Strategic Equity Solutions – Structuring & Origination Analyst

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Job Overview

Citi's Markets division is one of the world's premier global trading and financing franchises, delivering integrated sales, trading, and structuring capabilities across equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities to institutional clients across nearly 80 countries. Within Equities, Citi's Strategic Equity Solutions (SES) platform provides bespoke financing and structured product capabilities — including equity margin lending, NAV and fund share financing, and structured equity derivatives — to a sophisticated client base spanning hedge funds, alternative asset managers, and institutional investors.

This Analyst position sits within Citi's SES Structuring and Origination team in London, a function that designs and executes tailored equity financing and structured derivative solutions for clients operating across alternative investment strategies. The role spans the full deal lifecycle — from initial structuring and pricing through to execution and legal documentation — and requires close collaboration with trading, sales, legal, and risk stakeholders. It is a genuinely cross-functional position that combines technical rigour with commercial awareness in one of Citi's highest-priority growth areas within Equities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the origination team with the preparation of marketing materials, tailored to specific situations, various financial products and different type of clients located in multiple jurisdictions in EMEA. Prepare daily reports for existing clients of Citi to monitor live transactions (e.g. share buybacks, margin loans and structured equity derivatives).

• Develop and maintain pricing models and analytical frameworks for structured equity derivatives and financing products, incorporating dividend assumptions, corporate action scenarios, and stock-specific risk factors to support competitive and accurate client pricing.

• Partner with sales and trading teams to identify and originate new business opportunities, providing technical structuring support and responding to bespoke client enquiries with well-constructed, commercially viable solutions.

• Draft and review legal and transactional documentation, including term sheets, ISDA schedules, and bespoke financing agreements, coordinating with legal counsel and internal control functions to ensure terms are commercially sound and risk-appropriate.

• Monitor and manage risk across live structured positions, conducting ongoing portfolio-level assessment of credit, market, and liquidity exposures, and escalating where appropriate in line with internal risk governance frameworks.

• Contribute to platform automation and efficiency initiatives by working with technology teams to develop scalable structuring tools, enhance internal systems, and improve the operational workflow of the desk.

What We Need From You

• Genuine interest in financial markets, equity derivatives and financing products. Eager to learn and good team spirit  

• Quantitative and financial modelling capability — a degree in a numerate discipline (Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Financial Engineering, or related STEM field) is strongly preferred, supported by hands-on experience applying quantitative methods to live product structuring.

• Knowledge of equity derivative products, including vanilla options, bespoke payoff structures, and equity financing instruments, with the ability to independently model, price, and document transactions.

• Strong stakeholder communication skills — the ability to engage credibly with clients, traders, risk partners, and compliance teams in both written and verbal contexts, translating complex structural detail into clear and commercially grounded terms.

• Knowledge of Python, VBA, or equivalent analytical tools, with the ability to build and maintain pricing models, automate analytical workflows, and contribute meaningfully to technology-driven desk initiatives.

What Citi Can Offer You

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 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

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.

We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. If you are actively working with clients, have a passion for relationships and want to be part of a successful global franchise – then apply today.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

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

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified 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, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

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Job Family Group:

Institutional Trading

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Job Family:

Structuring

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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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