Financial Planning & Analysis- GPO | Governance- C12 - Assistant Vice President - Mumbai - Hybrid

Job Purpose

An excellent opportunity for results-oriented individuals seeking a career within Citigroup, and more specifically within the Finance Division. The purpose of the role will be to support the Global Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization within Finance with the performance of key activities as described below to drive strong strengthen governance, risk, and controls for FP&A processes globally.

Job Background / Context

Citi is the leading global financial services company with some 200 million customer accounts. It does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage and wealth management. 

Global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is a business advisory group which produces and leverages forward looking trends and tools to assess business performance, helps the firm optimize resource allocation and supports Citi’s CFO, CEO, Senior Management and Board of Directors in strategic decision making. Core FP&A processes include: Weekly Financial Update (WFU) / Risks & Opportunities (R&O); Quarterly Outlook; Quarterly Multi-Year Multi-Scenario Forecast (QMMF); Quarterly CEO Business Reviews; Annual CCAR; and Annual Strategic and Operating Plan for Citigroup and Citibank, N.A.

The Global F&A Risk & Controls (R&C) Team’s objective is to establish and enhance governance, risk and controls processes that improve effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of the control environment around FP&A forecasting, planning, reporting, and advisory processes in alignment to Citi standards and in compliance with U.S. regulatory requirements.​ The team’s remit is inclusive of fulfilling the Finance Risk and Control Manager (FRCM) role and responsibilities for the Global FP&A organizations. The team is located in New York, Mumbai, London and Costa Rica and is organized around the following core pillars of global coverage: (1) Governance; (2) Operational Risk Controls, including Managers Control Assessment (MCA), (3) Compliance Risk Controls, (4) Models & EUC Oversight, (5) Issue Management & Reporting, and (6) External Engagement, as well as cross-team coordination/administration and jurisdiction specific R&C coverage for Mumbai and Costa Rica Analytical Centers.

This position is aligned to the Governance, External Engagement, Reporting and Issue Management pillars, as analyst supporting the following core processes for FP&A globally: Policy Governance, Process Governance, External Engagement, Reporting and Issue Management.

Responsibilities:

Policy Governance, Process Governance, External Engagement, Reporting and Issue Management

Policy Governance

• Maintaining and managing inventory of FP&A Policies, Procedures, and local Standard Operating Procedure/guidance documents, including review/approval/dispensation.

• Policy contact/owner-delegate for Strategic & Financial Planning Policy and child Procedures and QMMF Procedure

• Represent FP&A in Citi-wide Policy Pre-Vetting, Finance Policy Document Approval Group; incl. Subject Matter Expertise for FP&A adherence to Citi Policy governance

Process Governance

• Execute monitoring/quality checks on controls across FP&A process: QMMF, Plan, Quarterly Outlook, WFU, Quarterly Business Review and Material Report

• Develop and maintain guidance/minimum standards for FP&A teams to adhere to policies/procedures

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External Engagement

• Coordinate exams, audits, and monitoring of FP&A processes by regulators, Internal Audit, and External Audit

• Coordinate review/challenges by Second Line of Defense

• Coordinate Annual CCAR workstream Self-assessment

• Serve as liaisons to KPMG and SOX team for matters related to FP&A processes

Reporting

• Manage FP&A Risk & Control (R&C) Scorecard performance

• Manage FP&A R&C Reporting 

Issue Management

• Manage end-to-end Issue Management (IM) process and lifecycle guidance (incl. driving positive scorecard outcomes for FP&A)

• Ensure compliance with Citi Finance IM Requirements

• Deliver Issue program management and reporting

Qualifications

Knowledge/Experience

• 7 - 12 years in a control/risk management experience in regulated financial services industry

• ideally a recently qualified Chartered Accountant with audit experience in the financial services industry

• Strong knowledge and experience of internal control principles

• Experience with creating, reviewing and driving implementation of action plans to be executed by the business unit, involving other supporting units as needed

• Excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills to interface with all levels of management and across businesses and functions

• Leadership role driving programs in a matrix environment and driving agreement between multiple teams on contentious issues

Skills

• The candidate will need to be a self-starter with a focus on timely and accurate delivery

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities

• Flexibility to adapt to changing demands and priorities

• Excellent communication and influencing skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Attention to detail is an essential part of the job

• Adaptability, multitasking, team management and strong project management skills

• Interpersonal skills (ability to work with colleagues at all levels across multiple locations)

• Ability to self-motivate and initiate change

• Proficient use of Microsoft Applications (word, excel, power point, etc)

Competencies

• Ability to think strategically and ‘connect the dots’, yet be detail-oriented, and manage multiple competing priorities including emerging risks to deliver solutions in an effective control environment

• Ability to influence key partners and be persuasive while working with cross-functional groups that do not report to them – Business teams, Compliance, Operational Risk Management, Operations and Technology, Finance COO, etc

• Ability to collaborate with and lead others to achieve business objectives; flesh out and drive implementation of processes and procedures in resource constrained environment

• Ability to communicate effectively with senior management 

• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams from different locations globally

Education Level: Graduate Degree or equivalent and relevant Professional qualification (such as Chartered Accountancy)

Primary Location: APAC-IND-MH-Mumbai

Job Category: Finance

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: No                                           

Salary Grade: Assistant Vice President (C12)

Relocation: No

Looking for candidate with Audit experience from Big 4 companies

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