Citi Group Program Management Senior Lead SVP 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

132880114

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.

Markets Operations at Citi has embarked on a significant, multi-year transformation covering all aspects of designing and delivering a future state target operating model: risk and controls, regulatory compliance, process re-engineering, automation, people and culture, data transformation, technology investment and client service. This is a large and complex undertaking.

What you’ll do

• Manages assigned workstreams across large regulatory reform programmes, tracking delivery to plan, resolving issues, and ensuring appropriate governance artefacts are in place.
• Works with Operations, Legal, Compliance and Technology stakeholders to define and agree regulatory interpretations, scoping impacts to processes and controls.
• Supports the Programme Manager in driving business case preparation, cost-benefit analysis, and KPI alignment to regulatory obligations.
• Owns the documentation of detailed business and functional requirements and ensures traceability through testing and implementation.
• Supports test planning, execution coordination, and business readiness for go-live.
• Can query data and determine the benefits associated with regulatory delivery
• Leads identification and resolution of issues across Markets Operations, escalating risks with mitigation strategies when required.
• Ensures adherence to Citi PM standards, governance routines, and documentation expectations across regulatory programmes.
• Proactively manages communication of risks, status, and issues to Programme Manager and senior stakeholders.
• Collaborates across multiple delivery teams and functional areas to align dependencies and track milestones.

What we’ll need from you

• Significant experience in financial services, specifically in programme delivery or regulatory transformation.
• Proven track record delivering major regulatory change across the European Capital Markets landscape — including experience with CSDR, EMIR Refit, SFTR, MiFID II, or Basel III/CRR II.
• Deep understanding of post-trade operations: trade capture, margining, settlement, reporting, and related control environments.
• Strong experience working with Markets Operations stakeholders and Technology partners across regions.
• Excellent documentation, process mapping, issue tracking and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with global and European market infrastructure (CCPs, CSDs, custodians) and interaction with industry groups (e.g. ISDA, ICMA, AFME) is a plus
• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
• CAPM, PMP, PgMP, CBAP or MBA are a plus.

By joining Citi Belfast, 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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