Compliance Business Control Officer

**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.

**Role Overview**:
Serves as a Compliance Business Control Officer for Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM)’s Surveillance and Employee Compliance (SELC) team responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight for a suite of surveillances and employee compliance programs designed to detect behaviors that may violate regulatory rules or internal policies and procedures. When potentially anomalous behavior is detected, the team is responsible for escalating the activity and working collaboratively with partners across the first and second lines of defense to determine the appropriate resolution of the matter, which may include employee discipline.

The ICRM Global SELC platform encompasses a number of surveillance related portfolios including trade surveillance, e-communications and voice surveillance, employee trading, mandatory absence, registrations and licensing, and information barrier surveillance.

**What you'll do**:

- Establish global consistency standards across procedures including the structure, definition of the surveillance scenarios, citations to applicable rules/regulations/policies, reference materials, rationale for alert disposition, etc.
- Create and maintain a central repository of EUCs that will include an assessment of whether current process is consistent across the Surveillance program.
- Create standards (minimum requirements) for implementation of a central repository (e.g., SharePoint site, Share Drive) for documentations across the portfolios and regions.
- Any additional processes determined to be applicable across the Surveillance program.
- Gathering, reviewing, investigating and analyzing trade data as well as responding to regulatory inquiries from each of the major regulatory bodies (e.g. FINRA, SEC, CFTC). The response process includes compiling all requested documentation, analyzing the results to identify potential issues, escalating potential risk issues to the appropriate coverage areas and providing input on potential corrective action plans designed to address issues that are identified.
- Participating in ad-hoc requests, special projects and regulatory exams directed by other organizations within the compliance or legal departments.
- Other responsibilities include: overseeing the monitoring to adherence to ICRM’s Risk Policies and relevant procedures; preparing, editing and maintaining ICRM program related materials; interacting and working with other areas within Citi, as necessary; and keeping abreast of regulatory changes, new regulations and internal policy changes in order to further identify new key risk areas.
- Additional duties as assigned.

**What we'll need from you**:

- Knowledge of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies
- A general understanding of securities trading and corresponding regulations with proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects
- Excellent research and analytical skills in addition to a technical aptitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and with people at all levels of the organization
- Advanced project management and organizational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time
- Ability to both work collaboratively and independently; ability to navigate a complex organization
- Advanced analytical skills
- Demonstrated knowledge in area of focus

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree; experience in a financial services firm, regulatory organization, or legal/consulting firm, or a combination thereof, Advanced degree preferred.

**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 ev