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The banker will be a member of the Banking, Capital Markets & Advisory (BCMA) Public Sector team. The role is to coordinate and lead sovereign diagnostics, ratings and solution advisory for public sector clients, and involves working closely with senior bankers to manage the planning, analysis, client engagement and communications. This is done in partnership with bankers in other relevant business lines. The overall objective of this role is to deepen client relationships and drive revenue by cross selling the Citi platform while efficiently deploying the firm's capital and evaluating and managing risk.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Senior Bankers to provide overall relationship management support for public sector clients
• Lead the day to day sovereign advisory analysis and related activities in the EMEA region
• Responsible for evaluating public filings, research reports, operations, business plans, and financial forecasts to produce strategic and financial analyses
• Responsible for staying abreast of market and industry trends, “best practices” and the competitive landscape
• Work in partnership with the full range of product businesses and country geographies within Citi
• Support country and industry bankers in cross-selling full spectrum of products and services by identifying customer needs to generate revenue

Qualifications:

• Prior experience can include any of the following : Rating Agencies in sovereign related analytics, working in the public sector in a financial analysis and planning role, Banking, Fixed Income Emerging Markets Debt (either research, sell/buy side), working for a multilateral agency or international financial institution (e.g. the IMF, World Bank, Central Bank).
• A preference is expressed for candidates with ratings agency experience with sovereign emerging markets.
• Strong understanding of global macroeconomic and policy trends, geopolitics, economic development and public finance challenges in Emerging Markets and an understanding of sovereign and public sector agendas
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to employ quantitative macroeconomic modelling and research tools
• Strong planning, negotiation, organizational and analytical skills
• Experience with large public sector and corporate clients, capital markets products
• Flexibility with work schedule (may work across different time zones)
• Second language preferred, with relevance for EMEA region and with a preference for French

Education:

• Bachelor level degree, with quantitative background and thorough understanding of Economics or Public Policy studies.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Function Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

• Honesty, integrity and reputation

• Financial soundness

• Competence and capability

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.