Senior FX Technology Project Manager (VP)

Senior FX Technology Project Manager (VP) – Hybrid

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

About The Department

Citi has the largest FX presence of any bank globally.  Our physical presence in 60+ countries gives us unrivalled insight into global FX markets. Our clients benefit from this as well as unparalleled liquidity. 

We trade over 140 different currencies out of our centres, so it's no surprise that CitiFX has the broadest range of clients out of all the major FX banks.

FX Technology develops innovative technology solutions and focuses on providing exceptional service to our clients in full partnership with our product teams. We deliver customized solutions by utilizing cutting edge technologies to deploy everything from cloud computing to mobile solutions to APIs, creating a competitive advantage for Citi, our clients, our regulators and our stakeholders.

In this fast-paced environment, our diverse and inclusive team are focused on creating solutions. We would be nothing without our people. We value their skills, motivation and experience.  Increasing investment in technology has seen us roll out award winning applications, such as the award-winning Citi Velocity, an electronic trading platform that provides Citi's institutional clients with unprecedented access to capital markets intelligence and execution.

About The Team

The FX Technology Program Delivery team is focussed on driving delivery and execution of Projects and Programmes within FX Technology. We work with each of the technology teams across FX including e-Trading, Sales Technology, e-Commerce, Risk and Trade Processing; also interfacing with the business counterparts that make up FX technology’s major stakeholders. Our mission is to enable the technology teams to deliver great software and regularly deliver value to the business through planned initiatives both short and long term. We will drive and support execution of technical projects and programmes, which could include initiatives such as digitalisation, simplification, automation, introduction of new products and migration activities. In particular we will focus on efficiency, breaking complexity into manageable chunks, embracing Agile ways of working and providing project structure and support in a way that feels liberating to all involved.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our expanding Program Delivery team. The role will include managing one or multiple projects or programs within the FX technology space. You will work with the central Program Delivery team to ensure best practice governance is in place: establishing the project team, managing stakeholders, working with partners, creating and maintaining key project artefacts and driving successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving and coordinating overall technology delivery for one or multiple projects or programs
• Project management drawing on multiple methodologies as appropriate- including scoping initiatives, creating plans in Excel or Jira, managing progress of delivery
• Create and maintain a RAID log, raising risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, and then driving them to resolution or escalating where support is needed
• Input into the central Program team governance processes and best practices ensuring high standard Project and Program management
• Ability to lead and inspire delivery teams, often through matrix management of individuals from multiple different teams and functions  
• Chair meetings with application developers and with stakeholders, ranging from daily scrums to weekly updates to ad-hoc technical workshops
• Take and circulate meeting minutes – including tracking attendees, key discussion points and action logs
• Stakeholder management of both technology and business stakeholders up to executive level, including hosting and preparing Steering Committees, managing escalations, and managing multi-year delivery roadmaps
• Work with business teams to maintain the backlog and assess priorities on a frequent basis
• Create presentations, including for Operating Committees and Steering Committees
• Hosting of Steering and Operating Committees if / where applicable and presenting in other forums
• Input into the central Program Delivery team governance processes and best practices; ensuring high standard Project and Program delivery and enabling central standardisation across the department

Characteristics:

• Excellent communicator who can build strong relationships and break down silos
• Exceptional stakeholder management and presentation skills
• A problem solver keen to find solutions to complex challenges
• Exceptional organisational skills, accuracy and attention to detail
• Proactive and keen to take ownership of activities
• A team player able to collaborate with different teams
• An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
• Ability to design and implement suitable meetings and processes per team requirements and structure

Experience:

• Proven PM experience in FX technology or another Markets Area would be considered
• Proven experience managing complex projects through the Full project lifecycle
• Deep understanding of the trade lifecycle
• Experience managing complex technology projects involving technical teams and many moving parts
• Experience working with developers and technical teams
• Understanding of technology and the application development lifecycle
• Ability to understand complex systems and flows
• Experience managing projects in either Waterfall or Agile, with history of planning, risk mitigation and tracking
• Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar tools is beneficial
• Understanding of Agile and related methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, including ceremonies (daily stand ups, retrospectives, sprint planning) and planning mechanisms (epics, user stories, sprints) would be highly beneficial

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we’ll provide 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

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

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.

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