Custody Services Applications Support - Senior Vice President

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 4000 people from over 68 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices. We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients. You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast's iconic Titanic Quarter.

Custody services is a business of safekeeping securities holdings on behalf of customers and facilitating clearing and settlement with CSD's and exchanges. Custody services are also extended to provide asset servicing such as CA processing and notification and reclamation of tax. In each market, there are usually a number of local custodian banks that provide custody services, thus giving customers a choice of services and prices. When banks provide custody services in multiple markets through only one service agreement with customers, they are called "global custodian" banks. The overall custody function is also referred to as post trade settlement service. Citi is a licensed custodian bank that provides these services to institutional clients.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates an in depth understanding of how applications support integrate within the overall technology function to achieve objectives; requires a good understanding of the industry.
• Vendor relationship management including oversight for all offshore managed service.
• Improve the service level the team provides to our end users, which includes maximizing operational efficiencies, strengthening incident management, problem management and knowledge sharing practices.
• Guide development teams on application stability and supportability improvements.
• Formulate and implement a framework for managing capacity, throughput and latency.
• Define and implement application on boarding guidelines and standards.
• Work with various team members on coaching them on how to maximize their potential, work better in a highly integrated team environment and focus on bringing out their strengths.
• Drive continued cost reductions and efficiencies across the portfolios supported by means of root cause analysis reviews, knowledge management, performance tuning, and user training.
• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
• Participates in business review meetings, relating technology tools strategies to business requirements.
• Assures adherence to all support process and tool standards and works with management to create new and/or enhance processes to ensure consistency and quality in best practices across the overall support program.
• Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate with external parties.
• Management responsibility for a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• 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 supervising the activity of others and creating accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge of custody business is a plus.
• Senior to advanced level experience in an Apps Support role with commensurate experience in people management.
• Experience of senior stakeholder management.
• Project management with demonstrable results in improving IT services.
• Capacity planning/forecasting exposure is a plus.
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams.
• Ability to plan and organise workload.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholders.

Technical Skills

• SQL Server - SQL, stored procedures.
• Oracle or other RDBMS.
• Knowledge of MQ Series, NDM / IBM Connect Direct, Kafka.
• ITRS, Grafana, AppDynamics.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies.

Education

• Bachelor's/University degree; master's degree preferred.

What we'll provide you

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
• A discretionary annual performance related bonus.
• Private medical care & life insurance.
• Employee assistance programme.
• 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 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.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Support

Time Type: Full time

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