Citi Group Services Capital Allocation Management Lead Specialist - SVP 

United States, New York, New York 

574472843

Capital optimization is a critical area for Citigroup and represents a significant challenge facing the financial services industry. As a firm, our ability to effectively lead in this area will be a significant determinant of our future competitiveness. It also helps satisfy a regulatory requirement for enhanced connection between strategic planning and capital planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and roll-out a robust methodology for Services’ capital allocation, though close collaboration with senior leadership

• Establish a common set of metrics and corresponding governance to measure Services’ improvement in returns

• Provide strategic analyses and reporting initiatives to align client-level strategy within Services product lines and ensure eligible assets are being used as efficiently as possible

• Influence capital planning process for Services’ products and communicate insights to senior management

• Coordinate firm-wide returns initiatives for Services, such as Citi’s Low-Returning-Client optimization and Citi’s Relationship Capital Revenue Share (compensating for cross-sell)

• Manage, coach, or mentor junior members of the team
  

Competencies:

• Possess a Client Mindset, i.e familiarity with client perspective as well as banking solutions and products including cash management, trade, payments, securities services, foreign exchange, commodities, fixed income, loans (including syndicated, bilateral) and capital market products

• Awareness of bank capital regulation, bank liquidity regulation, accounting, and valuation techniques

• Ability to connect business strategy with capital usage and understand the complex end-to-end data process for capital calculation in order to make recommendations

• Understand portfolio risk management aggregation principles and techniques to separate and identify drivers affecting Services’ underlying risk appetite and client selection at the global portfolio level

• Attention to detail with proven ability to distill complex ideas into actionable methodologies; comfortable manipulating different data sources to analyze and answer business problems

• Ability to partner well with a range of stakeholders in the firm to drive objectives to delivery, strong interpersonal skills to influence without authority as well as resolve conflict to mitigate roadblocks

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or related fields; Master’s degree preferred

• 8+ years relevant experience in the Financial Services Industry e.g. Treasury, Capital Management & Planning, Quantitative Risk Management, Analytics

• Deep knowledge of financial instruments and products including an awareness of bank capital regulation, bank liquidity regulation, accounting, valuation techniques and risk measurement; good understanding of CCAR stress testing requirements, models, and processes

• Familiarity with Citi Treasury organization and related key functions, as well as Citi’s systems and data a plus

• Proven analytical skills for developing data analysis and quantitative strategies

• Strong problem solving skills with an ability to rapidly assimilate complex information across a variety of financial disciplines

• Excellent communication skills, oral and written, and experience with and confidence in delivering presentations to senior management

• A demonstrated history of delivering on initiatives

• Ability to work under pressure in a highly professional environment

• Passion, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint presentation skills

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