Foreign Exchange – Application Support Senior Analyst (Hybrid)

Job Id: 23667250

Citi Overview

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

A critical enabler of Citi’s mission to enable growth and economic progress is technology. Our teams are creating innovations used across the globe – we’re changing the way people bank and how the world does business.

Why Citi? Join a Global Bank that believes in its talent

Due to significant and continued investment, Citi’s technology team is growing. We’re looking for talented, driven individuals to help build the future of global banking. At Citi, you’ll have the chance to build the career you want, with the scale, inclusive culture and technology to support you.

You’ll be joining a diverse team of professionals across the world in an environment focused on growth and progress. This is the opportunity to take your career to the next level through the power of Citi’s unmatched globality and vast expertise.

About the Team: ICG Production Management

Our Production Management team provides critical business and technical support to the Institutional Client Group (ICG); working collaboratively to ensure that our platforms and services operate for our clients, whenever they need them. We act as highly skilled and valued partners to our businesses.

Working as part of our Production Management team, you will help deliver a world class client service and experience, by applying engineering, innovation, learning and risk management across our systems and user environments. We interact with a diverse range of people each day, collaborating to solve problems as well as to anticipate and remove them before they occur. At Citi we look to raise the bar of operational excellence by using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to implement continuous improvement across key areas like latency, availability, performance, and capacity. We welcome candidates with SRE mindsets and experience who are keen to promote the adoption of SRE culture at Citi.

Citi’s distinct global network of people, data and relationships creates a mindset that allows us to identify opportunities, manage risks and connect dots for our clients in ways that others cannot. Our people really do make all the difference in our success. We’re a forward-thinking team. We’re looking for ambitious, capable professionals who thrive on collaboration and want to improve how things are done. In return, we offer rewarding work in a supportive environment, clear opportunities for progression and exciting company benefits.

Role Overview

As an eFX Application Support Senior Analyst you will play an pivotal role in running and maintaining the production environment for Citi’s franchise critical applications, enabling our traders to confidently service our clients.

Additionally you will play an active role in driving stability and service improvements, developing application knowledge and working with senior business partners across the globe. This will include partnering with our Application Technology Development teams, Infrastructure teams and Business Product Owners.

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a successful candidate to develop a broad range of technical and soft skills, as well as the ability to develop a thorough understanding of Foreign Exchange (FX). You will gain significant experience of the advanced technologies used to run our business regionally and globally, giving you vast exposure to new and existing methodologies and systems.

There will be multiple opportunities for exposure to our firmwide technology network and potential to develop into a role in one of our many growing technology functions throughout Citi. If you can demonstrate an appetite to learn technical concepts, have strong problem solving skills and an ability to build excellent working relationships then we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
• Engages in post implementation analysis to ensure successful system design and functionality.
• Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
• Ensures that storage and archiving procedures are in place and functioning correctly
• Assess risk and impact of production issues and escalate to business and technology management in a timely manner.
• Partners with appropriate development and production support areas to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Formulates and defines scope and objectives for complex application enhancements and problem resolution
• Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
• Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors.
• Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment. Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact.
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
• Perform same day risk reconciliations
• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Maintains application systems that have completed the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts.
• Expected to be able to raise problems to appropriate technology and business teams, while adhering to Service Level Agreements.
• Manages, maintains and supports applications and their operating environments, focusing on stability, quality and functionality against service level expectations.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• The Application Support Senior Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applcations. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness improvements to help us and the business succeed.
• Reviews and develops application contingency planning to ensure availability to users.
• Identifies ways to maximize the potential of the applications used
• Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years experience in an Application Support role.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholde
• Good all-round technical skills
• Effective written and verbal communications including ability to explain technical issues in simple terms that non-IT staff can understand.
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization
• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Issue tracking and reporting using tools
• Ability to plan and organize workload
• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.
• Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn.

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Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Support

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Irving Texas United States

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Primary Location Salary Range:

$93,200.00 - $139,800.00

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