Director, Financing and Clearing Platform Principal - Prime Product Development; Margin & Cross-Product Margining Focus

Position: Director, Financing and Clearing Platform Principal - Prime Product Development (Margin & Cross-Product Margining Focus)
The Financing and Clearing Platform Principal is an expert-level professional responsible for independently driving revenue generation, ensuring Citi offers state-of-the-art platforms through direct technical and strategic contributions, and maximizing risk management through expert-level oversight and optimization. This role directly contributes to the company's financial success by ensuring our platform, particularly in Prime Product Development with a strong emphasis on margin and cross-product margining, is at the forefront of innovation, efficiency, and client service, leveraging deep subject matter expertise.

Responsibilities

* Strategic Contribution to Trading Profit & Loss Drivers:
Independently drives the strategic analysis and interpretation of trading revenues, financing expenses, and other key business metrics to identify and proactively pursue significant opportunities for revenue enhancement. This includes a deep understanding of how margin methodologies and cross-product margining efficiencies impact P&L. Expertly assesses complex trends in profitability and returns, and directly contributes to crafting and executing comprehensive growth plans in conjunction with senior sales and trading leadership.

Accountable for providing expert insights and recommendations for managing high-level business metrics and optimizing the overall revenue mix across broad segments.

* Driving Innovation and Direct Development of Trading Platform:
Independently initiates, plans, and directly contributes to the prioritization of significant, strategic enhancements to platform capabilities that will open new trading opportunities and drastically improve efficiency across the business. Drives innovations through direct technical and strategic input to address emerging client demand and significant industry trends, directly enhancing business profitability, and strengthening the overall risk and controls framework and regulatory compliance posture.

A key focus will be on leading the development and enhancement of margin calculation engines, collateral optimization tools, and robust cross-product margining functionalities. Leads the scoping and definition of complex, cross-functional requirements for functionality enhancements, and collaborates closely with large teams across technology and operations to deliver these. Serves as a primary subject matter expert and strategic advisor to all key stakeholders (legal, compliance, risk, etc.)

on solution design, delivery, and strategic impact, particularly regarding margin and collateral management solutions.

* Regulatory and Industry Thought Leadership:
Provides expert thought leadership and guidance on complex regulatory and industry changes that critically impact the business and clients, with a deep focus on global regulations affecting trading activities. This includes expert knowledge of regulations pertaining to margining (e.g., UMR, Dodd-Frank, EMIR) and their impact on client solutions and platform architecture. Proactively shapes business direction and strategy through direct analysis and recommendations to address material and anticipated developments.

Acts as a primary, trusted advisor and subject matter expert to key clients and internal stakeholders, interpreting and communicating the strategic implications of regulatory changes.

* Expert Risk and Control Design and Implementation:
Independently establishes and champions a culture of vigilance over business processes to ensure uncompromising regulatory perfection and robust operational control across the platform. This includes providing expert oversight and guidance to operations and technology partners to guarantee the correct execution of critical regulatory functions, and proactively analyzes and controls systemic business risk around significant events (expiries, roll periods, settlements etc.)

with a focus on enterprise-wide impact. Specifically, this role involves designing and implementing robust risk controls for margin calls, collateral movements, and exposure management within a cross-product margining framework. Leads coordination and provides expert input to senior in-business Risk and…