SVP Financial Controller Operating Lead - C14

The Central Controls Oversight Lead role is a senior position within the Controllers Organization that will report to the Controls Management Team within Capital Controllers. The individual will support end to end SACCR controls monitoring and oversight to deliver month-end data accuracy and completeness of the firm and bank’s RWA calculation and reporting. The position will lead the end-to-end controls operating model designed to clear control breaches, assign and support tactical and strategic remediation plans, assess impacts, lead escalations, and conduct exception reporting for senior committees. This will have a high level of visibility within the organization with opportunities to work directly with other Finance and non-Finance functions throughout Citi, including the Businesses, Risk, Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis, as well as Enterprise Technology, & Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Controls Oversight Analysts and direct cross functional Control Owners
• Design and document SA-CCR RWA Controls runbook and exception management process
• Lead end-to-end SA-CCR RWA controls runbook and deliver reporting accuracy and completeness
• Perform control monitoring on a daily and weekly basis in accordance with SA-CCR documentation runbook and document results
• Coordinate issue management, escalations, remediation and reporting of control breaches prior to and during the month-end close cycle
• Facilitate root cause analysis and identify remediation plans
• Report on control breaches and exception utilization and associated impacts
• Present reporting of control status and exceptions in executive committees
• Leverage exception logs at Month-End to pursue intramonth strategic remediation of issues to prevent recurrence
• Continually assess controls effectiveness and suggest improvements
• Support manager controls assessment analysis
• Partner with Regulatory Capital Policy team to ensure that Basel rules are adhered to control exception management
• Work with key business and technology and operations stakeholders to lead the development of process efficiencies and improvement efforts as well as data quality improvement projects.
• Manage activities, including closing the books, preparing appropriate required adjustment entries and consolidating control reporting at the end of each accounting period
• 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

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of extensive experience within the financial services industry and regulatory reporting
• 5+ years managerial experience
• Able to navigate through a large organization to streamline and summarize multiple information points and create repeatable processes to build consistency in presenting information.
• Exceptional communication skills, with ability to synthesize complex concepts, and influence change. 
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and an ability to identify conflicts, discrepancies and other issues and bring together the right team to solution them.
• Strategic mindset, ability to plan ahead to future possibilities and translate them into breakthrough strategies.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tasks in a complex and dynamic and work well as part of a team.
• Audit and controls experience strongly preferred
• Knowledge & understanding of Basel RWA calculations and reporting preferred
• Previous supervisory experience preferred

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree in Finance or Accounting
• Master's degree preferred

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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