Finance Transformation Office Risk

As part of Citi’s Finance transformation Office (FTO) team, the business risk manager will lead the development of a scalable, best-in-class Risk & Controls function to drive discipline, efficiency and risk reduction by implementing a comprehensive and integrated control framework. FTO is responsible for overseeing gap assessment, design and execution towards Finance target state. Key pillars of the Finance Transformation program include treasury books and records, reporting, stress testing, business planning and data management. The Risk & Controls team will support FTO’s leadership and partner with program managers and lead initiative managers by ensuring that initiatives across the Finance Transformation Office are executed in a well controlled manner.

**The goals of this new Risk & Control team are to**: - Design a robust and evolving control operating model that sets out the framework for control oversight and governance across FTO to ensure proper compliance with firmwide Policies & Standards and support transformation work for Finance. - Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of internal controls to detect and prevent issues, identify key areas of risks and drive remediation. - Strengthen control governance to ensure dissemination and escalation of issues, measure / report performance and communicate around issue themes. - Strengthen partnerships and engagement with key stakeholders across Finance and other control disciplines. - Advise the business on control matters and offer credible challenge. Promote awareness and discipline around controls, improve documentation to make it comprehensive and consistent across the organization.

**Responsibilities**: - Responsible for planning and executing the risk & controls agenda. - Advisory - Support Transformation leads on various control matters (e.g. advise on new issues, review of documentation of deliverables from a control standpoint,, discuss control requirements etc.) - Quality Assurance - Support Transformation leads throughout the program lifecycle to ensure deliverables are executed in a controlled manner. Review substantiation artifacts and challenge effectively closure of an Action Plan Milestones prior to Internal Audit validation Process. - Issue Management - Identify emerging risk and control issues and manage them in a disciplined and consistent way. Control issues and corresponding action plans are systematically captured. Descriptions are reviewed to ensure they are robust and include sustainability measures/period. Partner with issue owner to prevent closure delays or extension. - Oversight & Governance - Ensure effective governance is in place and advise FTO where gaps are identified. Build a robust escalation framework that allows issue themes to be effectively and timely communicated to senior management. - Optimization - Where possible identify opportunities to automate processes to ensure operational risk reduction around to creation of risk & controls materials (incl. dashboards, KRIs/KPIs, scorecards) and dissemination of control updates in dedicated forums / committees. - Compliance - Maintain the organization control operating model to capture evolving requirements. Build process controls are in place to ensure compliance with firmwide control programs (EUCs, Models, Business Continuity, Record Management etc.). - Engagement - Partner with relevant stakeholders across 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd line of defense. Ensure proper dissemination around control program updates and issue themes. Support control discipline and consistency across FTO workstreams.

**Qualifications**: - 6-10 years of relevant business experience in the Financial Services industry, or background in Risk & Controls, Quality Assurance, Compliance or Audit preferred. - Experience with working in a highly regulated environment and setting up controls and governance processes. - Subject Matter Expertise is a must ( treasury books and records, reporting, stress testing, business planning and data management) - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be required. - Strong organizational skills, excellent time management, ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time and prioritize as needed. - Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

**Education**: - Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
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- **Job Family Group**: Risk Management
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- **Job Family**: Business Risk & Controls
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- **Time Type**: Full time
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- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender ident