Securities & Derivatives Senior Lead Analyst (Senior Vice President) in Belfast

Citi's Markets Operations group provides a full suite of strategic advisory and financing products to multinational and local corporations, financial and public sector institutions, governments, privately held businesses, and many of the world's most successful and influential individuals and families in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. We provide world‑class financial products and services as diverse as the needs of the thousands of corporations, institutions, governments and investors we serve.

The In‑Business Risk & Control (IBRC) function within Equities Middle Office provides centralized risk oversight, control governance and initiative coordination across the Equities Operations landscape. The team partners with ECO, ORM and broader Markets Operations stakeholders to ensure robust control frameworks, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

This role is the IBRC lead for Equities Middle Office, providing risk and control governance across Equities Cash, Equities Derivatives, Syndicates, Prime Finance, Stock Loan, Delta One and OTC Confirmations. The successful candidate will maintain and enhance the risk and control governance framework, proactively identify and monitor Key Risk Indicators, manage third‑party and vendor oversight, coordinate attestations and corporate hygiene activities, and drive risk reduction initiatives as they arise across the function.

What you'll do

• Maintain and enhance the IBRC governance framework and virtual IBRC Team across Equities Middle Office, ensuring standardized governance over attestations, corporate hygiene, risk updates, commentary, audit engagement, working groups and central initiatives.
• Partner with ECO and ORM teams across Equities to ensure consistent risk oversight and control effectiveness.
• Design, develop and maintain Key Risk Indicator dashboards to proactively identify emerging risks, control weaknesses and trends across Equities Middle Office operations, monitoring outputs and driving timely escalation where thresholds are breached.
• Oversee third‑party and vendor risk governance for Equities Middle Office, ensuring appropriate due diligence, ongoing monitoring, performance oversight and independent validation of vendor‑generated outputs.
• Represent Equities Middle Office in senior working groups across Markets and Operations, contributing to governance forums and cross‑functional risk committees.
• Coordinate end‑to‑end attestation processes across all Equities Middle Office desks, including sign‑off tracking, timeliness monitoring and completeness assurance.
• Manage access entitlement governance, records management, regulatory reporting oversight and other control‑related activities as required by the evolving risk landscape.
• Take ownership of risk and control initiatives as they arise, providing senior oversight and driving delivery across the Equities Middle Office landscape.
• Maintain and develop the Equities Middle Office Risk SharePoint hub, ensuring stakeholders have self‑service access to current risk information, governance calendars, MI and policy documentation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across Equities Middle Office desks, Markets Operations COO, Technology, Compliance, Legal and Front Office teams, establishing regular communication cadences and ensuring consistent messaging.
• Embed a strong Controls and Compliance culture across Equities Middle Office, developing and rolling out training and awareness programmes as required.
• Appropriately assess risk in the business decisions made, demonstrating 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 and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

What we need from you

• Extensive experience in operations and risk management within the financial industry, with strong knowledge of the Markets business, particularly Equities Operations (Cash, Derivatives, Syndicates, Prime Finance, Stock Loan, Delta One and/or OTC Confirmations).
• Proven experience in building and maintaining risk and control governance frameworks, including attestation management, MCA oversight and audit engagement.
• Strong understanding of operational risk management principles, including risk identification, assessment, monitoring and mitigation.
• Experience with Key Risk Indicator design, development and monitoring, including threshold calibration and escalation frameworks.
• Experience with third‑party and vendor risk management, including due diligence, ongoing monitoring and performance oversight.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills – the ability to communicate complex risk topics clearly to a wide range of audiences, from desk‑level operations through to senior management, and to build trusted relationships across multiple functions is critical for this role.
• Experience successfully collaborating with multiple stakeholders across the Markets business and broader Citi Enterprise Risk Management and Operations, Technology teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities and deadlines, with the flexibility to take on new responsibilities as the risk landscape evolves.
• Proficiency with SharePoint, MS Office, Tableau or Power BI, and governance/risk management tools.
• Experience working with second‑line and third‑line partners.
• Bachelor's or university degree or equivalent experience.

What we can offer you

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure.
• Discretionary annual performance‑related bonus.
• Private medical insurance packages tailored to personal circumstances.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Pension plan.
• Paid parental leave.
• Special discounts for employees, family and friends.
• Access to learning and development resources.

Citi is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, 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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