Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution?

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

The Program Management Senior Lead is a strategic professional within the Markets COO Front Office Transformation department who delivers material business or regulatory change initiatives. This pivotal position demands deep Capital Markets experience and exceptional communication and diplomacy skills for effective internal negotiation, influencing senior stakeholders, guiding cross-functional teams, and engaging external clients. They are accountable for delivering significant direct business results, providing authoritative advice on business operations, and driving strategy through close collaboration with Sales & Trading, Business Management, Legal, Operations, and IT teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead and drive execution of the delivery of cross-business transformation or regulatory initiatives to meet
  the required outcomes for Markets.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Markets Businesses/ Risk and Control, Operations,
  Technology, Finance, Compliance, Legal to define project scope, objectives and deliverables, ensuring
  alignment with business goals.

• Program Planning & Direction: Support the planning, directing, and coordination of day-to-day activities for programs or portfolios, ensuring alignment with business goals. This includes creating program plans, charters, and ensuring funding approval.

• Stakeholder Management: Identify and manage relationships with all key stakeholders, including senior management. Ensure effective communication of status, issues and risks, and secure commitment for resources.

• Issue & Risk Management: Lead the identification, resolution, and escalation of program issues and risks, developing and executing mitigation strategies as needed.

• Scope & Objective Alignment: Work with stakeholders and Program Sponsors to define and align program scope, business case, and cost-benefit analysis with overall business objectives. This includes the ability to analyze and critically assess large datasets to inform robust program scoping and strategic definition.

• Process & Standards Adherence: Drive adherence to established program processes, procedures, methods, and standards for consistent program delivery.

• Resource & Staffing Management: Ensure programs are appropriately staffed and manage overall staffing requirements to meet operational needs.

• Strategic & Financial Oversight: Contribute to budget, policy formulation and planning.

What we’ll need from you

• Delivered large-scale business transformation and/or regulatory change within finance.

• Led complex cross-business programs from initiation to closure, achieving measurable outcomes.

• Managed scope, cost-benefit analysis, and dependencies for multi-workstream initiatives.

• Understood and applied Markets business operations models and controls.

• Influenced and negotiated with senior leaders through effective stakeholder management.

• Drove strategic solutions by assessing complex problems and defining clear objectives.

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

• Professional qualification, e.g. Prince 2, Agile is advantageous

What we can offer you

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

By joining Citi Belfast, 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:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances

• 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.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

Job Family Group:

Project and Program Management:

Job Family:

Program Management

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

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

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