CCO & Banking Head- Hungary

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Job Overview

Citi, as a banking institution, has been in Hungary since 1985 and the well-established Citi Solutions Center has been founded in 2005 and are being operated as one franchise. Citi Hungary is a branch of CEP and Citi Solutions Center, regulated by Bank of Ireland.

The CCOBH will have oversight of the end-to-end operations in the country.

We also have our Hub Management Country (HMC) team that manages 11 of HMC markets predominantly based in Hungary.

The Hungary franchise has grown in recent years to also support several global functions such as Risk, Technology, Foundational Services, Finance etc.

Central Europe Leadership is also covered from Hungary in several business and functional areas, for example Compliance, Finance, Legal, Corporate Banking risk.

The Hungary CCO & Banking Head is the face of Citi in the country playing an instrumental role in leading the growth and protecting the Citi franchise in the country. The role will involve implementing a focused, client-centric strategy to optimize the business opportunities for the country. The candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining client relationships by understanding clients’ needs and delivering the best of Citi.

The job holder is the main representative of Citi in front of the Hungary government, relevant regulators, clients, media, and community. This role acts as a first line of defense with regards to assessing risks to safeguard the franchise, its clients, assets as well as its employees while ensuring compliance to all applicable laws, regulations, and institutional guidelines. The Citi Country Officer & Banking Head (CCOBH) will partner with Citi’s International organization to drive client engagement and delivery across all lines of business. The CCO & Banking Head is responsible for attracting, engaging and retaining key talent while fostering a work environment that supports psychological safety and wellness of the human assets.

This role reports to the Central Europe Sub-cluster & Banking Head.

Responsibilities:

International

Franchise Management in terms of developing and executing Citi’s overall client’s and business strategy to achieve both short and long- term goals in compliance with corporate standards and local regulations.

• Ensuring compliance with all corporate policies, including ethical standards, corporate governance standards and business practice requirements.
• Applying judgment in understanding issues and making sound decisions that support, confirm, and enhance Citi's mission and vision.
• Identifying, assessing, mitigating, communicating, and anticipating all types of risks through the development and sustainability of appropriate control mechanisms.
• Overseeing, and escalating as necessary, the resourcing requirements of the legal entity to perform its governance, risk management and compliance obligations and reporting material risks / issues affecting the legal entity to the appropriate governance committees.
• Exhibit efficient and effective leadership that touches all parts of the franchise and provides a strong role model.
• Ability to attain and maintain strong relationship management with clients, government officials, regulators, employees, and media that engender a high level of trust and transparency to support the development of Citi’s market position and growth.
• In partnership with HR, executing Citi’s Talent agenda and overseeing franchise-wide Talent review and development activities.
• Sponsor employee engagement across the franchise ensuring employees at all levels are engaged, productive and effective.
• CCOBH is considered as the face of Citi and plays an instrumental role in the local community and memberships in selected associations such as HIPA, AmCham and ABSL. 

Banking

Develop and monitor a client-driven franchise growth strategy which is delivered through

people and franchise management.

Management of Citi’s Banking organization which revolves around three lines of business:

• Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Commercial Bank and Wealth. The unified Banking & International organization oversees the local delivery of the full firm to clients in each of the markets where Citi has onshore presence.
• The role will have responsibility for both flow and episodic revenue which requires strong leadership, risk skills, corporate finance mindset and partnerships to deliver best in class solutions.
• Drive innovation and speed to market and promote cross-selling of products across the full platform.
• Responsible for the Hungary Banking P&L.
• Responsible for the oversight of management of Hub Managed Countries - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania.
• Responsible for overall parent relationship management of clients and providing a wide range of treasury and corporate finance solutions, including cash management, trade, vendor finance, FX, general credit, loans, debt capital markets, share repurchase, and interest rate and equity derivatives.
• Ensuring efficient use of Capital and that Capital returns (RORC and RoTCE) are delivered across the franchise.
• Responsible for meeting revenue goals and other goals related to budget, risk management, and credit allocation in partnership with GCM and Risk.
• Lead the Sustainability agenda and the digital transformation for clients with particular emphasis on digital natives and digital tools.

Qualifications and Skills

Minimum of 20 years of relevant experience, out of which at least 15 must have been in the

banking industry and, at least 2 as MD/ED, with responsibility in several areas of banking

operations including business development and customer relationship management

• Strong Corporate Finance and Credit skills. Senior Credit Officer (SCO) certification.
• Business Management and running a P&L.
• In-depth experience and understanding of banking products – loans / debts (short and long-term), capital management, cash management, trade products, corporate and structured finance, DCM, and derivatives products.
• Relationship/stakeholder management with both internal and external stakeholders
• Proven leadership skills and strategic thinking to create momentum and a collective agenda across multiple products with a diverse population and competing priorities.
• Ability to anticipate and lead the organizational response to future changes and translate vision into executable plans.
• Ability to drive and foster simplification to achieve efficiency.

Education:

A minimum of first degree or its equivalent in any discipline plus a higher degree or professional qualification in any business-related discipline.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Senior Management Function pursuant to the FCA and PRA Senior Managers Regime. The Senior Managers Regime is one element of the FCA and PRA Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016. Under the Senior Managers Regime, certain Citi entities must ensure that employees working in certain roles, designated as a Senior Management Function, where the individual is referred to as a Senior Manager, are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role. As a Senior Manager your appointment must be pre-approved by the FCA and/or PRA before you perform any regulated activity. 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

To comply with the requirements of the Senior Manager Function, certain Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Senior Manager Function 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.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read the information above and that you are applying for a Senior Management Function. You also agree to Citi carrying out any additional screening required, including permitted criminal record checks, reference checks, credit checks and any other relevant background checks.

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Job Family Group:

Business Strategy, Management & Administration

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Job Family:

Business Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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