Business Risk & Control Sr. Lead (C14) - SVP

The Global Financial Controls (GFC) team is strategically placed within the Controller’s Chief Administrative Office under Finance.

This role will drive Process Deep Dives and Audit / Exam management and will closely work with Citi Controllers Team, All three Lines of Defense (LOD) and other compliance teams. Requires a strategic professional who closely follows latest trends in own field and adapts them for application within own job and the wider team.

​Key Responsibilities:

As part of GFC Americas Audit and Exam Management Team, responsible for:

• Work as an advisor for the Controllership on various Risk & Control aspects, provide expert opinion and feedback.
• Drive process reviews across different Finance Controllerships, including developing review program to ensure policies, procedures and controls are adequate and effectively implemented to ensure risks are mitigated.
• Giving independent and objective assessments of the health of control environment and internal controls
• Engage with Senior stakeholders on the health of the Risk & Control environment, advise and support on formulating the actions mitigate the risks, key control deficiencies, analyze root cause.
• Propose recommendations to enhance control and operational efficiency, identifying & recommend other areas of improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the end-to-end process to identify the risk and management strategies.  
• Accountable for timely delivery of the review programs for the process deep dives.
• Engage with Internal Audits Teams to support / develop in planning and finalizing Audit Entities, Audit Periods and Scope.
• Accountable to planning for the Audit Reviews in preparation of the audits, execution of reviews and recommendation of areas for action / improvement.
• Responsible for managing multiple audits at the same time, work as an escalation point for Internal Audit team, conduct periodic meetings with Internal Audit and assesses any possible issues.
• Responsible for continues engagement with the Controllers Team (auditees) to set up a structure for upcoming audits, including clear expectations, TATs on deliverables and periodic reporting.
• Work with Audit Team and Controllers to finalize the RCM, ensuring its factually correct and listed controls are within the audit scope.
• Accountable for managing the audit requests, ensuring they are met on timely and completely, timely heads up for Audit teams for any delays and escalations to senior stakeholders in controllership for any delays.
• Partner Audit Teams and Controllers to audit issues which have a clear actionable plan and identify owners.

Leadership:

• Demonstrate effective leadership by continuous guidance, support to the wider GFC Audit and Exam management team.
• Responsible for review of deliverables / issues before they are finally submitted ensuring they are factually accurate; issues are clearly articulated along with impact.
• Drive the inclusion culture within the team and lead by example.
• Build a high-performance team by coaching, supporting and guide ding the team.
• Feedback is key for any person to grow and develop, this role would be required to provide constructive feedback to the team either immediate team or functional reporting for a project.

Qualifications:

• CPA / CA/ CIMA or any other equivalent master’s degree
• 15+ years relevant working experience in Audit, Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Management, or related field
• Prior banking Experience would be plus.

• Excellent communication skills are must to negotiate with senior stake holders.
• Developed Inter-personal skills are required to guide, influence, and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas.

• Advanced English

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