The Financing and Clearing Platform Sr. Group Manager is responsible for driving revenue generation, ensuring Citi offers state-of-the-art platforms, and maximizing risk management through strategic platform oversight and optimization. This role contributes to the company's financial success by ensuring our platform is at the forefront of innovation, efficiency, and client service.
Responsibilities
Oversight and Ownership of Trading Profit & Loss Drivers: Leads the strategic review and interpretation of trading revenues, financing expenses, and other key business metrics to identify and proactively pursue significant opportunities for revenue enhancement. Drives the assessment of complex trends in profitability and returns, and takes lead in crafting and executing comprehensive growth plans in conjunction with senior sales and trading leadership. Accountable for managing high-level business metrics and optimizing the overall revenue mix across broad segments.
Driving Innovation and Continuous Development of Trading Platform: Initiates, plans, and oversees the prioritization of significant, strategic enhancements to platform capabilities that will open new trading opportunities and drastically improve efficiency across the business. Drives innovations 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. Leads the scoping and definition of complex, cross-functional requirements for functionality enhancements, and directs large teams across technology and operations to deliver these. Serves as a primary liaison and decision-maker for all key stakeholders (legal, compliance, risk, etc.) on solution design, delivery, and strategic impact.
Regulatory and Industry Expertise: Provides thought leadership and expert guidance on complex regulatory and industry changes that critically impact the business and clients, with a deep focus on global regulations affecting trading activities. Proactively shapes business direction and strategy to address material and anticipated developments. Acts as a primary, trusted advisor to key clients and internal stakeholders, interpreting and communicating the strategic implications of regulatory changes.
Risk and Control Oversight: Establishes and champions a culture of vigilance over business processes to ensure uncompromising regulatory perfection and robust operational control across the platform. This includes strategically overseeing operations and technology partners to guarantee the correct execution of critical regulatory functions, and proactively supervises and controls systemic business risk around significant events (expiries, roll periods, settlements etc.) with a focus on enterprise-wide impact. Leads coordination with senior in-business Risk and credit teams on complex client activity, driving policy and strategic decisions.
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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.
Qualifications
15+ years of progressive experience in prime brokerage or futures and clearing, with a proven track record of leading significant, cross-functional initiatives and driving substantial, measurable revenue growth or strategic impact. Including 8-10+ year’s managerial experience.
Strong intellectual curiosity, advanced analytical, and conceptual thinking. Proven ability to leverage analytical tools and complex data to develop strategic insights, forecast market trends, and drive critical business decisions.
Extensive experience in oversight of business Profit & Loss and financial resource metrics, with a deep focus on optimizing trading-related metrics. Comprehensive understanding of capital requirements, regulatory capital, and advanced financial accounting principles.
Established and influential client relationships, with a history of developing and executing solutions for complex client needs. Expert knowledge of client trading strategies, market dynamics, and key areas of focus for high-value clients.
Demonstrated ability to lead and influence across the trading floor, including initiating and driving strategic partnerships with trading desks, Quantitative analysts, and Risk functions to develop and implement product capabilities that deliver significant business growth, optimize risk, and enhance overall platform performance.
Extensive experience in strategically planning, driving, and delivering large-scale, complex programs and initiatives in conjunction with technology and operations, demonstrating strong program management and execution skills.
In-depth knowledge of current and emerging regulatory and industry requirements associated with financing and clearing product sets. Ability to anticipate future regulatory impacts and strategically position the business accordingly.
Proven expertise in comprehensively assessing, mitigating, and controlling operational, market, and credit risk across complex financial products and systems.
Superior communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams, and articulate complex concepts clearly and persuasively in a fast-paced environment.
Education
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
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