Fp&a - Model Governance - C11

**PBWM FP&A - Model Governance - C11**

**Description**

**Job Purpose**:
An excellent opportunity for individuals seeking a career within Citigroup and more specifically within the Finance Division. It is for Transformational role within Citi’s Personal Banking and Wealth Management (PBWM) division, which is to support model governance and model documentation processes. The role will be to support Transformation efforts for North America within Finance working in Mumbai Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Team with the performance of key activities (as described below).

**Job Background/Context**:
Citi is the leading global financial services company. It does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage and wealth management.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Overall model governance - Leverage daily/weekly/monthly reports published by MRM and iMRMS reporting system to monitor model deliverables and create dashboards and status reporting. Coordinate across corporate teams, model risk management teams, transformation teams, and FP&A teams to provide status updates and respond to model governance requests.
- Model Governance activities include:

- Model Inventory tracking - updating inventory tracker with new models and any changes in the status of existing models.
- Highlighting various cut-off and due dates to Model sponsors and coordinating same MRM teams.
- Perform ‘Ongoing Performance Assessments’ - Partner with FP&A teams to complete the ongoing performance assessments for the Business Planning models. These will need to be completed quarterly for high risk models, semi-annually for medium risk models, and annually for low risk models.
- Annual Model Review - Partner with the FP&A teams to complete the annual model review documentation for each business planning model
- Support model documentation across model life cycle for various BAU and new model deliverables as outlined in the bullets below. Submit documentation in approved MRM templates into the iMRMS system and work with MRM to ensure all questions are answered and the documentation is approved by the deadline in iMRMS.
- Model limitation remediation - Partner with the FP&A teams to document compensating controls for any model limitation opened by MRM. Examples of limitation themes are clarifying the model algorithm, providing more detail on model assumptions, providing additional back testing, etc.
- Model Assumptions Addendum documentation - Partner with FP&A teams to provide model assumption documentation for Forecast Workshop models for each model run
- Model change documentation (MCC/MCA) - Partner with FP&A teams to document any necessary model changes through the MCC/MCA MRM process. Example of recent model changes include extending the model forecast horizon and adding new model usages
- Create MDTT/Documentation for new Models for addition of new product or other dimension added into business, coordinate with multiple stakeholders like Model Sponsorer, FP&A team, MRM, transformation teams to make sure if it goes through proper Model documentation process listed and the MDTT is submitted in proper timelines in IMRMs system. Coordinate on any queries pertaining to this.
- Comply with various guidelines, timelines in relation to Models in coordination with various stakeholders and stay updated on any changes and additional requirement pertaining to above and comply on the same
- Periodic self-check and assessment in respect on Model Inventory and due dates, maintain good relationship with stakeholders like MRM, FP&A, FTO, Transformation team and other stakeholders in Onshore and Other locations
- Continuously stay updated on Product, Forecasting Processes and systems /tools which would be helpful in relation of performance of above activities

**Development Value**:

- Opportunity to join one the leading financial Institutions in the world which prides itself on people development and mobility
- The role also provides a great opportunity to build a career within the Finance Division and gain a holistic understanding of the financial forecasting processes and systems within Consumer/Personal Banking business.
- Interaction with people at varied levels and from different areas of the organization i.e. finance, business, Corporate etc.
- Opportunity to work closely with the Senior Management

**Qualifications**

**Knowledge/Experience**:

- Minimum 5-8 years of experience in FP&A with good understanding of FP&A processes and management reporting
- Transformation or Project management experience in Banking/Financial services would be added advantage
- Professional degree equivalent to CA/MBA/BMS would be preferable
- Strong presentation skill with hands on experience using MS Office (PowerPoint and Excel)
- Knowledge with financial foreca