Markets Operations Regulatory Governance Lead

Job Description

Organization Overview:Citi Markets Operations is currently at a pivotal point in its evolution and journey to implement a target operating model. We take pride and are passionate about our People and our culture. We are invested in people and their development. We are transformingand simplifying our operating model creating an exciting environment which encourages diversity of thought and inclusion. We are a dynamic, global, and diverse organization, with a presence in over 60 Countries; covering all post execution Operations teams including product aligned Middle Office groups, Settlements, Margin, Asset Servicing, Listed Derivative & Commodities Operations.We support an extensive range of Capital Markets products and services including Fixed Income (FX, Rates, Credit, Muni, Cash and Derivatives) where Citi is consistently a dominant top 3 player in the market, Equity (Cash, Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Futures,Listed Derivs, FXPB) where Citi has a significant growth program to continue to build out its capabilities and services; and Syndicates where we support both FI and EQ new issues and IPOs. Our Operations groups are core to the success of the Markets business and has significant impact across the lifecycle of a Trade. We partner extensively with a range of internal stakeholders including Front Office Sales and Trading Desks, Compliance, Legal,Finance and HR; alongside having significant interaction with our external client base, playing a key role in the overall client experience. We have a client relationship group dedicated to overseeing the group service performance and strategic partnershipfor our top tier client base, where we play a key role in supporting our global clients to ensure they have a first class experience when doing business with Citi. Our Digitization and Implementation group works alongside our Operations teams delivering automation solutions to solve for operational challenges. We partner with Citis innovation labs to drive optimization and overall play a pivotal role in enabling us totransform to achieve our target operating model. Our Technology partners develop and implement a wide range of applications that support the Operations, Change, Design, and Implementation groups in providing innovative products and solutions. We have re-imagined how to provide technology and service in ourdomain through the alignment of our team vision, culture, and aggressive retirement plan for legacy applications and adoption of a micro-based containerized cloud environment. We encourage our people to create, explore and be adventurous whilst taking measuredrisk, adopting safe practices to protect the firm. Data lineage and optimization is core to how we develop our eco system. We are growing our capabilities using artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine learning. Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace. We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuousevaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm, and our reputation. We work closely with our external global peers, partners, and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry. Team Overview:Markets Operations Regulatory & Legal Entity Control is a newly created centralized team responsible for oversight of regulatory functions. The vision is to implement a best-in-class regulatory control framework focused on risk reduction, process improvement,ensuring consistency and transparency of all regulatory matters impacting Global Markets Operations. Job Purpose:This is a newly created Assistant Vice President role, where the candidate will be instrumental in supporting our Regulatory Governance requirements including issue management, regulatory interactions, and the implementation of adequate governance forums todrive accountability and transparency The role provides an exciting range of opportunities to impact and influence the overall target state design and implementation of our strategic transformation priorities including:

• Implementing best practices and global consistency, simplifying & standardizing processes, and flows
• Opportunity to learn and acquire expertise across a range of products and asset classes
• Empowerment to make decisions and drive a strategy
• Significant interaction with a wide range of stakeholder groups and senior management to help drive the agenda

Key Responsibilities:Regulatory Governance:

• Regulatory issue management and governance by tracking and validating closure of issues across the Organisation
• Suggesting standardization of Regulatory controls across regions and suggesting opportunities for harmonisation across teams
• Support plans, exam calendars and execute vs milestones ensuring we meet deadlines and regulatory commitments
• Identify opportunities to streamline and re-align processes to ensure an optimal organizational structure for best-in-class risk management of regulatory functions

Story Telling:

• Help collect and analyse key risk KPIs/Metrics by Legal entity for senior executive consumption - for each product and function, working in close partnership with the product Leaders
• Analyse risk metrics for trends and lessons learnt in preparation for senior stakeholder meetings
• Assist with preparation for Regulatory meeting interaction

People Agenda:

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and cultivating a robust service and control environment
• Champion diversity and inclusion to create a working environment which allows our People to thrive and excel

Skills & Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
• Previous relevant experience. Preferably in Banking, Operations, Regulatory interactions, or Project Management
• Project Management skills
• Experience delivering strategic change programmed
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels
• Strong risk management and control mindset
• Self-reliant, good problem solver, results oriented
• Strong awareness of both external and internal best practice perspectives, maintaining a balanced and fresh viewpoint.

What we Offer:As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer;

23 days paid annual leave