Senior Digital Assets Compliance Officer

About Citi in Dublin

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Shape your career with Citi in Dublin. By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Citi has had a presence in Ireland since 1965, it was one of the first foreign banks to open an office in the country and is the Citibank Europe Plc Headquarters.

Team/Role Overview

The Senior Digital Assets Compliance Officer will serve as a pivotal contributor within the second line of defense, playing a critical role in shaping and implementing the bank’s Digital Assets (DA) compliance and risk governance framework within the Services division. This position demands a comprehensive understanding of emerging digital asset technologies, ICRM regulatory expectations, and robust enterprise risk principles. The successful candidate will be instrumental in ensuring the safe, ethical, and compliant adoption of digital assets across the organization, balancing innovation with prudent compliance and risk management.

What You'll Do

• Digital Assets Compliance Framework & Management: Contribute to the ongoing design, implementation, and enhancement of the Digital Assets Risk Management Framework. This includes credibly challenging the Services business as well as providing feedback on relevant policies, standards, procedures, and controls to align with evolving regulatory expectations and strategically balance innovation with enterprise compliance principles.
• ICRM Oversight & Challenge: Serve as a primary ICRM contact, providing robust second-line compliance and risk oversight, and constructively challenging Digital Assets initiatives, use cases, and emerging technologies from a critical compliance and risk perspective.
• Reporting & Senior Engagement: Support the preparation and presentation of Digital Assets compliance reports to ICRM senior management and relevant committees, actively participating in key senior engagements and regulatory interactions to articulate ICRM's perspective.
• Expert Advisory & Strategic Input: Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Digital Assets within ICRM, providing critical input for risk assessments, audits, and regulatory examinations. Additionally, contribute specialized expertise to Issuer and Investor Services DA initiatives through New Activity Committees (NAC) and various business engagements.
• Cross-Functional Partnership & Compliance Culture: Cultivate strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders across the firm (e.g., Technology, Legal, Audit) to ensure seamless alignment of Digital Assets compliance risk management with broader enterprise objectives. This includes fostering a proactive and accountable compliance culture across relevant business units within Services.
• Regulatory Preparedness & Review: Contribute to the preparation and critical challenge of regulatory materials pertaining to Digital Assets, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and a comprehensive assessment of related compliance and risks to maintain robust regulatory adherence.
• Control Assurance & Review: Conduct thorough reviews and challenge key internal control documents and processes, including Manager's Control Assessment (MCA), Line of Defense Designation Assessments, and Front Line Engagement activities.
• Strategic Forum Representation: Represent ICRM as a delegate or active participant in internal forums, such as the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Center of Excellence, Partnerships Origination Forum, Risk Review Forum, etc.
• Team Strategy & Development Support: Support the definition of the overall P&I ICRM team’s strategy, including contributing to Compliance Independent Assessment (CIA) activities.

What We'll Need From You

• Expertise of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies.
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills.
• Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive.
• Highly motivated, strong attention to detail, team oriented, organized.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions through concise and clear messaging.
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units; ability to navigate a complex organization; to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level.
• Experience in managing regulatory exams and relationships with examiners, auditors, etc.
• Awareness of regulatory requirements including local and US laws, international and industry standard.
• Advanced knowledge in area of focus.
• Related certifications desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree; experience in compliance, legal or other control-related function in the financial services firm, regulatory organization, or legal/consulting firm, or a combination thereof; experience in area of focus; strong working knowledge of function/business/product and the related operations and financial requirements; previous experience managing a diverse staff; Advanced degree a plus.

Benefits and Culture

By joining Citi Dublin, 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 that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Key skills/competency

• Digital Assets
• Compliance Framework
• Risk Management
• Regulatory Oversight
• ICRM
• Financial Services
• Policy Development
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Control Assurance
• Emerging Technologies