Citi Group Securities Finance Specialist - AVP 

United Kingdom, England, London 

620936862

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.

Agency Securities Finance (ASF), within Services, partners with institutional investors to enhance their portfolio returns within the global securities finance markets. Citi's key strengths include unsurpassed global branch network, open architecture, robust risk management, real-time controls, program flexibility, product innovation, dynamic reporting, and overall market leadership. ASF is also viewed as a critical source of liquidity in both the equity and fixed income markets as well as a significant liquidity provider in global short term money markets through its cash management operations.

What you’ll do

• Participate in daily trading activities to maximize our clients’ portfolio performance.

• Develop and maintain relationships with borrowers to optimize securities finance opportunities.

• Identify and present trading opportunities to capitalize on special situations and latent holdings.

• Design and develop analytical applications for traders and senior management to visualize action opportunities for lending.

• Build predictive and computational pricing models (C# / Python) for price discovery using numerical, statistical and machine learning techniques.

• Facilitate research & product development for new trading markets & strategies.

• Exceed revenue, profitability, and return on capital targets through optimal execution and broadening client base.

• Interface with global business/trading, operations, technology, and client relationship teams to develop expertise of the Securities Services systems and the client analytics needs to actively contribute to the roadmap and evolution.

What we’ll need from you

• Securities Lending, Prime Finance, or Delta One trading experience required across either equity or fixed income products.

• Technical/programming skills; Expertise with SQL, C#, R or Python and data visualization tools such as Qlikview for full stack data analysis, insight synthesis and presentation.

• Practical understanding of EMEA markets

• Experience with developing, testing, and implementing models with large datasets using tools like SQL, Qlikview, MATLAB is a plus.

• Ability to multitask and work under time pressure.

• Self-motivation and entrepreneurial disposition.

• Ability to build and sustain working relationships across internal teams & external counterparties

• Strong verbal communication and quantitative analytical skills.

• Hands on problem solver, diligent, motivated by challenging projects.

• Collaborate closely with Traders, Structurers, and technology professionals

By joining Citi London, 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

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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