Investment Banking Senior Negotiator - Belfast, United Kingdom - Citi

Citi

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Belfast, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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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's iconic Titanic Quarter.

Role Overview

Citi's Legal Department in Belfast is a team of approximately 190 staff, covering a range of products and services across Citi's Europe, Middle East and Africa region (known as "EMEA").

The department is critical to Citi's global operations and works closely with the London Legal Department to provide legal coverage for a wide range of financial products and services, advising to many business areas with a particular focus on Citi's Institutional Client Group.

This role is in Citi's EMEA Investment Banking Legal team in Belfast which supports both the Equity Capital Markets ("ECM") and Mergers & Acquisitions ("M&A") Legal teams.

Both the ECM and M&A Legal teams are part of the broader ICG Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory ("BCMA") Legal team.

BCMA Legal is a global team providing legal coverage and support for Citi's Equity Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Debt Capital Markets and Issuer Services businesses.

Citi's ECM and M&A businesses are both market-leading in the EMEA region.

Key Responsibilities

Drafting, negotiating and managing legal documentation, in particular, confidentiality agreements, backtoback agreements to confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, requests for proposal, disclaimers, nonreliance and hold harmless letters.
Identifying franchise risk and policy/business waivers that may be required.
Identifying legal risks and opportunities presented by transactions and ensuring that Citi's policy, legal and regulatory standards are maintained.
Liaising with Citi colleagues in other legal teams including litigation, data protection, regulation and country counsel, as well as other groups within Citi, such as Risk, Tax, Compliance, Business Selection and Control Group.
Provide support to other team members to ensure that BAU activities carried out by the team are completed accurately and to the highest standard.

Knowledge/Experience

Experience in financial services.
Ability to multitask and take personal responsibility/ownership of a number of projects concurrently.
Exposure to working in a fast paced and time sensitive environment.
Previous experience in a senior support capacity would be advantageous.
Previous experience in a legal advisory environment would be advantageous.

Skills

Good interpersonal communication and influencing skills.
Ability to assimilate complex issues and communicate concisely and clearly.
Excellent technical and analytical skills.
Strong business judgment and commercial awareness.
Ability to project manage and organise own workload effectively meeting strict deadlines.
Ability to provide continuous feedback and to follow up regularly on all outstanding issues without prompting.
Ability to work in a professional but demanding environment.

Qualifications

Bachelors/University degree in law or business; or

Development value

Have exposure to a wide variety of innovative and challenging legal and commercial issues and will enjoy working in a dynamic, proactive and collegiate legal team;
Learn to manage legal risk in a large variety of scenarios typical of an international investment bank;
Come into contact with internal processes and structures across the bank as well as dealing with other groups within the broader legal team;
Learn to escalate material issues to senior team members and then on to senior management or other stakeholders within the bank; and
Have the opportunity to attend training courses covering a broad range of activities related to legal transaction management as well as having acce