Finance Risk

Description:
The Chief Operating Office of Global Finance is responsible for the design and implementation of risk and control frameworks that span the Finance function globally. The Issue Management Quality Assurance Lead will have responsibility for overseeing the active management of a portfolio of issues in remediation across the Finance Function. The Lead, in partnership with of Quality Control analysts, provide first line assurance of the quality and control of issue identification and remediation activities across the issue management lifecycle. This will include all aspects of the lifecycle from identification, planning, monitoring, and remediation and ensure that issue responses, action plans and documentation in each step are held to the highest standard ensuring timely and quality remediation. Issues span all sources - first, second, and third line of defense as well as supervisory agencies.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead first line issues QA across the full lifecycle of a portfolio of issues across the Finance function globally.
- Demonstrate QA rigor which ensure exceptional standards and quality and completeness of issue design and documentation which clearly articulate the key dimensions of the issues, corrective actions and impact on risk mitigation
- Demonstrate effective review and challenge processes to ensure issue opening, monitoring and prevalidation, pre-closure reviews occur and are of high quality including root cause assessment, completion criteria, dependency evaluation, sustainability, risk reduction, action plan quality - Monitor issue remediation status to support early intervention, escalation of emerging risks to and development of course correction / path to green.
- Partner with second and third line functions driving best in class interaction models through the lifecycle
- Establish relationships across Finance functions to maintain to proactively monitor and understand changing priorities and emerging risks which impact issue remediation trajectory - Partner closely with issue owners, governance and control officers (GCOs) and Finance Regulatory Engagement
- Conduct first line issue testing processes and capabilities as part of standardized pre validation processes, extending to self validation of self identified issues

Knowledge/Experience:

- Bachelor's degree, ideally Master's or professional qualification
- 15+ years or relevant experience in financial services industry including Audit, Risk, Operational Risk, Control management, Project Management experience
- Strong and effective leader with comprehensive understanding of audit methodology and regulatory validation and a proven track record driving Regulatory and Internal Audit issues to remediation
- Strong interpersonal and people management skills with prior experience interfacing with Regulators
- Ability to establish trusting relationships which facilitate respectful challenge and collaboration to focus on driving the best outcome for the function.
- **Job Family Group**:
Risk Management
- **Job Family**:
Business Risk & Control
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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