Capital & Liquidity, Program Execution & Transformation, SVP

Team / Role Overview

Markets provide world‑class solutions that are as diverse as the needs of the corporates, institutions, governments, and individual investors we serve in 160 countries and territories. The breadth, depth, and strength of our underwriting, sales and trading, and distribution capabilities span asset classes and currencies, sectors and industries, covering a vast array of products.

The role will be part of a Markets Program Execution Team responsible for ensuring that best practices and Citi standards are utilized to ensure successful delivery in a complex, global program.

• Ensure timely execution of data centric deliverables.
• Own the design and delivery of Services required to support the Capital and Liquidity teams.
• Use independent critical thinking and data analysis to decompose complex problems into simple deliverables.
• Lead working groups with Business, Quant, Finance and Technology stakeholders to identify critical data elements and design a target operating model / architecture.
• Translate requirements and target architectures into delivery milestones and agree deliverables and project plans with stakeholders.
• Maintain a hands‑on approach to project delivery, working on a daily basis with technical teams to ensure requirements are understood, correctly implemented and delivered to plan.
• Manage internal and external dependencies across initiatives, including working closely with Business, Quant, Finance and Technology teams.
• Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalates risks and issues in a timely and well articulated manner to the projects by engaging relevant stakeholders.
• Produce accurate and insightful project update materials and artifacts, tailoring to various forums and committees.
• Build strong relationships, adopting a joined up approach, to support the execution of programs.
• Lead, supervise, coach and develop junior Markets Program Execution and Transformation team members and matrix management of teams across businesses/functions.

• Relevant experience in Front Office/COO Markets, preferably 7+ years.
• Knowledge of Front Office market structure and trade flow across a range of markets trading products.
• Experience working with large datasets / relational databases and using sql to analyze and manipulate data.
• Demonstrable hands‑on experience of designing effective target operating models and IT architectures to solve complex business problems.
• Experience in managing and executing on complex data programs including the sourcing, transformation, enrichment and governance of trade data in a business role.
• Knowledge and experience of structured project management techniques in a front office environment.
• Knowledge of Operational Risk methodologies/frameworks and demonstrable appreciation of the need for and impact of controls, thresholds and Data Quality rules plus fundamental data terminology.
• Demonstrable experience in trade processing front-to-back, risk and control, markets, operations, and support & control areas (e.g. Finance, Risk) within a large bank/dealer.
• Experience running complex, high profile, high impact projects / programs as a consultant or internal change group within a Front Office/COO environment.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to work unsupported to develop ideas and formalize delivery plans.
• Strong project and program management skills.
• Expertise in designing and implementing structured business/operational processes and business requirements documentation.

• College/university degree education or equivalent experience.
• Appropriate industry knowledge & track record of exceptional delivery.

Citi’s Capital Markets Transformation team is growing, and we’re looking for talented individuals to help lead the change, with big data and data solutions at the core of that transformation. Our teams are revolutionizing Businesses across the globe and we’re changing the way people think about utilizing data. Join an environment with a laser focus on delivery and progress, and take your career to the next level through the power of Citi’s…