Markets Fixed Income Asia Legal - Vice President (Hybrid)

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Citi’s Global Legal Affairs and Compliance (GLAC) empowers and protects Citi by providing legal, compliance, investigative, and security services to our firm. We manage compliance risk, provide legal analysis and advice, protect Citi’s people and businesses, advocate for legal and regulatory outcomes that benefit our firm and our clients, and ultimately promote behavior that is consistent with Citi’s mission and culture.

About the Markets Legal Function:

The Markets Legal function supports all of Citi's Global Markets businesses as a single, unified department. Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai serve as hubs for Markets Legal teams for the Japan, Asia North & Australia (JANA) and Asia South (AS) clusters.

About the role:

We’re currently looking for a high-caliber professional to join our team as Vice President, Lead Counsel, Markets Fixed Income Asia Legal - Hybrid (Internal Job Title: Lead Counsel 2 - Product - C13) based in Singapore.

This individual will join the Markets Fixed Income Asia Legal team (the "team”), which has team members spread across Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai. The team is a specialized product legal team which provides legal advisory and documentation support across a comprehensive range of asset classes, service types and dealing channels and the candidate is expected to participate in Asia-wide legal coverage for various asset class products for the Markets business. Asset classes covered by the team include, but are not limited to, those transacted by the sales and trading desks for foreign exchange, interest rates, credit, securitization and real estate financing and markets treasury businesses. Product wrappers typically include, but are not limited to, over-the-counter derivatives, bonds, balance sheet structured notes, special purpose vehicle repack notes, structured loans, fixed income repos, securitization based loans, real-estate backed loans and fixed income securities trading and lending arrangements, amongst others.

This individual will report directly to a senior member of the Markets Fixed Income Asia Legal team and be expected to cover all the requirements of the team including providing advice on legal and regulatory matters, litigation management and regulatory/policy interpretation. Day-to-day functions will involve transactional and advisory work, documentation, business development and participation in industry-based initiatives.

In this role, you will be:

• Assisting the various Markets and sales and trading businesses around product structuring for large episodic trades and advising on flow trades.

• Advising on and managing multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements and client document negotiations.

• Managing and prioritizing key jurisdictions for the business.

• Managing and prioritizing key clients with multiple Citi touch points which may include crypto-currency and digital-related matters.

• Assisting on bank programs and structures which may incorporate environmental sustainability elements.

• Advising on product development and structures addressing capital adequacy and risk-weighted asset requirements.

• Actively fulfilling the One-Citi ethos by identifying and overcoming boundaries and working collaboratively with other Citi members.

As a successful candidate, you would ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• 8 years of relevant work experience.

• Relevant experience in a law firm or financial institution.

• Rates, Markets Treasury, Foreign Exchange and Credit derivatives product knowledge and financial regulatory experience (in particular, familiarity with Singapore, Hong Kong, China and/or India regulatory requirements) would be an advantage.

• Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

• Ability to engage with and manage senior business management representatives.

• A strong team player who is confident, possesses initiative and the ability to prioritize, multi-task and work under pressure.

• An eye for broader franchise issues and the ability to assess issues and their risks against the wider regulatory and compliance framework that Citi operates within.

• Ability to work independently and interact with people of all levels and across regions.

• Education Level: LLB or JD.

Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future.

For instance:

• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.

• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.

• We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work. In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world.

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Job Family Group:

Legal

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Job Family:

Legal - Product

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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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