Director, Senior Legal Regulatory Counsel

We live in an increasingly complex world. Companies these days are either born global or are going global at record speed. Business and geopolitics are forging an entirely new dynamic and consumers now expect financial services to be a seamless part of their digital lives. **Citi** is a bank that’s uniquely positioned for this moment. Through our vast global network and our on-the-ground expertise, we can connect the dots, anticipate change and empathize the needs of our clients and customers in ways that other banks simply cannot.

**Shape your Career with Citi**

Citi’s **Legal** team supports our business objectives while also identifying, managing and mitigating legal, regulatory and reputational risks. As a member of our Legal team, you would provide the highest quality legal advice and counsel to stakeholders across our firm.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as **Director, Senior Legal Regulatory Counsel - Hybrid** (Internal Job Title: Legal Sr Group Manager - Regulatory
- **C15**) based in Singapore. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future. For instance:

- Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.
- We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.
- Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.

Examples include advising on LIBOR and benchmark reform; regulatory considerations for Citi’s digital asset initiatives; uncleared margin rules, OTC derivatives transaction reporting; prudential capital rules; financial services licensing and regulatory perimeter issues; and business change initiatives such as the establishment of new Citi business lines and legal entities.

The team requires a senior regulatory lawyer based in Asia to advise on banking and financial services regulations impacting Citi’s businesses in the region and would lead a team of three experienced regulatory lawyers. The role would be the senior regulatory lawyer for Citi in the Asia time zone, supporting regional business managers, regional Compliance managers and Citi’s product-aligned lawyers. The Legal Executive Group Manager (Regulatory) is a senior management-level position within the Legal Department that is responsible for managing a team and serving as a key strategic partner to senior business stakeholders and functional partners in matters of Regulations.

The overall objective of this role is to set the strategy for and manage a team providing day-to-day legal advice and guidance on Regulations areas to Citi Businesses and Functions in the region.

This role leads a team of lawyers providing guidance, support, and legal advice on Regulations to Citi's businesses and functions and has a significant degree of responsibility and authority. This role requires solid conceptual / practical grounding in the laws and regulations for the geographies in which we operate. This role also requires significant management responsibilities, including talent management, budgeting (including headcount and financial), and strategic planning for the team. This role has authority to negotiate and make independent decisions on issues / activities that have critical impact or influence on the company.

**In this role, you’re expected to**:
The role will be responsible for delivering technical and commercially-focused regulatory interpretive advice to Citi stakeholders on regulatory and business change developments impacting on Citi in the region. Responsibilities include:

- advising on certain major global financial services regulations during the Asia time zone, to the extent they impact on Citi business lines (for example, U.S. Bank Holding Company Act; global uncleared margin rule regimes) ;
- supporting Citi’s Government & Public Affairs, Regulatory Engagement and other stakeholders on policy advocacy initiatives, including assisting in the development of responses to consultation papers to regulators and policy-makers, attendance at legal-focused industry association working groups and meetings with regulators, in respect of developments in banking and financial services regulation in the region;
- advising Citi’s Regulatory Change Management group on the implications of proposed and new regulations on Citi’s business activities in Asia;
- serve as a key strategic business partner providing legal assistance and support to senior stakeholders regarding regulatory issues concerning Citi;
- representing the Legal Department on regulatory-related internal governance and oversight committees for regulatory change implementation projects;
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