What advice would you offer prospective candidates on
transitioning from school to the workplace?
Be ready
to work hard! Don’t hesitate to ask lots of questions and feel
hunger to learn. I believe hard work is close to success, but
please don’t feel intimidated by it.
Make sure you learn something new everyday and show your interest
in your work by ask questions. Believe me it helps yourself to gain
more knowledge, nonetheless also help your supervisors to know that
you have great passions in doing your job. All the best!
If asked about your career at a dinner party, how would
you describe it?
Challenging, demanding but exciting.
In Citi, there are a lot of things to learn. This motivates me to
go work everyday, because there are always new things to explore
going forward.
What about your career excites you the most - gets you
out of bed in the morning?
I would say opportunities
to explore my self and learn new things everyday from my
colleagues. I enjoy working with many experienced and talented
colleagues. Since I joined with Citi, I feel become a better
person. That’s what excites me the most!
How would you describe your team and the people you work
with?
Citi teams are filled with professionals,
experienced, charismatic and hardworking individuals. Every person
contributes to the successfulness of the team, where as a junior in
the bank I enjoyed the supportive environment for me to grow.
What other groups do you liaise with regularly within
the Firm?
I gain significant exposure to interact
with number of different units in the bank from my one-year
experience with Citi. In my current role within GTS team, my
responsibility is to assist the execution of one new product in the
Cash Management team. Consequently, I work closely with Operations
& Technology team and other supporting units (which includes
compliance, legal, finance, etc).
How do you apply your degree to what you're doing
now?
I have my Master degree in Applied Finance and
B.Comm in International Business, which provided me with a solid
foundation of concepts in management. In my current role as
management associate, the educational background I have equipped me
with skills especially in decision making process. In addition, all
presentations and group projects from my educations has provided me
the foundation for team work and good communication skills. This
has helped me to deliver my presentations in meetings and also
making decision related to my responsibilities.
What skills have you found to be the most useful in your
position?
In my current role in GTS, I believe not
only technical skills such as knowledge about Citi’s
products/services which play an important part but also
communications skill, decision making process and analytic
thinking, which each plays its significant roles.