CITI Equities Product Control Analyst II

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Job Overview

The Prod Ctrl Analyst 2 is an intermediate level position responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the bank's books and records in coordination with the Finance team. The overall objective of this role is to control and support data integrity and general ledger reconciliation, profit attribution and new activity analysis, valuation control and product P&L and balance sheet reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, assess, analyze, and evaluate processes and data

• Identify process gaps and control issues

• Escalate anomalies and issues in an efficient and timely manner

• Interpret data, identify inconsistencies through research and recommend solutions based on analysis

• Develop knowledge of how team interacts with others to accomplish Finance goals

• Develop basic knowledge of industry practices and standards

• Exchange complex information succinctly and with discretion

• 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.

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of relevant experience

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Job Description:

Currently, the Equity Markets Product Control area is seeking an analyst to join the team. This is an exciting opportunity to utilize your analytical skills and increase your knowledge of how equity and equity derivative products are traded and utilized in financial markets. The candidate will be placed within a team that supports the North American Equities Trading business. In this role, the candidate will be exposed to various equity based products, as well as the income statement and balance sheet reporting of these products, additionally the candidate will work closely with traders to understand risk based attributions of the reporting while providing daily written and verbal commentary on the business and market dynamics impacting these numbers.   Alongside the reporting the candidate will be asked to detect, and remediate various efficiency based projects, while collaborating with various functions across the Citi team.

Responsibilities include:

• Daily Profit and Loss (P&L) analysis and reporting

• Utilize the front office risk system’s Profit Attribution Analysis (PAA) to help explain the daily PnL movements for the day and ensure daily trading movements are accurate

• Preparation of market commentaries to explain significant P&L movements and events

• Reconciliation of income statement and balance sheet during month end close

• Networking with other areas of Finance to ensure policies and procedures are consistently adhered to

• Collaborating with cross functional teams, including front office, market risk, and operations to resolve open risks

• Performing analysis for ad hoc requests regarding regulatory, valuation, risk and operational concerns.

Requirements

• Four year bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math, or other related disciplines

• 1-2 years of relevant work experience in the financial services industry or related work experience in       an accounting or finance department.

• Strong understanding of Financial Analysis, Markets, and Products

• Effective written, verbal, and telephone based communication skills

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills are a must; other financial systems are a plus

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Job Family Group:

Finance

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Job Family:

Product Control

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Accounting Processes and Financial Controls, Constructive Debate, Data Analysis, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Management Reporting, Policy, Procedure, and Regulation, Portfolio Analysis, Product Knowledge, Risk Identification and Assessment.

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Other Relevant Skills

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

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