Job Title:  Country Markets Head and Treasurer

Organisation: Citi Bank

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was formed by the merger of banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group in 1998; Travelers was subsequently spun off from the company in 2002. Citigroup owns Citicorp, the holding company for Citibank, as well as several international subsidiaries. Citigroup is incorporated in Delaware.

Job Summary:   The Country Markets Head and Treasurer is a senior level position responsible for developing, leading and aligning the Citi Markets platform and the client target market. The role is also responsible for overseeing the balance sheet and managing bank’s liquidity in line with regulatory requirements and limits.

The overall objective of this role is to create a cross-product strategy that ensures Citi is positioned as the leader in the market, and achieves market and wallet share growth.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop short and long-term strategies for the business to achieve revenue growth targets, in line with organizational objectives.
• Responsible to originate episodic trades with the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, as well as being the primary in-country sales contact for the two.
• Build a franchise network across the region that performs against local and international banks.
• Increase market and wallet share for the business and ensure the Episodic trade opportunity is fully explored.
• Manage external interfaces with Regulators and industry groups and efficient execution of key initiatives.
• Partner with HR and provide direction and oversight to human capital related processes and programs, leading the People Strategy.
• Create and ensure the governance and control infrastructure in partnership with control functions.
• Partner with compliance and legal in interaction and dialogue with key regulators.
• Partner with Finance to complete the annual financial planning and budgeting process.
• Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit and Finance to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure.
• Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics.
• Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions, and ensure that all team members understand the need to do the same and demonstrating proper consideration for the firm’s reputation.
• Be familiar with and adhere to Citi’s Code of Conduct and the Plan of Supervision for Global Markets and ensure that all team members understand the need to do the same.
• Adhere to all policies and procedures.
• Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe.
• 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
• Manage the trading book, accrual book, funding, gapping, liquidity and reserve management requirements.
• Manage the balance sheet to comply with regulations, internal corporate mandated ratios, liquidity parameters and risk policies.
• Improve balance sheet deposit quality according to rules and regulations and assist in managing capital and the capital remittances process.
• Manage the transfer pricing process for assets and liabilities, and manage liquidity, the balance sheet and capital requirements.
• Implement interest rate hedging policies and monitor portfolios to ensure that risks are controlled.
• Managing liquidity risk for the entity, monitoring liquidity metrics including limits and triggers, and ensuring compliance with the risk appetite.
• Preparing the relevant legal entity’s annual forecasted balance sheet and developing legal entity funding plan and contingency funding plan in accordance with the firm-wide Funding and Liquidity Forecasting Process.
• Managing the Assets and Liabilities Governance Committee for the legal entity.

• 15+ years of experience in a related role
• Credibility to lead, motivate and influence a diverse population across geographies, products and matrixed reporting lines.
• Superior interpretive and problem-solving skills and demonstrated pragmatic approach to ensure limited resources are directed appropriately
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Ability to influence and create alignment at senior levels across multiple products, clients, geographies and competing priorities.
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred