Vice President, Oracle EBS R12 Functional Program Manager for AP Module

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Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

At Citi, we get to connect millions of people across hundreds of cities and countries every day.  And we've been doing it for more than 200 years.  We do this through our unparalleled global network.  We provide a broad range of financial services and products to our clients – whether they be consumers, corporations, governments or institutions – to help them meet their biggest opportunities and face the world's toughest challenges.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Vice President, Operations Core Project Lead Analyst C13 based in Chennai, India.  Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future.  For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.

• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.

• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.

• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.

• We have a variety of programs that help employees balance their work and life, including generous paid time off packages.

We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work. In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world. The Project Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

The Apps Support Senior Manager accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance review, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.

In this role, you’re expected to

• Be responsible for accomplishing results through individual performance, management of a team or department in an effort to provide
  operations support services in coordination with the Operations – Core team

• Manage one or more apps support teams. Identify opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity

• Be the overall objective of this role is to ensure the seamless delivery of operations support services in alignment with Citi operations support infrastructure and processes

• Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.

• Work with Cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction. Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and
  build competent teams.

• Collaborate with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.

• Provide technical oversight across systems and applications; leverage skills across multiple apps support areas.

• Provide a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, working closely as a trusted partner for senior business heads.

• Provide guidance on feedback reviews with development managers, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, particularly long-term strategic fixes.

• Perform controlled resolution of incidents and problems including prioritization and escalation to relevant groups when appropriate, root cause analysis of all problems with follow-through to resolution.

• Consult with the primary clients of the application in conjunction with development managers in order to understand the strategic objectives of users.

• Require awareness of audit and compliance related issues.

• Contribute to formulation of strategies for apps support and other functional areas.

• Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover and resiliency

• Handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.

• Be responsible for delivery of end results and shares responsibility for budget management which directly impacts the apps support area; accountable for resource planning.

• Manage customer satisfaction requirements of operational procedures to achieve a suitable outcome for all stakeholders

• Exhibit sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information with inherent confidence with operations and technology partners on a regional or global basis.

• Focus on people development, evaluating subordinates' performance and making decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions and deputize for the regional support manager.

• Perform other duties and functions as assigned

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure

• 10-14 years’ experience in a P2P Application development

• Experience in Oracle EBS 12X Experience in handling Oracle P2P functional support for a large enterprise Expertise in Oracle EBS 12X AP, GL, FA, PR/PO is REQUIRED.

• Exposure to Taxation and all Tax related set ups in Oracle EBS is REQUIRED

• Experience with people management Highly assertive communications skills, commanding personality.

• Ability to engage a large audience and lead the discussion with clear, articulate, and highly assertive communication. Must show confidence in all communications Experience with application support would be an added advantage Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams Ability to plan and organize workload Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a family of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe.

At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Take the next step in your career, apply for this role at Citi today

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Job Family Group:

Operations - Core

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Job Family:

Operations Project Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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