EMEA Head of Production Services - Director

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable 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.

This role is the EMEA head of Production Services for Citi’s Crown Jewel - Treasury and Trade Services (TTS) Payment Technology and involves the following responsibilities:

• Senior Stakeholder management - facing off to cluster heads, payments product EXCO, technology & ops heads

• Production Management for the complex and diverse EMEA clusters - 50 countries encompassing 350 production applications, multiple branches, Critical Business Services and FMIs & Clearing systems.

• Manage the complex Payments Regulatory Environment for UK and CEP legal entities – responsible for ensuring accurate and timely PSD and DORA reporting. 

• Director level senior coverage for EMEA overlapping with NAM and Asia; this will allow us provide global follow the sun senior management capability for payments production management

• Responsible for EMEA rollouts of modernized strategic payment platforms

• Drive stability and resiliency across EMEA payment flows

Additional Responsibilities:

• Establishes strategic plans for function.

• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.

• 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

• Own and lead disaster recovery plans.

• Lead and deliver local staff forums, present global, regional and location news encouraging global collaboration.

• Contribute to define and Implement standard methodologies for the department. Ensure transparency and consistency across teams in the region and globally.

• Ensure team adheres to standard methodologies and process including driving compliance to clockwork, resilience and capacity planning

• Develop positive relationship with the infrastructure & other functional support teams to drive efficiency

• Set measurable / challenging goals for self and team ensuring continuous improvement and self-development of staff

• Ensure development plans are in place for staff

Qualifications:

• Relevant advanced level experience in a leadership role, with extensive experience in business, functional and people management.

• Experience of senior stakeholder management

• Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail

• Process driven approach with an appreciation of industry best practice

• Detailed-oriented, with strong analytical skills

• Develops and maintains effective and positive working relationship with peers, stakeholders and management

• Pro-active, organized, thorough and energetic

• Excellent communicator, presenting to senior management level stakeholders

• Manager of managers in a diverse distributed environment

• Demonstrable track record of impactful organizational improvement

• Demonstrable senior Application Support or Project Management experience relating to distributed teams and managing managers

• Drive and determination: Demonstrates self-motivation and drive and shows determination to achieve goals

• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams

• Ability to plan and organize workload

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholders

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree/ Master’s degree preferred and managerial experience

What we’ll provide you:

By joining Citi, 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:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• 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 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.

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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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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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