Citi UK | Prime Finance Applications Support - Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities

• Citi technology are seeking a highly motivated IT professional to join our Production Services team support group in Belfast.
• The role will entail working closely with business partners, developing application knowledge, driving and tracking projects around stability and service improvement, incident resolution and follow-up activities and providing strategic technical solutions.
• You will develop detailed knowledge of the Prime Business.
• You will be working closely with your counterparts in India, UK, Hong Kong, US and Canada operating in a follow-the-sun global model, along with application developers and business analysts in the team.
• You will gain significant experience of the advanced technologies used to run our business regionally and globally, giving you the vast exposure to new and existing methodologies and systems.

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Advanced experience with Unix/Linux operating systems, complex SQL queries, and financial messaging technologies (e.g., Solace, MQ, Kafka).
• Experience in trading and Middle office functions a bonus but not essential.
• Monitoring and Automation Tools: Advance-level proficiency with batch scheduling tools (e.g., Autosys) and enterprise monitoring systems (e.g., ITRS Geneos).
• Technical Expertise: Act as the primary subject matter expert for Prime Brokerage or Securities Lending application functionalities, architecture, and interdependencies.
• Regulatory and Compliance Assurance: Understanding ternal regulatory mandates (e.g., SFTR, Dodd-Frank).
• Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of the trade lifecycle, including trade booking, collateral management, and settlement cycles.
• Familiarity with industry-standard Securities Lending platforms (e.g., Equilend, Pirum) and associated data interfaces.
• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.
• Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn.
• Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization.
• Effective written and verbal communications including ability to explain technical issues in simple terms that non-IT staff can understand.
• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams.
• Ability to plan and organize workload.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder.
• Experience in an Application Support role.
• Good all-round technical skills

Citi UK

Citi UK is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London and Belfast.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance