Data Science Senior Lead Analyst - Senior Vice President

Excited to grow your career?

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to the Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) Surveillance & Employee Licensing team.

By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

The Data Science Senior Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who closely follows the latest trends in their field and adapts them for application within their job and the business. Excellent communication skills are required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, particularly colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. This role is accountable for significant direct business results or authoritative advice regarding the operations of the business and necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy. It primarily affects a sub-function and involves handling staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.

This role sits within the Surveillance Intelligence Unit (SIU) of Citi’s Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) function. SIU is responsible for ensuring global consistency in data management, surveillance control structure and program governance, and for facilitating a locally relevant suite of controls aligned regionally while ensuring completeness, effectiveness and program execution alignment globally.

What you will do

• Design and develop tools and methods for generating and analyzing trade and electronic communications surveillance alerts.
• Improve surveillance tools and applications by coordinating with Information Technology on the timely implementation of enhancements and proactively addressing potential issues.
• Conduct strategic data analysis, identify insights and implications, and make strategic recommendations; develop data displays that clearly communicate complex analysis.
• Mine and analyze data from various banking platforms to drive optimization and improve data quality.
• Deliver analytics initiatives to address business problems, identifying required data, assessing time & effort, and establishing a project plan.
• Consult with business clients to determine system functional specifications and apply comprehensive understanding of how multiple areas collectively integrate to achieve business objectives.
• Consult with users and clients to solve complex system issues/problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes, systems and industry standards; recommend solutions.
• Lead system change processes from requirements through implementation; provide user and operational support of applications to business users.
• Formulate and define systems scope and goals for complex projects through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry standards.
• Impact the business directly by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impact own team and closely related work teams.
• Consider the business implications of applying technology to the current business environment; identify and communicate risks and impacts.
• Drive communication between business leaders and IT; exhibit sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Perform other duties and functions as assigned.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

What we will need from you

• Experience in data science, machine learning/AI, quantitative research, quantitative analysis, advanced statistical methods, surveillance design, and/or data modeling.
• Experience designing and prototyping surveillance patterns using time series analysis, feature engineering, natural language processing, and/or advanced statistical methods is highly desirable.
• Prior experience working within financial services or a regulatory agency is highly desirable.
• Process Improvement or Project Management experience.

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience; potentially a Master’s degree.

What we can offer you

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

By joining Citi London or Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure.
• A discretional annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Pension Plan.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Exclusive discounts for employees, family, and friends.
• Access to an array of learning and development resources.

Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Data Science

Time Type: Full time

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