Officer, Fund Accounting Analyst 2

Citigroup Inc.; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an Officer, Passive Currency Overlay Senior Analyst to manage client relationships and ensure compliance in hedging activities. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years in fund accounting, strong communication skills, and a proven track record in a fast-paced environment. This hybrid role offers resources for professional development and well-being.

Benefits

Resources for financial well-being

Work-life balance initiatives

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• 2 to 3 years’ experience in Share Class Hedging or Fund Accounting.
• Strong product knowledge in Fund Accounting and Passive Currency Overlay.
• Hands-on management style with strong leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage strong client relationships and ensure compliance with SLAs.
• Optimize operational efficiency and improve quality.
• Participate in the development and testing of systems enhancements.

Skills

Client relationship management

Excellent communicator

MS Office applications

SQL

Project management

Education

Degree in Business/Finance/Accounting

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Overview

At Citi, we connect millions of people across hundreds of cities and countries every day. We provide a broad range of financial services and products to our clients – whether they be consumers, corporations, governments, or institutions – to help them meet their biggest opportunities and face the world's toughest challenges.

Shape your Career with Citi

Citi’s Securities Services (SS) supports our clients’ business by drawing on the strength of our unmatched global footprint, which provides them with access to local expertise and scalable solutions to support their ambitions.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as an Officer, Passive Currency Overlay Senior Analyst (Hybrid) (Internal Job Title: Fund Accounting Analyst 2 - C10) based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We’ll provide resources to meet your needs and help you manage your financial well-being to plan for your future.

In this role, you’ll be supported by Citi’s programs for physical and mental well-being, learning and development resources, and work-life balance initiatives.

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a family of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Take the next step in your career, apply for this role at Citi today.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’re expected to:

Reporting to the Passive Currency Overlay Manager, the Passive Currency Overlay Senior Analyst is responsible for a range of Passive Currency Overlay hedging activity, ensuring compliance with operating procedures, policies, and guidelines, in the timely completion of accurate FX calculation and orders for execution with the FXLM team. The successful candidate will have a strong background in fund accounting with proven share class hedging knowledge, client management skills, and the ability to ensure all deliverables within the Service Level Agreements are met. They will have a strong “hands on” operational focus and are expected to optimize effectiveness and efficiency in operational delivery. A core expectation of the successful candidate will be to act as succession and coverage for the Passive Currency Overlay Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership, management and development of strong client relationships
• Development of strong relationships with both FX Product & the FXLM Sales team
• Proactively manage client SLAs / KPIs (escalating any issues internally / externally as required).
• Championing a culture of collaboration with cross functional teams to ensure successful delivery of client requirements
• Identify issues and problems in service delivery and carry out necessary remediation, keeping team and manager informed of issue.
• Monitor errors, complaints and near misses. Record as appropriate including compiling incident reporting
• Ensure documentation exists for any client-specific procedures
• Ensuring 100% adherence to procedures, policies and guidelines
• Act as technical and knowledge resource to the team/business unit
• Participate in the development, testing and implementation of systems enhancements and new products
• Lead projects to optimize operational efficiency and improve quality
• Assist with planning and management of all relevant project work
• Set and maintain standards of personal and professional performance / behaviour, ensuring accountability and adherence to company policies and procedures

Qualifications

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

Qualifications:

While all of our candidates would be required to have strong Fund Accounting experience, additional related industry experience, financial education or maths/statistics background or analytical mind-set would be a strong bonus:

• Degree in Business / Finance / Accounting
• 2 to 3 years’ experience in Share Class Hedging or Fund Accounting

Knowledge/Experience:

• Strong (Fund Accounting and Passive Currency Overlay) product knowledge is required. This should include understanding of fund structures, financial instruments, share class hedging methodologies and calculations, regulatory environment and funds industry.
• Hands-on management style with strong leadership skills

Skills:

• Client relationship management
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Highly computer literate - MS Office applications, SQL, MS Excel at intermediate - advanced level
• Strong operations background with a proven track record
• Project management skills with the ability to multi-task

Competencies:

• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Strong client focus with an ability to evaluate needs and develop solutions
• Numerical, analytical and problem resolution skills
• Proven ability to lead the introduction of complex change in a challenging environment
• Team player at a senior level - able to articulate own position clearly, based on fact, but sensitive to the positions, needs and requirements of others

Other information

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