Vice President, Capital Allocation & Management, Lead Analyst - Services

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to Citi’s Balance Sheet and Capital Management team.

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.

Citi Services is one of Citi’s five interconnected businesses and at the heart of Citi’s global network. Citi Services includes Treasury & Trade Solutions (TTS) and Investor/Issuer Services. TTS provides an integrated suite of Liquidity, Payments and Trade/Working Capital solutions to multinational corporations, financial institutions, public sector organisations and increasingly mid-sized corporate clients. Investor/Issuer Services provides global institutional clients a wide range of solutions, including custody, fund services, execution services, and issuer services.

Capital optimisation is a critical area for Citigroup and represents a significant challenge facing the financial services industry. As a firm, our ability to effectively lead in this area will be a significant determinant of our future competitiveness. It also helps satisfy a regulatory requirement for enhanced connection between strategic planning and capital planning.

Services Capital Allocation and Management, Lead Analyst, plays a critical role in Services’ capital and balance sheet strategy by directing capital strategy at the client level in order to align balance sheet usage with client priority. The successful candidate will execute current client‑oriented capital programs and accountability framework within Trade and Working Capital Solutions and expand them to the Services‑wide level to deploy capital across highest returning clients and products.

• Execute and maintain client-level capital‑investment for monthly and quarterly processes, through close collaboration with Trade & Working Capital Solutions Sales and Cluster managers.
• Analyse client pricing and remediate modelling assumptions of transaction returns to troubleshoot deal‑level drivers of client returns profile. Identify inconsistencies in client financials/TCE, Services RWA, and other Services capital metrics (GSST/CECL); upscale systemic issues and create Data Concerns, identify root causes, and influence automated solutions.
• Maintain portfolio‑level metrics for capital‑investment programs and prepare monthly/quarterly updates.
• Expand client‑level applications of capital‑investment to the Services level, in conjunction with Banking and Markets partners, including Trade and Working Capital Solution’s successful Asset Optimization Program.

• Required to dive into details, to execute and enhance robust capital allocation methodology.
• Wholesale Credit Orientation:
  Experience working with Risk / Treasury / Finance and Technology / Operations partners; exposure to RWA, TCE, capital, liquidity measures, and modelling concepts (PD, LGD).
• Possess a Client Mindset, i.e. familiarity with client perspective as well as banking solutions and products including cash management, trade, payments, securities services, foreign exchange, commodities, fixed income, loans (including syndicated, bilateral) and capital market product.
• Understand Portfolio Management, i.e. how Services’ exposure to client and counter parties combines into the global portfolio and fits into the portfolio’s lifecycle.
• Extremely high attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Comfortable manipulating different data sources to analyse and answer business problems.
• Innovation mind set and intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to partner well with a range of stakeholders in the firm to drive objectives to delivery, strong interpersonal skills to identify and resolve conflict to mitigate roadblocks.
• Significant relevant experience in the Financial Services Industry.
• Understanding of Financial instruments and products as well as Risk and Corporate Banking functions.
• Familiarity with regulatory capital rules; internal allocation methodologies is a plus…