Desk Assistant - Structuring - Citi

eFinancialCareers; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts

Job summary

Citi London is seeking an Equity Structuring Pricing Support professional to join the Markets team. You will partner with Sales and Trading to price vanilla and simple derivatives, ensuring accurate inputs and timely trade booking.

The role emphasizes automation with Python and VBA, advanced Excel skills, and a disciplined control mindset under tight timelines. Hybrid working with a competitive base salary and extensive benefits is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in structuring support or exotic derivatives trade support within a global investment bank.
• Strong understanding of equity derivatives and basic option pricing theory (Black-Scholes, Greeks).
• Proficiency in Excel and VBA with ability to enhance pricing tools and reporting; Python and AI experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Pricing support to Sales: act as first contact for vanilla pricing; use pre-approved templates.
• Pricing quality control: validate inputs and log checks and corrections.
• Trade booking support: assist in booking vanilla and structured trades and verify economics.
• Documentation, tracking, and reporting: maintain logs and provide summaries for London review.

Skills

Pricing support

Excel & VBA

Python

AI experience

Attention to detail

Tools

VBA

Excel

Job description

Job Overview

At Citi Markets, we win together. In a rapidly changing world, our shared vision gives us the clarity, agility and global perspectives we need to shape the future. That's why collaboration plays a central role in how we deliver for clients, develop our people, and grow our business. Our Equity Structuring desk designs and trades a wide range of complex structured equity products - from vanilla structured notes through to highly sophisticated OTC exotic derivatives - for a diverse base of institutional and private clients globally. Whatever the opportunity, our people bring expertise, insight and an honest desire to help one another, and every new product line creates new possibilities.

Primary Responsibilities of the Role

• Pricing Support to Sales: Serve as the first point of contact for junior sales staff requiring assistance with vanilla and straightforward derivative pricing; independently handle standard queries using pre-approved templates and tutorials, while strictly escalating non-vanilla or ambiguous requests to the London team.


• Pricing Quality Control: Cross-check prices produced by or for sales before client communication, validating all key inputs (rates, vols, spots, notionals, tenors, and day count conventions) and maintaining a detailed log of all checks, errors identified, and corrections made.


• Trade Booking Support: Help book vanilla and straightforward structured trades accurately and on time upon trade confirmation; validate trade economics against original term sheets and collaborate with Sales and Trading to ensure smooth trade capture while helping teach junior sales to capture flow comfortably.


• Documentation, Tracking, & Reporting: Diligently follow all how-to guides and step-by-step procedures provided by London; maintain a daily log of pricing requests, booked trades, and issues encountered, producing regular summaries for London review and active participation in structured check-ins.


• Flow Analysis & Inventory Monitoring: Generate detailed trade interest summaries for exotic flow transactions (synthesizing pricing, payoff mechanics, and risk parameters) and monitor secondary note inventory to identify monetization opportunities.


• Process Automation: Collaborate with Technology teams to automate and enhance manual workflows and tactical reporting frameworks using Python and VBA.

What We Need from You

• Relevant experience in a structuring support, exotic derivatives trade support, financial engineering, quantitative middle office, or closely related markets role within a global investment bank.


• Solid understanding of equity derivatives, basic option pricing theory (Black-Scholes, Greeks analysis), and straightforward structured products.


• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and VBA, with the ability to maintain and enhance tactical pricing tools and reporting frameworks; hands-on Python and AI experience is highly preferred.


• Exceptional attention to detail with a disciplined, control-oriented mindset, comfortable working methodically under tight time pressure.


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise clearly and simply with sales, operations, and the London structuring desk.


• A collaborative and diligent mindset, highly comfortable working within a closely supervised, process-driven framework with regular structured check-ins.

What Citi Can Offer You

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)


• A discretional annual performance related bonus


• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance


• Employee Assistance Program


• Pension Plan


• Paid Parental Leave


• Special discounts for