Job Description

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\xe2\x80\x99s iconic Titanic Quarter.

The role:

The Business Analysis Group Manager is a senior management-level position responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
This role offers the opportunity to partner with key stakeholders across Markets Treasury Business, Corporate treasury, product control and senior technology partners to define our technology platforms. As the business uses all asset classes including FX, Rates, FI, Money Market & Derivatives, the role has high visibility and individual will be considered a critical partner across the various technology and business stakeholder teams.

Responsibilities:

Manage multiple business analysts supporting multiple projects or over a business analysis functional area (depending on size of business) with responsibilities including work allocation, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, staffing and other duties as assigned

Provide technical leadership and expertise to ensure the efficient design, development and implementation and to ensure essential procedures are followed

Resolve issues that have impact beyond own area and apply in-depth understanding of business analysis concepts and procedures and basic knowledge of other areas

Work as a team to achieve objectives and influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, communicating with external parties as needed

Work with stakeholders across Business lines, for transformation projects to understand their business and process

Work with Senior stakeholders in Trading Business, Operations, Product Control and Finance, Technology units and PMO to run meetings, coordinate and gather business requirements

Interact with various cross functional teams like Data, Risk and Finance Platforms etc. to develop plans around strategic flow/store of Risk data.

Plan, estimate, and manage risks and issues, project reporting, managing stakeholders, and building strong relationships with the business

Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated, unique and dynamic situations, drawing on diverse range of internal and external sources

Understand current business process and provide functional design inputs for the proposed technology solution

Create high quality documentation for Business and Functional Requirements

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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Analyze huge data sets, create flow diagrams, prepare high level summaries and workflows

Work in close co-ordination with the development leads on enhancements and defects, and assist with troubleshooting / resolution of application defects

Engage successfully with software developers and testers to ensure quality delivery, on time

Identify opportunities for cost saves and optimizations, in terms of legacy system retirement, eliminating EUC and reducing MTPs

Vendor Management and assistance in budget planning / contracting

Qualifications:

Proven years relevant experience as Business Analyst with any Investment/ Global Bank in the areas of Trade Processing & Risk Management

Proven overall experience working in a Banking/Financial services industry

Should understand money market and fixed income trade processing cycle globally viz., deal capture, deal execution, risk management, PnL calculation, liquidity impacts etc.

Should have very good knowledge on FI,MM, FX products and Intra-day liquidity management

Familiarity with SDLC and Agile development methodologies

Demonstrated leadership in previous role to build team and executed projects for successful business delivery

Essential Skills/Competencies:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to transform business requirements into precise functional/technical specifications

Strong analysis skills; ability to create business analysis from scratch, ability to troubleshoot data quality issues

Ability to work as part of various teams and under pressure

Planning and Organizing \xe2\x80\x93 Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives

Accountability \xe2\x80\x93self start on goals and achieve targets

Education:

Strong academic record ideally with a Bachelors or Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline from a top tier University. Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree (MBA) with specialization in Finance from top tier University will be an added advantage.

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\xe2\x80\x99ll 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.

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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: Technology



Job Family: Business Analysis / Client Services



Time Type: Full time



Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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