Regulatory Legal Advisor

The ICG Legal Department provides global legal coverage in relation to Citi’s Institutional Client Group (“**ICG**”) business activities. These activities include corporate and institutional lending, investment banking, capital markets, treasury and trade solutions, private banking and markets and securities related products and services. The ICG Infrastructure and Cross Product Initiatives Legal team (“**ICPI Legal**”) has been recently established to partner alongside the specialist product advisory ICG Legal teams on cross product matters and to provide focused coverage to ICG’s Risk and Controls Department. Amongst other things, the ICPI Legal team’s focus is upon the design and implementation of various ICG-wide regulatory, control and governance driven initiatives and business change projects (including those arising from the Fed/OCC Consent Orders); ICG Legal infrastructure and legal project management; ICG cross product regulatory and thematic legal advice; ICG legal entity booking models; and ICG Legal technology and electronic solutions.

The _Global Cross Product Advisory and Transformation Initiatives_ sub-team within ICPI Legal provides advice in relation to a wide range of regulatory requirements, developments and cross product themes and takes on a core advisory and leadership role in relation to business change projects and other strategic initiatives. Amongst the areas of focus include: the regulatory perimeter, global booking models and legal entity strategy, financial infrastructure (markets and payments), business conduct, public policy and advocacy support, digital innovation and ICG strategic investment activity. Relevant business change projects and initiatives align with the ICG Risk and Controls transformation agenda and ICG cross product business priorities. OCC/Fed Consent Order related activities will also be in scope, from an ICG Legal perspective.

**Responsibilities**:

- Performs varied work requests from multiple sources that may be complex in character and have tight deadlines
- Facilitates the management of a team by providing recommendations on hiring, disciplinary actions, terminations and compensation of the team
- Administrates work streams as a result of global, regional and function plans
- Engages with colleagues horizontally and vertically and across multiple functions both internally within Citi and externally with Outside Counsel and vendors
Works with confidential information with the appropriate care and discretion**Qualifications**:

- 3-5 years of experience
- Experience in banking and finance transactional legal work preferred.
- Knowledge of financial services regulation preferred.
- Experience working in a major bank preferred.
- Strong communication skills (both written and oral), managing stakeholders at senior levels.
- Ability to think laterally to find solutions.
- Good business judgement and commercial aptitude.
- Self-driven and ability to manage and deliver projects.
- The ability to work in an organised and disciplined manner is a key requirement of the job. In addition, the jobholder will have an analytical, legal mind with problem solving skills.
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail.
**Education**:

- A law degree obtained in the United Kingdom, United States or another common law or civil law jurisdiction.

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

The ICPI Legal team requires a motivated individual to support Senior Counsel on key major regulatory, transformational and business change projects globally impacting on the ICG business. Responsibilities are expected to evolve over time having regard for regulatory, commercial and technological developments impacting on ICG, but initial responsibilities are expected to include:

- Supporting Senior Counsel in providing regulatory advice on certain ICG regulatory and business change projects (for example, ICG Risk & Controls, Legal Entity Control Enhancement, or financial and payment infrastructure rule and regulatory changes), the OCC/Fed Consent Order transformation and other cross-product themes within ICG Legal - both within EMEA and globally;
- Liaising and coordinating with ICG Business and product lawyers on behalf of Senior Counsel;
Assisting in the identification and analysis of new regulatory developments and horizon scanning that may have impact across ICG business lines and in conjunction with regional and global colleagues supporting business lines on regulatory change implementation;
- supporting Citi Government & Public Affairs and other stakeholders on advocacy initiatives with industry associations and regulators in respect of regulatory developments, including assisting in the development of responses to consultation papers to regulators and policy-makers, attendance at legal-focused industry association working groups and meetings with regulators, in r