Global Equities MO In Business Risk and Control Head

About the role

The In-Business Risk & Control (IBRC) function within Equities Middle Office provides centralised risk oversight, control governance, and initiative coordination across the Equities Operations landscape. The team partners with ECO, ORM, and broader Markets Operations stakeholders to ensure robust control frameworks, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance the In-Business Risk & Control Governance framework and virtual IBRC Team across Equities Middle Office (Equities Cash, Equities Derivatives, Syndicates, Prime Finance, Stock Loan, Delta One, and OTC Confirmations), ensuring standardised governance over attestations, corporate hygiene, risk updates, commentary, audit engagement, working groups, and central initiatives
• Partner with ECO and ORM Teams across Equities to ensure consistent risk oversight and control effectiveness
• Design, develop, and maintain Key Risk Indicator (KRI) dashboards to proactively identify emerging risks, control weaknesses, and trends across Equities Middle Office operations, monitoring outputs and driving timely escalation where thresholds are breached
• Oversee third-party and vendor risk governance for Equities Middle Office, ensuring appropriate due diligence, ongoing monitoring, performance oversight, and independent validation of vendor-generated outputs
• Represent Equities Middle Office in senior working groups across Markets and Operations, contributing to governance forums and cross-functional risk committees
• Cook up end-to-end attestation processes across all Equities Middle Office desks, including sign-off tracking, timeliness monitoring, and completeness assurance
• Manage access entitlement governance, records management, regulatory reporting oversight, and other control-related activities as required by the evolving risk landscape
• Take ownership of risk and control initiatives as they arise, providing senior oversight and driving delivery across the Equities Middle Office landscape
• Build and maintain the Equities Middle Office Risk SharePoint hub, ensuring stakeholders have self-service access to current risk information, governance calendars, MI, and policy documentation
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across Equities Middle Office desks, Markets Operations COO, Technology, Compliance, Legal, and Front Office teams, establishing regular communication cadences and ensuring consistent messaging
• Embed a strong Controls and Compliance culture across Equities Middle Office, developing and rolling out training and awareness programmes as required
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities and deadlines, with the flexibility to take on new responsibilities as the risk landscape evolves

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in operations and risk management within the financial industry, with strong knowledge of the Markets business, particularly Equities Operations (Cash, Derivatives, Syndicates, Prime Finance, Stock Loan, Delta One, and/or OTC Confirmations)
• Proven experience in building and maintaining risk and control governance frameworks, including attestation management, MCA oversight, and audit engagement
• Strong understanding of operational risk management principles, including risk identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation
• Experience with Key Risk Indicator (KRI) design, development, and monitoring, including threshold calibration and escalation frameworks
• Experience with third-party and vendor risk management, including due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and performance oversight
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills — the ability to communicate complex risk topics clearly to a wide range of audiences, from desk-level operations through to senior management, and to build trusted relationships across multiple functions is critical for this role
• Experience successfully collaborating with multiple stakeholders across the Markets business, and broader Citi Enterprise Risk Management and Operations, Technology teams
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities and deadlines, with the flexibility to take on new responsibilities as the risk landscape evolves
• Proficiency with SharePoint, MS Office, Tableau/Power BI, and governance/risk management tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

Skills

• Key Risk Indicator (KRI) design, development, and monitoring
• Third-party and vendor risk management
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Collaboration with multiple stakeholders
• Managing multiple concurrent initiatives
• Proficiency with SharePoint, MS Office, Tableau/Power BI, and governance/risk management tools

Benefits

Discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards, medical, dental & vision coverage, 401(k), life, accident, and disability insurance, wellness programs, paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.

Pay

$115,840.00 - $173,760.00

Schedule

Full time