep understanding of persistent storage technologies (RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server).
• Experience in the payments domain.
• Experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and distributed teams.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field involving software programming or systems engineering.

Other Relevant Skills

Responsibilities:

• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in a related role
• Direct hands-on experience in audit and risk management, with technical expertise in financial models.
• Strong understanding of relevant regulations (e.g., SR 11-7, SR 15-18, OCC 11-12) and model development/validation processes in areas such as market risk, credit risk, loss forecasting, AML, Basel, CCAR, or CECL.
• Related certifications (CPA, ACA, CFA, CIA, CISA or similar) preferred
• Demonstrated successful experience in business, functional and people management
• Proven ability to execute concurrently on a portfolio of high quality deliverables according to strict timetables
• Demonstrated ability to implement continuous improvement and innovation in audit tools and techniques
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated ability to remain unbiased in a diverse working environment
• Effective negotiation skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Finance) preferred.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and executing critical core operations activities to maintain a culture and environment where processes, risks, and controls are continually monitored, and potential risks escalated on a timely basis
• Daily collaboration across Markets Treasury Trading and Operations teams to provide solutions and identify/resolve root cause
• Acting as key point of contact for the team across internal and external stakeholders
• Provide guidance and assistance to junior staff
• Identifying trends, synergies, and weaknesses across products and regions
• Oversee the set-up of new client accounts and settlement instructions
• Serve as analytical or procedural expert for Treasury Operations deliverables/initiatives
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement and cultivating a robust service and control environment
• Providing valuable input into strategic initiatives, reducing manual touch points, and aligning tech delivery v. business goals
• 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
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Thinks logically and is good at problem solving. Result orientated.
• Demonstrate sound judgement and a strong risk management mindset, through implementing sound controls and processes.

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.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

The Securities & Derivatives Sr Manager is a senior management level position in Treasury Operations within Markets Operations. The overall objective of this role is to ensure the seamless delivery of FX and MM transactions.Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement business initiatives, client solutions, or projects affiliated with FXMM settlement
• Solve complex inquiries, conduct discovery and complete due diligence activities for client requests
• Provide detailed analysis of escalated issues when necessary and recommend actions for resolution
• Contribute to payment processing standards and expectations for processing teams
• Develop and implement business plans and guidelines that offer solutions and cost saving opportunities
• Manage daily performance related to post-settlement activities of operations processes
• Propose solutions to implement settlement process improvements, client service enhancements, or overall technology enhancements
• Act as an advisor to new/junior staff
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience
• People management and team lead experience
• Thinks logically and is good at problem solving, result oriented
• 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.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

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.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Responsibilities:

• Architect, Design, and implement robust Python-based solution

• Lead global Technology Teams across different time zones, enabling a hybrid work model

• Drive Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) principle-based development and mentor team members to leverage advanced python coding techniques and features

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements

• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards

• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint

• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals

• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary

• Experience in using writing and using shell script and other Linux features

• Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability

• 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:

• Architect, Design, and implement robust Python-based solution

• Lead global Technology Teams across different time zones, enabling a hybrid work model

• Drive Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) principle-based development and mentor team members to leverage advanced python coding techniques and features

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements

• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards

• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint

• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals

• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary

• Experience in using writing and using shell script and other Linux features

• Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability

• 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.

  
  Education:

  Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in STEM.

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

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

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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