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Role Overview
This unique opportunity to lead financial strategy, analytics, and transformation initiatives across Citi’s Global Market Data Expense spans EMEA, NAM, and APAC. You will partner with senior business leaders, trading desks, finance, procurement, and operations teams to drive cost transparency, optimize costs, and deliver strategic transformation initiatives leveraging analytics, automation, and AI.
Team / Role Overview
The Business Expense Transparency Group is a global function responsible for optimizing market data spend and delivering best‑in‑class expense management across Citi. Operating across NAM, EMEA and APAC, the team oversees the full market data expense lifecycle and partners closely with Finance, Operations, Business Advisory, Procurement, Controllers, Trading Desks, Business Management and Senior Leadership.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in budgeting, forecasting, planning, and expense analysis across Citi’s Global Market Data Expense.
- Monitor performance against budget, YoY and MoM, highlighting risks and opportunities while providing cost transparency across all businesses.
- Partner with Business Advisory and Executive Leadership to support cost‑saving and usage optimisation initiatives.
- Develop reporting, metrics and trade analysis to improve visibility of vendor spend and expense trends.
- Validate expenses, support reconciliations, allocations, payments, and audit requirements.
- Partner globally with Finance and Operations to ensure accurate reporting by business, legal entity, and region.
- Support month‑end and quarter‑end activities including accruals, prepayments, ledger investigations, and financial commentary.
Strategic Analytics & Business Partnership
- Provide actionable insights that support Business Advisory and Management decision making for cost reduction initiatives.
- Produce management reporting for stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Translate complex financial data into clear expense commentary.
- Partner with Trading Desks, Business CAOs, Finance teams, and Senior Leaders.
- Lead expense monthly reviews with Management and BET, presenting performance against budget, YoY and variance scenarios.
Transformation & Continuous Improvement
- Lead or contribute to automation, process redesign, and AI‑enabled initiatives.
- Drive improvements across reporting, governance, and expense management processes.
- Enhance allocation, accrual, and reporting processes.
- Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, strengthen controls, and increase scalability.
Governance & Financial Control
- Maintain strong accounting, reconciliation, and control standards.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements.
- Investigate and resolve financial variances and reporting issues.
- Support development of robust accounting controls and governance frameworks.
- Promote transparency, accountability, and operational excellence.
Qualifications
- Strong experience producing management reporting and financial cost transparency for senior stakeholders.
- Solid accounting experience, including accruals, reconciliations, and balance sheet management.
- Experience implementing accounting controls and resolving financial issues.
- Proven record of proactive process improvement and operational efficiency.
- Strong analytical, financial, and critical thinking skills.
- Experience supporting planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes.
- Ability to interpret complex data and deliver clear recommendations.
- Excellent communication and presentation to senior audiences.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification preferred, or equivalent work experience.
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
- Experience in Financial Services or Market Data environments.
- Exposure to automation, analytics, or AI‑driven process improvement.
- Experience partnering with Front Office, Trading, Operations, Finance teams, and Senior Management.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure.
- Discretionary annual performance related bonus.
- Private medical insurance packages.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Pension Plan.
- Paid parental leave.
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.
- Access to an array of learning and development resources.
Paid Parental Leave
Citi is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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