Mumbai Planning Transformation Forecasting Process

Overview of Citi Planning Transformation Initiative
As part of Citi’s Finance Transformation effort, the Planning Initiative is responsible for implementing a defined, integrated, agile, well-controlled, and governed end-to-end integrated forecasting approach that drives effective decision making, informs effective management of the firm’s resources, supports our firm wide culture and strategic priorities, and is fully integrated with strategic risk appetite, risk processes, and capital planning. The Planning Initiative will focus on building Core Forecasting processes to enable central decision making and advancing the existing forecasting capabilities through automation, improved governance and enhanced controls. The activities are focused on all scenarios across the stress continuum, ranging from business as usual business planning to stress environments, including CCAR/DFAST, Recovery and Resolution. The Planning Initiative comprises seven key projects: (i) Process Design and Simplification, (ii) Models, (iii) Governance, (iv) Data, (v) Calculation Controls, (vi) Technology and (vii) Organization and Resourcing.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior results oriented individual to join the Planning Transformation team based in Mumbai and drive transformation efforts for FP&A and Finance globally. The Transformation team is responsible for driving large scale global transformation programs to enhance Citi’s planning and analysis capabilities enabling agile decision making by Citi leadership team. The Transformation programs cover business planning / forecasting process and forecasting models transformation, short term performance management processes, Digital and Data Transformation and Future state Forecasting Infrastructure build / roll-out. The Transformation team works closely with Citi CFO, Global FP&A heads, Business CFOs, Planning Transformation head and Finance Function heads to structure and drive these programs.

**Job summary**:
Citi is looking for a senior leader with well-rounded knowledge and experience in Business & Financial Planning, Re-engineering programs, Process improvement frameworks to drive transformation of Citi’s forecasting processes towards the end state vision. Planning Process Design and Simplification role will be part of the Planning Initiative within the Transformation team.

The current opening is a part of an overall team based out of Mumbai and the individual will assist in developing a robust and integrated quarterly forecasting process along with the enterprise-wide stress tests, and for identifying opportunities for improvements. This role will require partnership with Finance Senior Leaders across Citi to drive end-to-end process transformation of the forward looking forecasting processes, with a focus on established objectives of process quality, efficiency and simplification while addressing needs of all the key internal consumers of the forecasts.

This role will work on initiatives that will provide a unique opportunity to gain a broad understanding of many key facets of Citi’s integrated planning process and stress continuum. Additionally, the individual will need to coordinate further assimilation and understanding of their output with the other project workstreams.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Lead a small sized team in Mumbai to drive Citigroup’s forecasting process transformation including global re-engineering initiative, identification and development of controls and governance and execution of Citigroup’s forecasting processes
Overall program management of the multiple high visibility global process transformation efforts including strong governance / tracking of program execution partnering with key stakeholders
Establish re-engineering program focused on structuring target state global forecasting processes and create capability by hiring specialized resources in Mumbai
Structure and conduct re-engineering workshops with senior stakeholders across Finance to agree on interim and end state process structure to achieve Agile Planning transformation program objectives and related regulatory remediation efforts
Partner with other Agile Planning workstreams (Data, Infrastructure/Tech, Models, Reporting & Analytics, UI/Workflow, etc.) to align efforts and program milestones required to achieve process transformation objectives
Build out process maps to identify bottlenecks and interdependencies and establish explicit performance metrics for tracking finance planning processes
Leverage process design workshops to identify key control points required to ensure process integrity and quality of outcomes
Design process controls in partnership with the sub-process owners and drive automation of controls for all planning processes
Determine and define required controls in line with relevant Citi Risk and control policies
Coordinate with GFT and infrastructure transformation (UI/ workflow, reporting and analytics) and process design teams to auto