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  • Posted: Dec 30, 2021
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    Citibank N.A. Kenya has been operating in Kenya since 1974 and has two branches in Nairobi and Mombasa, serving Corporate and Institutional clients. Citibank Kenya is the regional hub for the Citi East Africa cluster, which covers Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. It's the only solely corporate bank in Kenya. Businesses Citi Kenya is structured around ...
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    Legal Support Specialist for East Africa

    The Paralegal performs relatively complex assignments. Has direct impact on the business by ensuring the quality of the tasks or services provided. Works under little to no direct supervision. May service an expansive and/or diverse array of products/services. Applies working knowledge of technical and professional principles and concepts and in depth knowledge of team objectives. Understands how assigned duties contribute to the work of the team/unit and how the units coordinate their efforts and resources to achieve the objectives of the function. Ensures the quality and service of self and others. May recommend new options to enhance productivity in accordance with guidelines. Requires tact and diplomacy when exchanging complex or sensitive information with others. Is sensitive to audience diversity. Basic knowledge of the organization, the business and its policies required. Typically responsible for resolving basic to moderately complex problems based on practice and precedence. Able to assess applicability of similar experiences and evaluate options under circumstances not covered by procedures.

    Responsibilities:

    • Performs varied work that involves moderate initiative and responsibility, to assist in-house and outside counsels with complex and variable matters
    • Responsible for assisting lawyers and legal professionals in executing legal transactions
    • Prepares basic documents or contracts for review and evaluation by others
    • Handles routine litigation matters with limited settlement authority
    • Engages in communication with business clients
    • Performs legislative/regulatory tracking
    • Performs other legal-related tasks, such as updating matter management database with case specific information and providing documents requested by other legal staff
    • Performs routine legal research and compiles data from such references as digests, encyclopedias, practice manuals or other sources, including on-line resources
    • Performs administrative tasks such as scheduling, calendar management and organizing data and meetings
    • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

    Qualifications:

    • 0-2 years relevant experience
    • Paralegal Certificate from an accredited institution
    • Technical skills (e.g., e-mail systems, Word, Excel, Access, Internet: Lexis/Westlaw)
    • Excellent organizational skills
    • Ability to review and organize numerous related documents

    Education:

    • University degree/ Paralegal Certificate

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

    Principal Accountabilities

    1. Assist to provide a legal/company secretarial budget in line with country timelines;Serve as lead liaison with regulators and other internal/external auditors with respect to deliverables from the legal department;
    2. Assist to file andmanage expenses against budget and in line with Citi Expense Management policy requirements;
    3. Monitor and report deviations/variances in the unit's budget;
    4. Co-ordinate onboarding processes for law firms and relevant vendorsof the department as required from time to time;
    5. Prepare and submit monthly accruals in line with timelines;
    6. Process bills and expenses promptly; maintain accurate record of same;
    7. Provide business support to aid existing and pipeline business initiatives;
    8. Maintain register of external legal opinions;Provide valuable inputs to promote business and operational efficiency;
    9. Assist to compile the list of external counsel for approval, as part of the annual review process of approved external counsel

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    Liquidity Management Services SSA Governance Product Manager - AVP

    Position Objective:

    • Have a holistic understanding of the Liquidity Management Services business and aid in putting together materials relating to business drivers, business performance and understanding movements in these drivers.
    • Execute business strategy to support organic growth targets. The candidate will also be responsible for day-to-day management of control drivers.
    • Deliver the position objectives including Overdraft process management and other Governance related issues.
    • Partner with in-country product managers, in country teams and regional teams to build and maintain strong partnership and ensure full alignment.
    • Collaborate with Operations and Technology to ensure proper delivery of objectives within acceptable standards and re-engineer existing processes to build efficiency.
    • Grow the underlying business drivers – maximizing returns while controlling risk.
    • Share best practices across geographies.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Regular interaction with in-country product and cash teams and acting as subject matter expert across LMS Governance issues.
    • Monthly tracking of Hedges/ LP to ensure that any gaps are immediately identified and corrected through close interaction with the country teams.
    • Work with the LMS cluster head to ensure accuracy of the NRFF model output vis-à-vis revenue numbers shown month on month.
    • Drive the end-to-end LMS assets process including working with the Regional, Product and Banking teams to ensure compliance with the Risk Acceptance Criteria (RAC), address RAC exceptions, weekly reporting, risk systems reconciliation, inactive accounts and address escalated client accounts.
    • Ensure standardization of LMS offerings to minimize process disparities and capability gaps across the entire set of countries in the cluster
    • Assist in preparing monthly reporting metrics for the LMS business
    • Continuous improvement of LMS Governance process, including finding a long-term solution to better manage the interest maintenance process.
    • Continuous monitoring of the LMS Overdrafts to ensure that there are no build-ups, and any significantly adverse movements are captured on an immediate basis, corrected and escalated as appropriate.
    • Lead libor/ RFR migration and ensure LMS adherence to global objectives.
    • Ensure standardization of LMS offerings to minimize process disparities and capability gaps across the entire set of countries in the cluster.
    • Deliver on balance sheet objectives relating to RLAP and ensuring SSA delivers the targeted RLAP score, guiding geographies on improvement of this key LMS metric.
    • Work with in-country teams to ensure full compliance and timely delivery of LMS ARCM roll outs, MCA testing and CAPs.
    • Work as a project manager on 2-3 cluster-wide initiatives across the SSA cluster.
    • Work effectively with SSA cluster head for roll out of related LMS product offerings.
    • Create expertise in client demos on LMS related systems like Interactive Solutions.

    Development Value:

    • Business Management skills.
    • Exposure to all round LMS aspects.
    • Direct exposure to senior management – TTS heads, Regional partners etc.
    • Leadership, Management and Team engagement.

    Knowledge/Experience:

    • Experience in banking with relevant exposure to the Liquidity Management Services business.
    • Good understanding of business drivers.

    Skills:

    • Excellent Analytical and Problem-solving skills.
    • Project Management skills and ability to manage to deadlines.
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
    • Ability to be resilient in closure of objectives and follow through effectively.
    • Excellent presentation skills.

    Competencies:

    • Professional disposition and customer-focused attitude towards both internal and external customers.
    • Ability to work with multiple organizations and stakeholders, including Senior Management.
    • Ability to cope under pressure, multitask and exude high level of personal integrity.
    • Teamwork (given cross functional and multiple geography interaction).
    • Client relationship skills (Given extensive internal/ external client interaction requirement).
    • Organizational Skills (Ability to navigate through the Citi ops/tech/product/sales hierarchies to get the work done).

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