Officer, Passive Currency Overlay Supervisor

Citigroup Inc.; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global finance organization based in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an Officer, Passive Currency Overlay Supervisor. This role involves managing daily deliverables, fostering client relationships, and ensuring compliance in fund accounting and currency hedging. Candidates should have a degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting and several years of supervisory experience in a related field. The position promotes a hybrid work environment and professional growth.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in Share Class Hedging or Fund Accounting with at least 2 in a supervisory capacity.
• Strong Fund Accounting experience with knowledge of fund structures, financial instruments.

Responsibilities

• Manage the team and daily/monthly deliverables.
• Develop strong client relationships and manage client SLAs.
• Lead projects to optimize operational efficiency.

Skills

Client relationship management

Excellent communicator

MS Office applications

Project management skills

Education

Degree in Business / Finance / Accounting

Tools

SQL

MS Excel (intermediate - advanced level)

Job description

Overview

At Citi, we connect millions of people across hundreds of cities and countries, providing a broad range of financial services and products to clients to help them meet opportunities and challenges. Citi’s Securities Services supports clients’ business with our global footprint and local expertise.

We’re currently looking for a high-caliber professional to join our team as an Officer, Passive Currency Overlay Supervisor (Hybrid) (Internal Job Title: Fund Accounting Intmd Analyst - C11) based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Working with Citi means access to resources to meet your needs and opportunities to grow, with a focus on work-life balance and professional development.

In this role, you’re expected to

Reporting to the Passive Currency Overlay Manager, the Passive Currency Overlay supervisor is responsible for a range of Passive Currency Overlay hedging activity, ensuring compliance with operating procedures, policies, and guidelines, and the timely completion of accurate FX calculations 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 is to act as succession and coverage for the Passive Currency Overlay Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Management of the team and daily/monthly deliverables
• 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

While all candidates should have strong Fund Accounting experience, additional related industry experience, financial education or maths/statistics background or analytical mindset would be a strong bonus:

• Degree in Business / Finance / Accounting
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in Share Class Hedging or Fund Accounting with at least 2 in a supervisory / managerial capacity

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

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.

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

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