Global Controller Technology - Automation Development Group Manager

The Automation Development Group Manager is a role to lead and drive process and functionality automation through planning, solution design, application development/enhancement, in a global multi-year program to reduce enterprise risk.

The role requires partnership with Finance business, FMCR Tech Architecture Lead, FINANCE Risk and Control Partners for both Finance and Technology, 2nd Line of defense of Operational Risk Management (ORM) and Governance which are based globally 

• The incumbent will play a role that has capability to not only revamp technological part of solutions but also add value to business by understanding the methodology and quantitative methods involved.

• Incumbent would require excellent verbal & written communication and interpersonal skills in addition to required technical acumen.

• Incumbent would require excellent verbal & written communication and interpersonal skills in addition to required technical acumen.

Job Background
Finance Services Automation platform (FINSAP) is a global application in Finance Market Control and Risk Technology built for providing low code automation services. The application is built to automate thousands of manual processes that are required to complete as part of daily/month/quarter-end close process. The FINSAP team is the global center for the creation of automation workflows to help reducing enterprise risk and manual efforts and well supported by teams across the globe

What we can offer:

• The opportunity to lead a highly skilled development team that drives key technological development/enhancements

• Lead / contribute towards process efficiencies

• Opportunity and exposure to work with senior stake holders to design and develop solutions for business-critical deliverables

• Gain exposure to all strategic priorities within a business unit and their key success metrics

• Work across diverse set of cross functional and geographically diverse teams

Key Deliverables/ Responsibilities

• Design solution to solve complex business problems and automate complex processes

• Configurable and re-usable workflows development allowing customers to control their processes efficiently. This includes Process Mapping, Task Management, Task Automation and Output Tracking

• Process rationalization to eliminate inefficiencies and duplicate tasks

• Application development to reduce enterprise risk

• Feature development to add more capabilities to an existing digital platform

• Code review – Review developed solutions by development team to ensure best coding practices and Citi guidelines are followed

• Introduce process improvement to achieve efficiency gain in development and overall solution delivery

• Lead and manage team of developers to implement solutions as per required standards and timelines

• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lesser experienced analysts

• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members

Expected Work Experience

• 10+ Years of experience in process rationalization, developing and implementing process automation tools

• Having experience in ETL/data management tools such as KNIME, informatica, Ab initio, Xceptor

• Experience of designing and implementing complex, scalable and re-usable components/workflows

• Ability to guide team in custom solution design and development

• Good working knowledge of relational database and SQL

• Should have good understanding of source code repository & branching model

• Understanding of application build and release process

• Should have good understanding and practical experience in project management methodologies such as SDLC, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall

Soft Skills and Competencies:

• Communication and Presentation - Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with very strong presentation skills

• Independent thinking- ability to work independently with a good experience of working with multiple teams across different geographies

• Flexibility- Candidate should be flexible and open to work to interact with global partners/teams or as per project demand

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.

• Focused on driving quality every time and demonstrates highest attention to detail

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