Control Analyst - EMEA Control Group in Belfast

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: Serves as a Compliance Control Room Intermediate Analyst for Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM)’s Communication Surveillance team responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight for a suite of controls designed to detect behaviours that may need assessed for regulatory rules or internal policies and procedures. When potentially anomalous behaviour is detected, the team is responsible for escalating the activity and working collaboratively with partners across the first and second lines of defence to determine the appropriate resolution of the matter, which may include employee discipline. The ICRM Global Surveillance platform encompasses a number of surveillance related portfolios including trade surveillance, e-communications and voice surveillance, employee trading, outside activities surveillance, and information barrier surveillance.

What you'll do:

• Reviewing and analysing Banking deals and/or reports relating to activity and/or queries from the business.
• Properly documenting the review and disposition of the exceptions as well as escalating matters appropriately.
• Assisting team leads in responses to inquiries or requests from internal partners (e.g. ICRM Assurance, Internal Audit, Legal).
• Assisting with the design and implementation of new controls as well as the refinement of existing ones. Interacting with IT on the specific design and testing of new surveillances.
• Additional duties as assigned.
• Assist in the effective documentation for enhancements and changes to process and procedures; Analyzing and collating MIS to support the metrics model for surveillance within agreed timeframes and to a high standard.

What we'll need from you:

• Previous experience within a Compliance / Risk / Control function.
• Knowledge of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and with people at varied levels of the organisation.
• Strong project management and organisational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time.
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Some knowledge in area of focus.

Education:

Required: Bachelor’s degree; and/or experience in compliance, legal or other control-related function in the financial services firm, regulatory organisation, or legal/consulting firm, or a combination thereof.

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 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 (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 energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Job Family Group: Compliance

Job Family: Surveillance

Time Type: Full time

Most Relevant Skills: Business Acumen, Credible Challenge, Data Analysis, Laws and Regulations, Management Reporting, Policy and Procedure, Referral and Escalation, Risk Controls and Monitors, Risk Identification and Assessment, Risk Remediation.

Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.