Structurer, Director

Citi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretionary annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Citi London is seeking a Director-level candidate to lead automated pricing, structuring, and lifecycle management for multi-asset equity derivatives. You will drive platform automation and digital transformation at the frontier of quantitative development in a fast-paced, front-office environment.

You will collaborate with Sales, Trading, Quantitative Strategy, and Technology to deliver scalable, compliant solutions, with a hybrid work model and a competitive base salary.

Qualifications

• Extensive equity derivatives structuring experience in front-office or trading roles.
• Hands-on pricing, hedging and marketing of vanilla and exotic derivatives to institutions.
• Deep multi-asset product knowledge and financial engineering fluency.
• Advanced programming with Python and VBA/Excel for prototyping and analytics.
• Experience with Agile delivery, PRD authoring, and cross-functional technology projects.
• Strong understanding of pricing models, risk management and Greeks in live trading.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy automated structuring platforms with real-time pricing and execution.
• Engineer execution workflows for structured products across multiple assets.
• Lead modernization of quantitative infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery and translate requirements into specs.
• Monitor advances in ML, automation, and platform connectivity for differentiation.
• Oversee post-trade lifecycle supervision and client communications to reduce risk.

Skills

Equity derivatives

Front-office structuring

Python programming

VBA/Excel prototyping

C++ / SQL knowledge

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Quantitative analytics

Tools

NumPy/Pandas/SciPy

FastAPI/Flask

C++

SQL

Job description

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. Citi's Markets business is one of the world's leading franchises in fixed income, currencies, commodities, equities, and prime finance. We connect institutional clients to deep liquidity, sophisticated risk management solutions, and market-leading execution capabilities across developed and emerging markets. Our equities platform spans cash equities, equity derivatives, convertibles, ETFs, and prime financing, supported by a global network of experienced traders, sales professionals, and research analysts.

This is a high-impact Director-level role at the forefront of Citi's equities structuring evolution, with a strategic focus on platform automation and digital transformation. You will lead the design, development, and implementation of automated pricing, structuring, execution and lifecycle management platforms for multi-asset equity derivatives products, directly shaping how Citi delivers innovative, scalable solutions to institutional and wealth clients globally. This position uniquely combines deep financial engineering expertise with hands-on quantitative development capabilities, enabling you to drive meaningful change in a fast-paced, front-office environment. Working at the intersection of Sales, Trading, Quantitative Strategy, and Technology, you will be instrumental in accelerating product innovation, reducing time-to-market, and enhancing operational efficiency across the franchise. Whatever the opportunity, our people bring expertise, insight and an honest desire to help one another. So every new product or market creates new possibilities. And every conversation sparks an idea that could redefine the future.

Primary Responsibilities of the Role

• Architect and deploy automated structuring platforms and tools, designing scalable, API-driven systems that enable real-time pricing, "what-if" scenario analysis, and straight-through trade execution for equity derivatives products including autocallables, reverse convertibles, barrier options, variance swaps, and bespoke multi-asset payoffs
• Engineer complex execution and bookbuilding workflows for structured products, leading the full execution lifecycle from initial quote to booking
• Drive quantitative infrastructure modernization, collaborating closely with Quantitative Strategy and Technology teams to integrate Citi's proprietary quant libraries, leverage algorithmic differentiation for high-performance Greeks computation, and transition legacy pricing engines into distributed, cloud-native architectures
• Lead cross-functional product delivery and stakeholder alignment, gathering detailed requirements from Sales, Trading, and Operations, translating them into technical specifications, and managing agile delivery workflows to ensure robust, scalable, and compliant solutions meet business timelines and regulatory standards
• Monitor emerging technology and quantitative developments, staying abreast of advances in machine learning applications, automated workflow orchestration, multi-issuer platform connectivity, and derivatives modeling to proactively identify opportunities for platform upgrades and competitive differentiation
• Help coordinate the supervision and digitalization of post-trade lifecycle operations and exceptional events, overseeing barrier monitoring, coupon fixings, corporate action adjustments, and client communication protocols to ensure seamless ongoing product support, minimize operational risk, and maintain client trust

What We Need from You

• Extensive equity derivatives structuring experience, in a front-office structuring, quantitative analytics, or trading role within a tier-one investment bank, with proven expertise in pricing, hedging, and marketing vanilla and exotic equity derivatives to institutional or wealth clients
• Deep multi-asset product knowledge and financial engineering fluency, including hands-on experience with structured product payoffs (autocallables, reverse convertibles, worst-of baskets, capital-protected notes, QIS strategies), volatility surface modeling (SABR, local volatility, jump-diffusion), and cross-asset correlation mechanics across equities, rates, FX, and commodities
• Advanced programming and quantitative development skills, with demonstrable proficiency in Python (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, API frameworks such as FastAPI/Flask) and VBA/Excel for rapid prototyping, automation, and analytics; working knowledge of C++, SQL, or other quantitative development languages is highly advantageous for platform integration and high-performance computing initiatives
• Proven track record in platform development and automation, demonstrating direct involvement in building or enhancing pricing engines, workflow automation tools, API integrations, or front-office digital platforms; experience with Agile delivery, PRD authoring, and cross-functional technology project management is essential
• Strong understanding of derivatives pricing models and risk management, including practical application of stochastic calculus, Monte Carlo simulation, finite difference methods, and Greeks sensitivity analysis (Delta, Gamma, Vega, cross-Greeks) in live trading environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication capabilities, with the ability to translate complex quantitative concepts into clear, client-ready narratives for Sales, synthesize technical requirements with Technology teams, and build consensus across Trading, Risk, Legal, and Compliance; experience interfacing directly with institutional asset managers, private banks, or sovereign wealth funds is a strong plus

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 employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.

If you are actively working with clients, have a passion for relationships and want to be part of a successful global franchise – then.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified 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.

Job Family Group: Institutional Trading

Job Family: Structuring

Time Type: Full time

Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.

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