Job Purpose:

To provide assistance in:

• originating and structuring hybrid capital for banks, insurers and corporates
• advising on the capital markets impact of regulatory developments

Job Background/context:

Permanent contract.  The role is within Debt Capital Markets

Together with the DCM Coverage teams, CSS helps clients (mostly investment-grade borrowers) issue hybrid capital instruments into the international fixed income markets

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and preparing pitch documents
• Structuring/executing transactions and preparing/reviewing transaction documentation
• Liaising with other Capital Markets/Banking/TEG/Legal teams
• Modelling/analysing client balance sheets and capital requirements
• Keeping Capital Markets/Banking teams up to date with regulatory/rating agency developments
• Helping to manage and develop junior members of CSS

Development Value:

• The role provides a blend of marketing and structuring experience with a market-leading team in a demanding environment.  It would be a good platform for more senior origination/structuring roles

Person Specification

Knowledge/Experience:

• Capital markets / investment banking experience
• Ideally with previous legal, regulatory, accounting, tax and/or rating agency experience Fluent English is a prerequisite.  Other languages would be an advantage but not essential

Skills:

• Requires high calibre written and verbal communication skills
• Strong comfort with numerical/modelling/analytical tasks
• Ability to handle multiple tasks under pressure
• Advanced knowledge of Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• Planning and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise
• Ability to work independently under general instructions
• Ability to manage junior staff
• Graduate degree

Competencies:

• Strong technical skills
• Enthusiastic/ confident/ outgoing
• Sense of humour/ robust personality/ resilience/ self-confidence
• Professional and competent
• Dedicated/ keen to learn/ committed to role
• Good team player
• Initiative/ adaptability/ innovation

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the Certification Regime. The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which has come into effect on 7 March 2016. Under the Certification Regime, certain 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, certain 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, 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.

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