In-Business Risk Manager, Senior Vice President

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

Global Markets In-Business Risk (IBR) is a Front Office 1st Line of Defense team responsible for market risk across all asset classes in Citi’s Global Markets division.

The team develops a holistic understanding of market risk across the aggregated trading portfolio, and the associated capital impact, in order to manage risk within appetites and optimize the return on capital.

Global Markets IBR covers all trading businesses globally such as Rates and Currencies, Spread Products, Commodities and Equities.

The focus of this role is the coverage of cross-asset portfolio risks arising from the Markets business/trading activities.

What you will do:

• Proactively identify and quantify key market risks within Markets’ trading inventory via data analysis, considering the market environment and emerging themes. Communicate and discuss these with head of IBR and trading businesses. Help design appropriate hedging strategy as needed.
• Closely track performances of products across Global Markets, understand the drivers of market movements across different asset classes, analyze notable trends to form relative value and forward-looking view of material, concentration, and emerging risks.
• Understand the firm’s risk appetite, limits, and our capital framework to allow effective optimization and allocation of risk.
• Build front to back holistic understanding of risk and its implications on all attributions of capital, such as Stress losses, Value-at-Risk, FRTB, etc at both Markets level and certain material legal entities where Markets operates predominantly.
• Support head of IBR and trading businesses to analyze their return on capital and risk appetite ratio.
• Work closely with independent risk teams (2nd Line of Defense) in sizing appropriate risk limits for Markets business and some material legal entities, as appropriate, and monitor and manage risk limit utilizations across businesses and some material legal entities
• Assist with occasional regulatory questions and requirements, including non-US regulatory requests related to FRTB readiness and Climate Risk deliverables.
• Work with Technology / MQA to develop and improve comprehensive risk monitoring framework to manage overall portfolio risk and capital utilization in a timely manner.

What we need from you:

• Experience in a related role, such as Trading/Structuring/Research or quantitative analysis, with a focus on managing market risk. Risk taking experience is a benefit.
• Deep subject matter expertise on at least one asset class is beneficial, as is the ability to draw parallels between emerging dynamics and risks in different asset classes
• Strong interpersonal skills - to build relationships with trading desks and second line risk
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Exceptional analytical competency, attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• The candidate must be highly self-motivated, with a desire to learn and continuously improve their own understanding and their contribution to the team’s goals
• An interest in geopolitics, financial markets and trading
• Strong in MS Excel. Programing skills such as SQL and python are preferred
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree. Preferably in Economics, Engineering, Statistics, or Finance.

------------------------------------------------------

Job Family Group: Institutional Trading

------------------------------------------------------

Job Family:Trade Support

------------------------------------------------------

Time Type:Full time

------------------------------------------------------

Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.

------------------------------------------------------

Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

------------------------------------------------------

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.