The Global Subsidiaries Group (GSG) is at the helm of Citi’s strategic partnerships with its multinational clients operating in Nigeria across diverse Industry segments, harnessing the power of Citi’s unparalleled global network.
The team positions Citi as the clients’ trusted advisor in the complex country landscape, leveraging a sound understanding of the clients’ objectives, global expertise and extensive local knowledge, to deploy client led solutions, in strong collaboration with the product and operations teams.
Job Background / Purpose
The Global Subsidiaries Group serves a select number of the world’s leading multinational companies
The GSG Head is responsible for the strategic direction of the business, encompassing people management, strategic client management, liaison with other areas of the bank to ensure superior customer service and solution development and implementation, and ensuring adherence to all legal, regulatory, compliance, risk and other policy standards.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and manage the GSG Nigeria team of x16 SAMs and RAs
Formulating and executing coverage strategy/business plan for names managed in the unit including account planning, calling strategy, and customer segmentation.
Awareness of competitive landscape and formulating strategic responses to environmental conditions.
Achieving trusted advisor status through developing close working relationships with customers.
Raise Citi’s profile with key customer seniors by interpreting macro-economic developments and industry trends.
Raise GSG’s profile within Citi by building PAM relationships, key cross-functional and cross-geographic networks.
Strong product knowledge and analytical ability.
Credit senior in team with in-depth knowledge of credit policies and responsible for Credit decisions /approving credits for customer base. Fully accountable for credit spectrum which includes documentation, Target Market identification, due diligence and early problem recognition
Increase share of wallet for the portfolio
Review new business opportunities from a TM and risk/reward perspective
Customer pricing models, Risk, capacity planning
Ensure customer adherence to compliance and KYC policies
Manage customer profitability (Revenue, Expense, COC, EBIT, and NI) and RORC in partnership with Product, Risk and O & T to deliver optimal value to the customer
Understand and effectively manage Citi’s global capacities and complexities, regulatory environment & ensure compliance.
Development Value:
Opportunity to work in a large and complex organization with a demanding customer base, in a challenging and dynamic business environment
Exposure to an open and multicultural working environment
Effective leadership
Multi-functional job scope – interaction across all areas of the bank
Customer focus
Self-direction
Ability to utilize information effectively
Continuous learning and coaching a team to effectively leverage our Global network.
Creating partnerships
Global effectiveness
Ability to influence the speed to market on client solutions
Adapting to the high performing culture of Citi.
Future Career Prospects:
GSG Head in a large country / Cluster
Corporate Bank Head
Lateral move to Country/General Management.
Qualifications
A B.Sc / BA Degree.
A Postgraduate Degree and relevant professional qualifications will be an added advantage.
Functional:
Minimum of 15 years post-graduation experience out of which 10 years must have been in the banking industry and at least 3 years must have been on the Vice President (Deputy General Manager) or its equivalent grade
Experience in at least three major areas of banking
Credit Officer with minimum of $5mm credit approval limit
In-depth understanding of compliance issues, global and local regulatory requirements
Experience in working with and within a matrix organization and cross-functional teams
Customer management and negotiation skills
Ability to recognize and exploit business opportunities
Strong Analytical skills
Must be pro-active, with attention to detail and timeliness in delivery of work output
Information resourcefulness
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Products:
In-depth understanding of banking products – loans / debts (short and long-term), cash management, trade products and finance, FX, interest rate hedging, liquidity management
Market:
In-depth industry knowledge
Proven existing customer relationships
Proven track record of senior relationships and engagements.
Skills:
Strategic thinker and ability to re-align timeously in line with market dictates
Strong Leadership and people management skills essential
Strong Sales / Customer and Business Development skills
Strong communication skills – verbal and written
High standards
Relationship building
Strong influencing & negotiating skills
Planning skills
Decision-making
Process and Controls
Leading effectively in a matrix environment
Deal Origination and Execution Skills.
Thinking Complexities:
Understanding the impact of constant regulatory changes on customers’ businesses and converting them to business opportunities
Ability to optimally coordinate the activities of the different units within the bank in order to deliver good quality service to the customer
Designing strategies and products to enable Citibank stay ahead of competition
Ability to convince customers to adhere to high compliance/ethical standards of Citibank
Problem loan recognition capability
Proven ability to leverage the Citi global network & handle complex, challenging environment
Proven ability to originate and close complex deals/ solutions
Proven ability to act as a financial advisor
Ability to coordinate and manage customer credit & marketing activity