Fx Operations Analyst - Belfast, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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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 financialproducts 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-edgeideas, 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 servicesto 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.


Organization Overview:


Citi Markets Operations is currently at a pivotal point in its evolution and journey to implement a target operating model.

We take pride and are passionate about our People and our culture. We are invested in our People and their development. We are transformingand simplifying our operating model, creating an exciting environment which encourages diversity of thought and inclusion.

We are a dynamic, global, and diverse Organisation, with a presence in over 60 Countries; covering all front post execution Operations teams including product aligned Middle Office groups, Settlements, Margin, Asset Servicing, Listed Derivative & CommoditiesOperations.

We support an extensive range of Capital Markets products and services including Fixed Income (FX, Rates, Credit, Muni, Cash and Derivatives) where Citi is consistently a dominant top 3 player in the market, Equity (Cash, Derivatives, Prime Brokerage,Futures, Listed Derivs, FXPB) where Citi has a significant growth program to continue to build out its capabilities and services; and Syndicates where we support both FI and EQ new issues and IPOs.

Our Operations groups are core to the success of the Markets business and have significant impact across the lifecycle of a trade.

We partner extensively with a range of internal stakeholders including Front Office Sales and Trading Desks, Compliance, Legal,Finance and HR; alongside having significant interaction with our external client base, playing a key role in the overall client experience.

We have a Client relationship group, dedicated to overseeing the Organizational service performance and strategic partnershipfor our top tier client base, where we play a key role in supporting our global clients to ensure they have a first-class experience when doing business with Citi.

Our Business Intelligence and Process Re-engineering group works alongside our Operations teams delivering automation solutions to solve for operational challenges.

We partner with Citi's innovation labs to drive optimization, and overall play a pivotal rolein enabling us to transform to achieve our target operating model.

Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace.

We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuousevaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm, and our reputation.

We work closely with our external global peers, partners, and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry.


Role / Position Overview

The role entails ensuring that all trades for Foreign Exchange product are settled in a timely manner and the resolution of queries covering all areas of pre-settlement matching, settlement processing and post-settlement investigations.

This role ensures that the operational risk of the business is appropriately managed, issues are escalated, and problems dealt with accurately and on a timely basis.


Key Responsibilities:


  • Responsible for processing of large volumes of high value transactions
  • Ensuring established controls and procedures are adhered to.
  • Capable of making appropriate decisions in line with critical deadlines, high value of trades and sensitive clients.
  • Manage all exceptions to KRI's
  • Ensuring that all deadlines are met, all unmatched and failed trades are investigated and satisfactorily resolved
  • Continuous liaison with Internal and External clients and counterparties, including escalation, resolution and appropriate follow up.
  • Maintain a high level of client service and support, to external clients/counterparties, other market participants and key Citi staff.
  • Build strong relationships with other areas, including regular communication with the front office/trading floor.
  • Ensures the quality and service of own work
  • Applies working knowledge of technical and professional principles and concepts and indepth knowledge of team objectives.
  • Applies knowledge to provide valueadded perspectives or advice. Interprets data and contributes to recommendations for process improvement.

Development Value:

  • Develop an in depth knowledge of the products, markets and processes being supportedExposure to
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