This is a critical skill set to have as I am a conduit between what happens in the country and the global teams. I get to work with people from all across the globe in diverse teams. How has working at a large global bank helped to develop your career?īeing in a large global organisation has given me the skills to manage people from different backgrounds. Says Ms Chan: "At the end of the day, we focus a lot on diversity of perspectives because as a global bank we realise that there's global talent everywhere and we want to make sure that voices are heard."Īsia-Pacific chief information security officer Rohit Arora, who has been at Citi for 14 years, shares how inclusion and global diversity help employees realise their potential. Last September, Citi's CEO, Ms Jane Fraser from Scotland, made history as the first woman to run a major Wall Street bank. The course, which aims to build leadership skills among the bank's high-performing women directors and managing directors, included talks by speakers from top universities on working styles and how women can succeed at work. In 2013, Ms Chan and Ms Gay flew to New York for a three-day Citi Women's Leadership Development Programme. These are areas where the representation of women has typically been more challenging, it says. It aims to achieve at least 50 per cent representation of women in its annual summer analyst intake for its investment banking and markets and securities services businesses. Last year, a global report of 468 companies by management consultancy Oliver Wyman found that the percentage of women in leadership roles in finance hovered around 20 per cent.Ĭiti is looking to change that: It recently launched an Early ID Women's Leadership Programme in Asia-Pacific to develop a pipeline of potential women bankers. Gender diversity has historically been poor at banks and in the financial sector, particularly at the management level. Ms Chan adds that there is a "very deliberate" attempt in the bank to ensure women are given opportunities to move up in the organisation at all stages of their careers, from vice-president to managing director. Several senior leaders in corporations and the Government hail from the financial institution, Ms Gay explains. The two Singaporean womens' career growth is a testament to Citi's reputation as the "university of banks".
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