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Legal Support Senior Lead Officer - Senior Vice President

Citigroup

Tampa, FLFull-time$131–196K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$131–196K/yr
Location
Tampa, FL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Legal Support Senior Lead Officer is a senior-level, non-attorney role providing support to Citi’s Legal team. The position oversees legal support activities, regulatory identification, group projects, and process improvements, and serves as a subject matter expert to global partners and senior legal managers. It also contributes to planning initiatives, represents the function in meetings, and may mentor and train junior team members.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Regulatory IdentificationProject ManagementInterpersonal SkillsCommunicationComplex Documentation ManagementLegal Customs and PracticesFinancial Services Industry KnowledgeSpanishPortuguese

Qualifications

10+ Years Relevant Industry ExperienceBachelor's DegreeMaster's DegreeIn-House Legal Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

The Legal Support Senior Lead Officer is a senior level, non-attorney role, responsible for providing legal support to the Citi Legal team. This role requires a pragmatic, proactive professional with thorough understanding of the Citi Legal Team. The overall objective of this role is to provide support to the Legal Team.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for legal support activities related to regulatory identification, identifying regulations applicable to Citi, collaborating across control/support functions, and lines of business.

  • Running group projects and matters of common interest to achieve coordinated and efficient process improvements and legal support solutions.

  • Participates in planning and development initiatives; contributes to business objectives by providing thought leadership using institutional knowledge and knowledge of industry, laws, and regulations.

  • Serves as subject matter expert to global partners, key stakeholders and senior legal managers, by managing day-to-day legal support activities, providing advisory services and thought leadership, escalating as appropriate.

  • Applies comprehensive understanding of concepts and procedures within Legal and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve complex legal issues and transactions, ensuring quality, efficiency and consistency, escalating where appropriate.

  • Represents the supported area or function in meetings and committees, globally and/or regionally with visibility to senior leadership Manages team templates/procedure memos/policies and functions as the first line of inquiry for questions regarding content.

  • Maybe responsible for mentoring and training junior members of the team.

  • 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

  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably with some experience working in an in-house legal role within financial services

  • Proven ability to manage complex documentation with organization and detail

  • Must possess excellent interpersonal and project management skills, as well as the ability to interact and communicate effectively with Senior management

  • Knowledge of legal customs and practices

  • Knowledge and understanding of the financial services industry

Education

  • Bachelors/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Bilingual would be a plus. (Spanish and or Portuguese)


Job Family Group:

Legal


Job Family:

Legal Professionals


Time Type:

Full time


Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States


Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$130,880.00 - $196,320.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.


Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.


Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.


Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Nov 06, 2026


Automated Processing and AI

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

How this job compares

Set against the 413 open Legal Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$131–196K/yr
  • US median$105–142K/yr259 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $164K, is 31% above the US median midpoint ($125K) — in the middle half of Legal Operations salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 413 open Legal Operations jobs across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Legal Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 323 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 105 of the 413 open Legal Operations jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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