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Citi
is hiring
Senior Business Analyst
About Our Company
Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. We have 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the world's toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. We are Citi, the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities.
Job Description & Responsibilities
The Global E-Trading Business Analyst will report into the Global Rates E-Trading Business Manager. Given the increasing industry and regulatory focus around control related tasks, this role is critical to maintaining a robust control environment within the Rates Algorithmic Trading Business. The role is also key to enabling business growth through maintaining a sound control environment, facilitating new business initiatives, product expansion and driving technology change within the business and will cover a range of identified opportunities in Trading and Technology. The Business Analyst should be able to work well in a team environment and should be able to function without close supervision and with good project management skills.
Responsibilities:
Business Administration:
- Liaison with support functions building relationships with market risk, risk and controls, compliance and technology to assist in delivering on business strategy
- Create and update effective metrics to desk heads and seniors
- Involvement in maintaining the control framework for the wider business including Managers Control Assessment (MCA), operational loss processes, investigation and developing and driving corrective actions.
- Other ad hoc administration tasks that support the activities of the business including PowerPoint presentations and excel analysis.
Control Focus:
- Seek out and ensure corrective actions are implemented for control related issues across the spectrum of control functions with a goal of driving a robust, efficient and scalable business model across all traded asset classes.
Business Development & Project Management:
- Participate in business-driven projects across functions, driving implementation working closely with relevant seniors.
- Provide input into and drive technology change, process and control framework enhancements
Business Skills:
- Demonstrate a knowledge of financial markets, focused on Interest Rate products
- Relay business knowledge, product knowledge, and requirements to business and internal support functions where required
- Co-ordinate and participate actively in all relevant business initiatives as required.
Communication Skills:
- Foster excellent relationships between the businesses and various support functions
- Communicate (written and oral) information within and between the businesses and support functions
- Communicate effectively within the business management teams locally and globally
Technical Capabilities:
- High level of computer literacy especially in the Microsoft Office product suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
Development Value:
- Develop a detailed understanding of the Rates business, its products and processes and how it operates within a large organization
- Build effective prioritization skills as the job entails dealing with multiple conflicting priorities in a time-pressured environment.
- The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work and build relationships with a broad range of people inside the organization, including Business/Desk Heads and Global Functions Business Partners
Requirements
Knowledge/Experience:
- Business management, finance, operations, audit or related experience within global financial services firms
- Exposure to Interest Rate products would be an advantage
- Strong Project Management and execution skills
- Familiar at working with and manipulating large data sets – QlikView, Powerbase, Python or SQL skills an advantage but not required.
Qualifications:
- 2-5 years experience
- Subject matter expert in derivatives products
- Experience of working on projects and delivering to assigned deadlines.
- Effective analytical skills, particularly around requirements gathering, requirements documentation, and data interrogation
- Excellent communication skills
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
What we offer
Salary:
$69,050.00 - $96,350.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.