Career Opportunities at Citi

Responsibilities

The Project Manager is a professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas. Significant impact on the area through medium to complex deliverables. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Be the project manager responsible for the successful delivery of projects across Sub-Saharan Africa from initiation to completion.
• Have a thorough understanding of project and programme governance and processes.
• Develops detailed project plans, schedules, project cost and timelines estimates, and status reports.
• Identify project risks and issues and create associated mitigation plans
• Interfaces with senior project staff and senior management teams regarding status of projects.
• Recommends and oversees process improvements.
• Has considerable business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry standards.
• Possesses a comprehensive understanding of how own area and others (i.e., architecture or infrastructure) collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives and project goals.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or junior project managers.
• Persuades and influences others through comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Skills:

• Is a self-starter, and takes initiative.
• Is well articulated, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Has attention to detail
• Has the ability to handle pressure, and manage strict deadlines and expectations
• Strong project management discipline and exposure to agile and waterfall methodologies

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years’ experience in a related technology role and subject matter expert in overall field

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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The Analyst is an intermediate-level position responsible for assisting clients in raising funds in the capital markets, as well as in providing strategic advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and other types of financial transactions in coordination with the Institutional Banking team. The Analyst also serves as an intermediary in trading for clients. The overall objective of this role is to act as a strategic advisor to our clients by formulating investment strategies and raising capital for clients.

Responsibilities:

• Participate client transactions, projects or assignments as the junior member of a professional team
• Partner with senior Corporate Banking Officers and professionals
• Organize and analyze sophisticated financial data used in client proposals and strategic plans
• Prepare written recommendations and create statistical exhibits
• Conduct economic/financial research
• Provide evaluations of a company’s financial performance compared to overall industry and market trends or data
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 0-2 years of relevant experience
• Theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge is required, including comprehensive knowledge of the Corporate Banking business, its related products and pertinent regulations affecting it
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated planning and organizational skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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The Financial and Regulatory Controller- South Africa role is responsible for managing the financial and regulatory reporting and the related controls and responsibilities include oversight and providing support to the relevant finance leads and team members.

The purpose of the role is to manage and oversee the process regarding all reporting elements across finance and ensuring that strong controls are applied and implemented during the reporting processes, opportunities for process improvements are identified and implemented along the way.

The Country Controller is also responsible for providing support to the CFO to protect the Franchise and to ensure Citi is appropriately managing financial and regulatory reporting risks and ensure appropriate controls and processes are in place.

The role is based within the South African Finance team and reports directly to the CFO. The Role will manage the Controller related responsibilities and cover the 2 legal entities in the South African Franchise i.e. the banking entity (CBNA SA) and the broker-dealer entity (CGM SA).

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for financial and regulatory reporting and the related controls.
• Contributes to the integrity and control of company’s financial books and records as well as the process by which these records are generated
• Participates in efforts to embed consistent controls and unify various controller functions performed that includes; assessing & standardizing financial reporting; setting controls around corporate/regulatory reporting; recommend balance sheet integrity.
• Ensures a strong control framework and a robust MCA process aligned to Controller Regional guidelines.
• Contribute to continuous strengthening of the independent controls and the control environment throughout the country to support the business in efforts to grow responsibly
• Drive the proactive tracking of and remediation corrective actions for all control related issues identified
• Identifying areas where process improvements can be made to achieve efficiencies and a strong control environment;
• Support the improvement of data quality as it pertains to financial and regulatory reporting
• Support the CFO with ad-hoc requests
• Provide support (committee packs, analysis of information for business purposes) for various management committee meetings and external meetings, including ability to assist with chairing meetings where required
• Presenting at committees such as Regulatory Reporting Governance committee amongst others where required
• Produce metrics to senior management highlighting key regulatory issues and remediation status and maintain and enhance related operational and analytical procedures
• Responsible for the external statutory audit process and manage audit engagements
• Ensure that all Internal audits are proactively managed, (preparation, planning, fieldwork and actions)
• Ensures that the local legal entities are in full compliance with the Legal Entity Standards Policy
• Manages a team of professionals, which includes performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.
• Proactively manage the Citi Shared Services partners, working closely with Budapest Regulatory teams (Reg CSC) and the Finance and Risk Operations (FRO) to ensure timely accurate reporting process
• Participate in Regional/Cluster Finance initiatives and rollouts
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy.
• Applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these
• Working closely with business partners and risk functions and escalate control issues identified appropriately

Qualifications:

• Chartered accountant or equivalent
• Relevant Accounting/Finance or risk related qualifications
• Risk and/or Actuarial related qualifications will also be considered

Experience:

• Strong Experience in Banking or Auditing
• Strong experience in Financial and Regulatory Reporting Environment
• At least 5 years of hands on managerial experience
• Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment experience an advantage
• Financial accounting with IFRS experience
• Prior knowledge of Finance and Regulatory reporting platforms will be an added advantage

Competencies

• A highly motivated self-starter with an assertive character, a hands-on approach and who aspires to being a key contributor in a dynamic team environment of professionals.
• Strong interpersonal and Team management skills are essential.
• A pro-active decision maker who has the ability to champion Finance initiatives
• Displays clear accountability and ownership of issues and who has strong leadership capabilities.
• Ability to multi task and to be able to prioritize in a deadline driven environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and able to communicate his/her position clearly and defend it at various reporting levels.
• Planning and time management
• Strong presentation skills

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Responsibilities

The Recruiter Intermediate is an intermediate position responsible for the end-to-end strategy, execution and delivery of the recruitment process in coordination with the Human Resources team. The overall objective of this role is to participate in various recruitment initiatives in support of the overall business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Consult with clients to develop appropriate sourcing strategy, such as internal direct sourcing, networking, and social recruitment
• Source applicants, screen resumes, interview and assess candidates and provide list of qualified candidates to hiring managers
• Partner with respective Human Resource Advisors, compensation leads, and hiring managers to prepare reasonable and fair offers for internal and external talent
• Research markets and peer organizations to identify candidates, and provide positive candidate experience for internal and external candidates
• Participate in diversity recruiting events and activities
• Provide stakeholders with market data and activity information to assess talent pipeline for current and future needs as well as facilitate feedback conversations with key stakeholders and candidates
• Ensure all hiring policies and procedures are adhered to and that “best practice” recruitment guidelines are administered throughout the recruitment process
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in financial services industry preferred
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience