Global Markets Price Risk

**Responsibilities**:

- Assist the Business in key policy adherence and monitoring.
- Keep Management aware of the risk and control environment of the Business through continuous and open communication, buy preparing and host Business Risk Committee meetings with Senior Management to present and follow-up on issues, concerns and corrective action plans.
- Update and maintain a robust Manager’s Control Assessment (MCA) in compliance with the Citi Operational Risk Policy.
- Ensure adherence to the Citi Operational Risk Policy in regard to operational loss approvals and reporting.
- Ensure that the Business has a sound control environment from an information security perspective, including adherence to relevant policies where appropriate.
- Responsible for the coordination of key projects, including ensuring that annual Know Your Client (KYC) periodic reviews are timely executed.
- Serve as main point of contact for audit groups and ensure that all audit requests are timely and appropriately provided.

**Qualifications**:

- 10+ years experience in Operational Risk Management, Audit, Compliance or other control function
- Familiarity with 3rd party risk models.
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- SQL, Perl or Python, Matlab or R, Excel VBA. Database administrator experience is a plus.

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

This role will have responsibility for monitoring, investigating and challenging valuation controls as well as producing monthly governance and project management materials. The scope of the role covers Markets globally and requires collaboration with colleagues across all regions focused on CVA and XVA.

Successful execution will require partnership with traders, quants, technology, market risk and product control, whilst also leading engagements with internal audit (IA) and regulators.

**Background**
This role is also a key member of a broader 1LoD Risk & Control function directly supporting Markets as one of the major businesses within the Institutional Clients Group. The Global Markets Price Risk & Control team is mandated to establish and maintain a robust 1LoD designed to minimize risk within the business including leading critical control remediation projects to mitigate risk in Trading, Financial Crimes and Conduct while ensuring strong governance to measure, monitor, manage and escalate key risks.

Successful execution will require partnership with traders, quants, technology, market risk and product control, whilst also leading engagements with internal audit (IA) and regulators.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Design and implement Front Office controls which effectively mitigate the risk of misvaluation of financial instruments.
- Evaluate metrics and reports to assess the consistency of valuations with the firm’s standards, identify necessary actions and facilitate resolution of identified inconsistencies.
- Design and implement governance materials for senior monthly forums which are accountable for consistent Front Office valuations.
- Manage project deliverables across multiple businesses, regions and stakeholders.
- Generate ideas for efficient target state controls which are aligned with long term plans.
- Develop enhanced standards and policies in relation to Front Office controls over pricing risk.
- Drive standardized and consistent mechanisms to evidence controls and supervision of pricing risk.
- Engage Audit and other Control groups to drive forward control enhancement initiatives and resolve control failures.
- Define operating control standards across Markets and embed within the Manager Control Assessment (MCA) framework.
- Assess Valuation Risk controls and ensure businesses operates within risk appetite.

**Qualifications and Competencies**
- Strong technical understanding of derivative valuations across multiple asset classes including associated portfolio level adjustments (eg. CVA)
- Robust understanding of typical data structures for market data utilized by derivative models.
- Experience with designing and monitoring key controls for the valuation of derivatives in a trading environment
- 7+ years’ experience in Risk Management, Product Control, Consulting, Trading or other related roles in the financial industry
- Experience with generating creative solutions, differentiating and prioritizing realistic enhancements and driving change-related projects.
- Strong communication skills with an ability to influence senior stakeholders and to adjust communication style for the target audience.
- Strong financial, analytical and project management skills
- Effective negotiation skills, a proactive and “no surprises” approach in communicating issues.
- Self-motivated and detail oriented.
- **Job Family Group**:
Risk Management
- **Job Family**:
Business Risk & Control
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative act