Citi Group Senior Lead Counsel - Country C15 CIUDAD DE MEXICO 

Mexico, Mexico City 

194383491

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing legal counsel to the Citi Country Cluster Head, Citi Country Officer and country senior management, control functions and businesses on legal, regulatory and franchise matters associated with Citi’s business activities in the countries covered; ensuring that Citi is appropriately addressing legal, regulatory and franchise risks in these countries, consulting with Regional Country Counsel as appropriate
• Support strategic initiatives of the businesses and functions in countries covered by providing subject matter expertise and interpretations of relevant laws, rules, regulations, and industry practices, and advising business management/leadership on all manner of legal matters impacting the business
• Drives the provision of internal and external legal support to Citi’s local businesses inCOUNTRY/GEOGRAPHY, working closely with the relevant Regional General Counsel (or his or her designee) to ensure that Citi’s legal needs are met in a cost-effective manner
• Develop subject matter expertise of Citi’s businesses in theCOUNTRY/GEOGRAPHYand of the major legal and regulatory risks facing those businesses and/or the Citi franchise
• Ensure business decisions are made with legal guidance; applying institutional knowledge against industry standard, widely accepted business practices, laws, rules, and regulatory guidelines; identifying when to escalate when necessary
• Drive collaboration across internal lines of business and control/support functions to achieve coordinated and efficient outcomes on matters of common interest; coordinate closely with other Legal team members, as appropriate
• Advise (or arrange for the provision of legal advice by other internal or external counsel to) country management on legal and regulatory risks affecting Citi’s businesses and franchise in theCOUNTRY/GEOGRAPHYand help ensure that Citi is appropriately addressing those risks
• Provide legal advice to the Citi Cluster Head and/or Citi Country Officer and country management to drive Citi’s maintaining good relations with local regulators and all other local regulatory bodies that are relevant to Citi business activities
• Proactively monitor and ensure that key legal and regulatory developments that may impact or otherwise be relevant to Citi’s businesses in the country – including those involving other financial institutions – are appropriately monitored and that country management is apprised of significant developments
• Take a lead role in any relevant country-level or cluster-level governance committees (directly or through his/her team), e.g., country coordinating committee, business risk & controls committee; act as lawyer providing support to the country in any matter.
• Manage day-to-day legal activities as a subject matter expert in area of responsibility and provide senior advisory services to businesspartners
• 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 specific relevant industry experience with some experience working in an in-house legal role in financialservices
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, organizational and relationship managementskills
• Excellent command of locallanguages
• Proven ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously in a demanding, fast-pacedenvironment
• Comprehensive knowledge of international, multi-jurisdictional laws and practices while staying abreast of regulatory and legal environment, internal policies and industry trends that impact the business
• Effective communication and negotiation skills and ability to build and maintain trustedrelationships
• Membership of local Bar/ LawyersAssociation

• Juris Doctorate or equivalent lawdegree

This role will be responsible for duly representing Citibanamex's interests before financial authorities.

The role would also serve as a legal liaison with the ABM, so it requires keeping abreast of legislative and regulatory initiatives and also having the historical background, knowledge, contacts and negotiation power to propose changes to initiatives when they have an undue impact on the banking industry.

Requires to have a holistic and cross-cutting understanding of the issues in all areas of the bank, which would allow identifying the impact of regulatory changes and the areas that would be affected, in order to coordinate and communicate within Legal and the Business, obtain feedback and concerns and be able to translate them into requests and articulated arguments to be used before regulators/legislative bodies.

The role would have to be actively involved in the knowledge of the current issues and ongoing work regarding the various regulatory matters at Citibanamex, and would include knowledge of regulatory trends and the "state of mind" of regulators to anticipate the potential consequences and upcoming issues.

This role must work on the strategy of how to present Citibanamex's regulatory matters to financial authorities (who, how, when, why). Requires to identify the related parties that must give feedback to regulatory changes.

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