Citi Group Financial Institution Director - ZURICH 

Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich 

214127603

The Financial Institutions Zürich-based Director level banker position is responsible for accomplishing results by providing Swiss-based clients with seamless coverage across the full suite of Citi products (across Banking, Markets and Services), deliver corporate finance and capital raising advice in close coordination with product and sector specialists. The overall objective of this role is to deliver Citi’s solutions and geographic breadth to public sector and private clients, as well as support the management of the Swiss FIG franchises from a risk, capital, control and governance perspective.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall parent client relationship management. Provide a wide range of treasury and corporate finance solutions, including cash management, custody, trade, FX/rate/equity derivatives, loan and bond capital market advice.
• Drive client planning, product-agnostic cross-selling, enhance client access and effectively manage capital allocation within the Banking & International Coverage Banker proposition
• Translate Citi’s strategy into an effective and efficient Corporate Bank business plan and drive a healthy balance between near- and long-term priorities
• Responsible for meeting revenue and other goals related to budget, risk management, and capital in partnership with Global Capital Management, Institutional Client Management and Risk; Manage and optimise capital and RWA utilisation across all aspects of the client relationships
• Understand global, regional and local market trends to identify growth opportunities, anticipate obstacles and communicate a forward-looking vision that is responsive to changes in the environment
• Drive innovation, speed to market, create corporate finance content to deliver value-added, differentiated advice
• Work in partnership with Investment Banking and seniors to originate and execute episodic transactions delivering to the client support across all financing, risk management and treasury aspects of the contemplated transactions.
• Drive Network penetration across products for clients that have international needs
• Ensure client relationships and proposed client solutions meet or exceed internal risk and return expectations, allocate capital prudently and in adherence to all Citi policies
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating clear consideration for safeguarding Citi and its reputation by complying with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and policy.
• Apply sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices; escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervising the activity of others and creating accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in people management
• Senior Credit Officer preferred
• In-depth experience advising clients on debt and capital management
• Demonstrated ability to balance between internal management and external client time
• Demonstrated understanding of compliance issues and regulatory requirements (global and local)
• Proven leadership skills and intellectual capability to create momentum and a collective agenda across multiple products with a diverse population and competing priorities
• Demonstrated intellectual grasp of the industry and ability to anticipate and lead the organizational response to future changes and translate vision into executable plans
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with pragmatic approach to ensure limited resources are directed appropriately
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's/MBA degree preferred from a top economics, business, or financial engineering program

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