Corporate Bank Director - Metals & Mining (UK Industrials) in London

The Banker is a senior-level position responsible for assisting clients with their corporate needs, including raising funds in the capital markets, as well as providing strategic advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and other types of financial transactions in coordination with the broader Institutional Banking team. The Banker also serves as an intermediary in trading for clients. The overall objective of this role is to act as a strategic advisor to our clients by supporting them with their day-to-day operations, formulating investment strategies and raising capital across cyclical commodity-driven markets.

• Lead the origination, structuring, and execution of transactions and financings, with a strong focus on Metals & Mining sector dynamics, and foster and leverage ongoing global relationships inside and outside of the organization.
• Manage credit risk of the client portfolio and allocate capital prudently through partnership with senior credit officers and capital management.
• Provide a wide range of treasury and corporate finance solutions including cash management, trade, vendor finance, FX, general credit, loans, debt capital markets, structured finance, share repurchase, and interest rate and equity derivatives for a selected client portfolio.
• Provide sophisticated financial solutions tailored to clients’ needs and act as a content provider on industry and market trends.
• Meet revenue and other financial goals by leveraging Citi’s full spectrum of Institutional Client Groups (ICG) products and services and ensure solutions meet or exceed internal risk, return and compliance requirements, ethical standards, and anticipated future changes in the marketplace.
• Proactively leverage industry trends and client solutions to propose new ideas and content for clients.
• Partner with ICG partners to execute episodic transactions and drive client planning by delivering product agnostic solutions, client access, and effective capital allocation.
• Identify and lead new business opportunities enabling a balanced growth of the client portfolio.
• Recruit and develop diverse talent for the Corporate Bank and serve as a mentor to junior bankers.
• 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• Current/recent direct experience with Metals & Mining clients.
• Demonstrated collaboration with multiple corporate banking stakeholders including coverage teams, risk, and product partners.
• Strong understanding of the Metals & Mining sector, including commodity markets, project lifecycles, capital intensity, and ESG considerations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of corporate banking, including lending, capital markets, derivatives, trade and commodity finance, and the credit approval process.
• Demonstrated leadership, organizational, negotiation, presentation, sales, client relationship-building, analytical, and credit skills.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Proven experience in originating, structuring, and executing complex financings.
• Experience with large, global corporate clients and commodity-linked exposures, including familiarity with capital markets products, derivatives, credit, cash management, trade finance, and securities products.
• Strong understanding of capital management and ability to efficiently allocate capital across portfolio.
• Strong track record of developing complex client relationships and balancing capital deployment, returns, and credit appetite.
• Experience managing diverse teams and demonstrated commitment to talent development.
• Ability to influence and manage multiple internal stakeholders.
• Ideally 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong credit background with demonstrated ability to analyse and structure complex credit transactions, particularly in commodity-driven sectors – SCO qualification desired.

• Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience.
• MBA or Master’s degree in business preferred.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the Certification Regime. The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which has come into effect on 7 March 2016. Under the Certification Regime, certain Citi entities must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety: Honesty, integrity and reputation; Financial soundness; Competence and capability.

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, certain Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above. This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, reference checks, credit checks and other background checks. If hired for this role, you will also be required to complete an annual declaration regarding your Fitness and Propriety.

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