Global Head of Fund Accounting - London, United Kingdom - Citi

Citi

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions.

Citi provides 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.

Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi's Mission and Value Proposition explains what we do and Citi Leadership Standards explain how we do it.

Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

We strive to earn and maintain both our clients' and the public's trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Our Leadership Standards is a common set of skills and expected behaviors that illustrate how our employees should work every day to be successful, strengthening our ability to execute against our strategic priorities.

Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at Citi. We serve clients from every walk of life, every background and every origin. Our goal is to have our workforce reflect this same diversity at all levels.

Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all.

We foster a culture of meritocracy and diversity; we value and expect respect for others; opportunities to develop are widely available to all.

51% of our employees are women and 24% of our Director's and Managing Directors are women.

About Citi Securities Services

As part of Citi's Services business, Securities Services is a global business that provides Custody, Fund Services, Issuer Services and Execution Services to global asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies, banks and financial intermediaries.

Securities Services operates the largest custody network globally with a presence in 60+ countries.

Position summary
Do you excel at seeing and driving to the future state the Fund Services Industry despite knowing in detail the complexity of the current state in Accounting and Administration? Are you a commercial, tech and operational change savvy business leader who doesn't settle for good enough and pushes all to be the best?

The Product Manager is a senior management level position responsible for managing a broad range of Product Management employees, setting strategy and providing direction, leadership and budgetary management Additionally, this role will be responsible for the development of product plans, strategies, and tactics while coordinating product lines through product life-cycles in coordination with the broader Product Management team.

Timely execution, seamless business and client change are extremely important to ensure Fund Services continues its growth path and expands its relationships with strategic clients.

Reporting to the Global Head of Fund Services, the Global Head of Fund Accounting & Administration will lead strategic transformational change at the core of our business driving growth though innovation, digitisation, operating and financial performance.

As part of the leadership team, this role will leverage broad fund accounting & Admin domain knowledge, deep experience influencing product, operations, design and IT architecture change, as they partner and influence global functions ensuring a 24h / 6d model though a single client experience across the globe.

Responsibilities

Commercially and strategically minded with responsibility to develop and execute the accounting and admin strategy that aligns to the wider Securities Services Strategy.
Ownership of the Global P&L for the function driving QoQ improvements via Monthly Business Review (MBR) deliverables
Own the ABOR product globally and partner with the IBOR and Transfer Agency teams
Own pricing decisions for current and new accounting business and represent the funds business at local / regional and global deal review meetings
Be the difference between the think and the execution.
Work closely with Product owners to develop and drive product roadmaps that are inclusive of business operations and technology future change needs that have a keen eye on client experience, financial performance, control, and scalability.
Change the operating model of existing clients to drive efficiency, scale, lower risk and performance.
Collaborate with Business, Technology, Operations, Client Services, Finance and Risk to deliver upon future state front to back business architectures enabling optimized solutions with low process friction.
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