Securities & Derivatives Associate Analyst (Bilingual - Portuguese)(Hybrid)

The Securities & Derivatives Associate Analyst is a developing professional role. This role identifies policy and applies specialty knowledge in monitoring and assessing processes and data. Integrates established disciplinary knowledge within own specialty area with basic understanding of related industry practices. Good understanding of how the team interacts with others in accomplishing the objectives of the area. Develops working knowledge of industry practices and standards. Must be able to exchange information in a concise and logical way as well as be sensitive to audience diversity. Limited but direct impact on the business through the quality of the tasks/services provided. Impact of the job holder is restricted to own team.
Issuer Services Ops Tampa Hub perform the contractual obligation activities for more than 400 contracts for the following countries: Panama, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Puerto Rico.
Our business handles a wide variety of types of contracts. No contract is the same; all are tailor made, according to the needs of the clients.
Each Latin America Country has their own regulations that the candidates must to understand, has a comprehensive knowledge, and be aware of each change of the regulation.
The candidate must have good skills in learning the different systems depending on the country that will be under his/her responsibility.
Keep in mind that the candidate will have a short learning curve, due to the complex and dynamic nature of the business.
Therefore, the candidate must be aware of this challenge.
The candidate have to have the ability to work (monitoring) closely with the team in order to ensure that all the process and activities have dully executed without error and losses. He / she is responsible of the correct execution of the process on the daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• Individual mapped to this job description is responsible for securities transaction processing execution
• Typically related to Securities Clearance Settlement and Derivative Operations
• This may include providing analytic support to traders and support review of derivative products
• Supports an expansive and or diverse array of products services
• Follows established procedures to identify problems related to securities and derivatives settlement that require investigation or research
• Assists in resolving problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents
• Delivers reports to satisfy management requirements, support control activities, and the launch of products services
• Provides assistance in the implementation of process improvements
• Minimizes risk to the bank through increased knowledge of procedural requirements - understands and monitors errors to adhere to audit and control policies. (incl. reconciliation, payment and other processing systems)
• Timely management and escalation of all requests inquiries issues errors, (mostly, but not limited to, post settlement)
• Demonstrates an intermediate level of understanding of products and processes, and of how duties relate integrate with others in the team and closely related teams
• Demonstrates an excellent knowledge of bank related systems
• Utilizes strong communication, interpersonal and diplomacy skills to interact with colleagues and stakeholders, and to exchange potentially complex sensitive information, while being sensitive to audience diversity
• 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.

Contractual Obligations

• Read, analyze, and understand the different contracts for each client in different jurisdictions. According to the lecture of each contract, provide the necessary comments to the checklist provided (Transactional Checklist, Documentation Checklist, Deal Implementation checklist, Termination Checklist, and Accounting guideline).
• Review, input or approve (depending of the role) the operational activities into the Issuer Services Workstation platform according to the transactional Checklist.
• Review, input or approve (depending of the role) the evidence of each task performed into the system or Sharedrive.

• Review, input or approve (depending of the role) the day-to-day activities according to the contractual obligations for each client, using our core system as tickler.
• Perform collateral obligations accordingly to contract rules (calculation, water