Business Analyst - Risk & Controls (Hybrid)

Overview of Citi:

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 3000 people from over 40 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices.

We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients.

You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast's iconic Titanic Quarter.

Role Overview:

The Business Risk Analyst II is a developing professional role. Applies specialty area knowledge in monitoring, assessing, analyzing and/or evaluating processes and data. Identifies policy gaps and formulates policies. Interprets data and makes recommendations. Researches and interprets factual information.

With a growing presence, our team in Belfast is a key part of the Citi Markets global organisation delivering world-class solutions to meet the needs of our corporate, institutional, government, and individual investor clients in 160 countries and territories. We offer meaningful careers for individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, our diversity is our strength and our people, our greatest asset. Our roles provide challenge and progression, working in an exciting and growing global Financial Markets organisation based in Belfast.

The Markets business continues to enhance our Risk and Control function, specifically delivering the next phases in the development of a robust framework of Front Office booking controls including pre-trade, preventative, intraday, end of day, and detective controls; also reporting of MI to senior business management and oversight committees including Legal Entity boards.

Booking Controls focus on what is booked where, and why - ensuring adherence to business, desk and individual trader mandates, and also ensuring the integrity of legal entities in preventing material booking errors. Booking Controls also focus on how a trade is booked - ensuring Front Office bookings are accurate, timely and complete in order to proceed downstream and onwards to internal/external reporting and stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the Implementation and operating of our new suite of various Front Office Controls to provide effective monitoring and oversight of trading activity (eg. controls over trading books (ie. firm accounts) and compliance with legal entity booking authorities)
• Assist in the timely reporting of risk and subsequent resolution and/or escalation of issues
• Ongoing review of existing controls capabilities with the development and/or enhancement of tactical interim tools and input into the design of strategic monitoring solutions in line with our future vision.
• Developing communication and similar material for presentation to a wide variety of audiences from stakeholders, peers and management. Interacting with Audit and other Control groups to report on our control environment and investigate control failures

Qualifications and skills:

• Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret and analyse large volumes of data and complex information.
• Strong verbal/written communication, including the ability to confidently present to other Citi staff.
• Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities. Monitor deadlines and unexpected requirement changes.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective negotiation skills, a proactive and "no surprises" approach in communicating issues and strength in sustaining independent reviews
• Knowledge of global markets traded products including downstream processing practices and related control principles a positive.
• Good with MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

What we Offer:

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

We'll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions, and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Highlights to our core benefits include:

• Award winning pension
• On-site health services
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Paid parental leave
• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 Days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

Citi Belfast also champions diversity within our workforce, which helps us be well and live well together. We have over 40 different nationalities in our Northern Ireland offices, are a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, and are proud to have 47% of our leadership team made up of individuals who identify as women.

We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Disability, Multicultural, Families Matter, and Women affinity networks that are run by and for, Citi Belfast colleagues; providing them with the support they need in their personal and professional journeys and supplying them with the tools to help educate colleagues on all things related to each network to help us work better together.

Job Family Group:
Risk Management

Job Family:
Business Risk & Control

Time Type:
Full time

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