Finance Desk Applications Development Manager – Fixed Income Tech, Citi

Citi

Location:
United Kingdom, London

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Finance Desk Technology is part of Fixed Income organization within Citi’s Markets Technology. The Team works closely with the Citi Global Finance Desk and focused on Repo trading activity. The suite of Finance Desk applications provides position management, trade capture, electronic trading, market risk processing and reporting. This is supported by a mixed technology environment consisting of client-server applications, developed in Java, Angular and C#, with services running on Linux servers and Cloud Containers. This provides unique opportunity to work closely with the business stakeholders while building towards the strategic technology roadmap.

Job Responsibility:

Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
Close engagement with senior stakeholders and technology partners . Participate in key business initiatives primarily focused on Market Risk and Position/Inventory Management
Contribute towards improving the Dev Ops CI/CD Pipelines and Strategic Architecture
Drive technology roadmap for finance desk. Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary
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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards

Requirements:

Prior experience working with Capital markets in Fixed Income and Repo processing
Experience with Market Risk, eTrading and Funding is necessary
Prior experience with Capital Markets Trade Capture Front to Back flows is preferred
Experience of working with traders and senior management in both technology and business
Experience in applications development with Spring boot/Microservice-style
Experience with Relational Databases like Oracle, MSSQL
Experience with Messaging and Caching frameworks such as Kafka and Gemfire/Ignite
Experience with Cloud Technologies
Experience in management and building Global teams
Experience in working with distributed teams situated globally in different time-zones
Flexible and adaptive, team player
Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to take ownership, drive strategy and well organized
Degree educated (Master’s preferred) or equivalent experience in a similar role

What we offer:

27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
A discretional annual performance related bonus
Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Pension Plan
Paid Parental Leave
Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
Access to an array of learning and development resources

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 26, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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