Co-Head of South Africa Cash Equities
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Citigroup
Job Description
The role is for an Equities Salesperson responsible for distributing Citi research and ideas on South African equities as well as capital market transactions to clients domestically and internationally.
Responsibilities:
- Be the lead on distributing Citi’s South African equities product to institutional clients based in South Africa and globally
- Work closely with research to ensure optimal impact of research product
- Distribute and originate block transactions
- Work closely with our D1 and Derivatives desks on idea generation and execution
- Lead strong governance and controls
- Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, Finance in order to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure
- Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics
- Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions; demonstrating proper consideration for the firm’s reputation
- Be familiar with and adhere to Citi’s Code of Conduct and the Plan of Supervision for Global Markets and Securities Services
- Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role which will be communicated to you
- Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe
Recommended Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Experience in a client-facing role working with the buy-side community
- Sales experience at a financial services organization
- Proven interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Broad client relationships preferred
- Must have or be able to obtain required licenses including Series 3, 7, 55 and 63
Education:
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree preferred in business or related field
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 checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.
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Job Family Group:
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Job Family:
Investor Sales------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
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