Securities Finance Specialist - AVP

London, England, United Kingdom

12/17/2024

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 Securities Financing Trading 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.

Team/Role Overview

Agency Securities Finance (ASF), within Services, partners with institutional investors to enhance their portfolio returns within the global securities finance markets. Citi's key strengths include unsurpassed global branch network, open architecture, robust risk management, real-time controls, program flexibility, product innovation, dynamic reporting, and overall market leadership. ASF is also viewed as a critical source of liquidity in both the equity and fixed income markets as well as a significant liquidity provider in global short term money markets through its cash management operations.

Citi provides 24 hour trading coverage and client services through its business locations in Sydney, Hong Kong, London, Dublin, New York and Tampa. Citi’s strategic presence in these locations is designed to align our business with our client base, and provide a platform to target new client mandates. Our traders execute securities lending transactions for leading global institutional investors including Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, ETF Issuers, and Mutual Funds. Leveraging our market-leading combination of securities lending expertise, local branch network, and breadth and depth of supply enables us to create mutually beneficial opportunities for both lenders and borrowers alike.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in daily trading activities to maximize our clients’ portfolio performance.
• Develop and maintain relationships with borrowers to optimize securities finance opportunities.
• Identify and present trading opportunities to capitalize on special situations and latent holdings.
• Design and develop analytical applications for traders and senior management to visualize action opportunities for lending.
• Build predictive and computational pricing models (C# / Python) for price discovery using numerical, statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Facilitate research & product development for new trading markets & strategies.
• Exceed revenue, profitability, and return on capital targets through optimal execution and broadening client base.
• Interface with global business/trading, operations, technology, and client relationship teams to develop expertise of the Securities Services systems and the client analytics needs to actively contribute to the roadmap and evolution.
  
  

What We’ll Need From You

• Securities Lending, Prime Finance, or Delta One trading experience required across either equity or fixed income products.
• Technical/programming skills; Expertise with SQL, C#, R or Python and data visualization tools such as Qlikview for full stack data analysis, insight synthesis and presentation.
• Practical understanding of EMEA markets
• Experience with developing, testing, and implementing models with large datasets using tools like SQL, Qlikview, MATLAB is a plus.
• Ability to multitask and work under time pressure.
• Self-motivation and entrepreneurial disposition.
• Ability to build and sustain working relationships across internal teams & external counterparties
• Strong verbal communication and quantitative analytical skills.
• Hands on problem solver, diligent, motivated by challenging projects.
• Collaborate closely with Traders, Structurers, and technology professionals
  
  

What We Can Offer You

Joining the EMEA Securities Financing trading team can offer you the opportunity to build an in-depth knowledge of Securities Lending, Repo and Cash Re-Investment. Every day there will be new business challenges that will help you develop new skills that can drive your career

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.

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources
  
  

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

“Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

• Honesty, integrity and reputation
• Financial soundness
• Competence and capability
  
  

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.”

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Job Family Group:

Product Management and Development

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Job Family:

Trade Structuring

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Time Type:

Full time

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