Presentations and Creative Designer

Job Purpose: (Presentations & Graphic Designing)

A Presentations & Graphics specialist with 4+ years’ experience, who excels in crafting visually compelling designs for corporate banking, including presentations, marketing materials, and digital assets. Delivers innovative and professional visual solutions to enhance presentations and maintains a cohesive brand image. Proficient in presentation software, the specialist collaborates with teams to convey information effectively. Role would include designing and formatting pitchbook materials using MS Office applications (PPT, Word, and Excel) ensuring specific standards are met and visually impactful designs using various Adobe Graphics Suite applications to create custom templates, covers, illustrations, isometric creations, producing conceptualized artwork and digital assets.

Job Background / Context:

Working as part of the Presentations & Graphics team in a busy 24/7 department that produces pitchbook materials and graphic design. Presentation Design team is a specialist group that provides services to internal clients within Investment Banking and various other clients within Citi.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Assist with the production of pitchbook materials and offers conceptual and visual solutions to enhance client materials.

·       Apply strong presentation design, illustration, and data visualization skills, to interpret complex ideas and present them as simplistic and compelling designs. Produce high-quality design work including:

• PowerPoint presentations in a range of formats (Citi or client templates)

• MS Excel – creation of charts and tables

• Concept and page layout designs

• Formatting Word documents

·       Produce high-quality design work including:

• Isometric creations and illustrations

• Covers and template creations

• Conceptual artworks

• Map Tracing

• Formatting Word documents

·       Work alongside Project Coordinators and/or Creative Project Leads on custom graphics and design projects.

·       Leads design related projects. Collaborate with bankers and partner hubs to understand objectives and translate them into creative design solutions.

·       Should be able to manage multiple projects, adhering to timelines and delivering high-quality design work.

·       Communicate with global clients to understand their requirements and present complex ideas visually. Presentations are frequently created for multiple purposes, so the designer should be able to shift gears and adapt to different requirements.

·       Ensure all materials produced are correctly branded as per Citi standards and advises clients on the use of the Citi brand.

·       Liaise directly with workflow staff and clients to determine deadlines, job instructions and design requirements.

·       Assist with intake coordination, as and when required.

·       Be responsible for quality control of own work, as well as assisting colleagues with QC tasks.

·       Proactively raise creative ideas and emerging trends in line with the business objectives.

Development Value:

• Working with our onsite team and wider global design community, you will be able to develop your visual design skills and learn about all aspects of design.

• Exposure to a diverse group of clients at all levels of the organization.

• Various training opportunities in new media and graphic packages.

Knowledge/Experience:

• 4-5+ years of relevant work experience in presentations and design support within a corporate, service-oriented environment, ideally in a financial institution.

• Must be able to provide a portfolio / sample of latest graphics and creative work.

Skills:

·       Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (i.e., Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat Professional)

·       Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel and Word)

·       Knowledge of external print processes – preferred.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
  Certification in graphics design applications – preferred.

Competencies:

• Excellent attention to detail and focus on quality and accuracy.

• Strong interpersonal, customer service and communication skills (oral and written)

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced high-pressure environment.

• Strong creative vision to develop new design ideas.

• Readiness to follow policies and procedures.

• Flexibility, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new skills and share knowledge with the team.

• Willingness to rotate across shifts. Typical work schedules in Mumbai are between 7am to 1.30am IST, 5 days a week. (Mumbai team works Sun through Sat)

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