VP Product Manager, FX E-Trading | London, UK

Citi; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in E-Trading to Citi's Global FX 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.

Role Overview
The FX business intends to hire a product manager to drive the delivery of quantitative products, in particular focused on the STIRT business. This role will sit within the E-Trading Product team, reporting to the E-Trading Product Manager for Pricing. They will work in very close collaboration with the Head of STIRT, the STIRT trading teams, E-Trading and STIRT quant teams, and our colleagues in Markets Technology.

What you'll do
The role will focus on our STIRT offering, and in particular on planning and executing on our high level strategic objectives for the business. These include supporting our efforts towards improving curve construction, increasing usage of market data, market connectivity, client pricing, and risk management, across G10 STIRT and LM STIRT products.

These objectives must be achieved within the broader context of delivering algorithmic logic in a safe and controlled manner, while making progress towards deprecation of legacy components.

An additional key responsibility for this hire will be to work with seniors in MQA in planning their team's output and ensuring that delivery is aligned with associated tasks being undertaken by teams in Technology.

The role will require specific, domain level experience within the FX swap and STIRT area, strong business analysis and/or project management background, and very strong interpersonal skills. This domain experience can be obtained on the job, but a broad understanding of markets would be useful.

The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of STIRT business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning. You will also be required to:

• Provide direction and technical leadership on complex, high-impact projects and in all phases of the development and implementation process, ensuring essential procedures are followed
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated and unique situations and contribute to formulation of standards and strategies for own area and other functional areas
• Resolve issues that have impact beyond own area and apply in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas
• Work as a team to achieve objectives and negotiate with internal and external parties
• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

What we'll need from you

• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Proven interpersonal skills with ability to partner and influence across organizational lines
• Proven ability of using complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques
• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

What we can offer you
This is a role that'll offer you the opportunity to build an in-depth knowledge of financial services operations. Every day there will be new business challenges that will help you develop new skills that can drive your career.

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, 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 (which is 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
• Special 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.

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.