Banking Lending Controller

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Job Overview

Join our expanding Citi Finance Team and make your own progress in a supportive and friendly environment!

Team/Role Overview:

Financial Controllers is the largest department in Finance primarily responsible for controlling daily profit and loss reporting, balance sheet and expenses for all business. Banking covers Investment Banking (Debt, Equity underwriting and M&A) and Corporate Lending products supporting Corporate and Commercial Banking clients. We work closely across functions on a daily basis (Front Desk, Business Management, Risk Management, Operations, and other areas of Finance) and develop a deep understanding of the products offered, along with the associated risks and accounting complexities.

The Product Control Intermediate Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the bank's books and records in coordination with the Finance team. The overall objective of this role is to control and support data integrity and general ledger reconciliation, insight and analysis around Product P&L and balance sheet reporting.

Our Poland office is deeply integrated part of the EMEA regional hub, establishing direct contact with the business and finance areas in the regional center. The role is part of the Banking Product Control team in Poland, within EMEA Finance. The business encompasses both institutional lending and investment banking functions.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the end-to-end Banking Controllers processes, including daily P&L and Balance sheet preparation and related activities. Provide analytical insight around drivers of the financials

• Use effective escalation to ensure issues are highlighted in a timely manner. Focus on recurring issues and drive through enhancement projects and systems fixes

• Support standardization efforts and work on strategic as well as ad-hoc projects to improve Citi’s Product Control system infrastructure and to implement process improvement ideas

• Develop an enquiring and questioning mind-set

• Exploit a collaborative and motivating attitude to join forces with colleagues for excellent results

• Benefit from your organized personality, attention to details and independent working style

• Use your experience and knowledge to drive and contribute to outstanding team performance

• Solve issues under little to no supervision, including complex problems

• Apply in-depth knowledge of industry standards and practices to daily tasks

• Analyze situations and data utilizing data analysis tools and methodologies

• Provide solutions for varied issues that potentially impact the broader business

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup

Skills and Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience

• Bachelor’s degree/University in Finance/Accounting is an advantage but not a must and we are open to other majors

Ideal Background:

• Good command of spoken and written English

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Control Focus

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, data analysis tools would be an advantage (Knime, Power BI, SQL, Python). Training will be provided on other in-house and industry standard systems used in this position.

• Knowledge of or demonstrated interest in financial products is an advantage

• Accounting work experience.

Benefits:

By joining Citi Solutions Center Poland, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed) and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

Private Medical Care Program

Life Insurance Program

Pension Plan contribution (PPE Program)

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave)

Sport Card

Holidays Allowance

Sport and team recreation activities

Special offers and discounts for employees

Access to an array of learning and development resources

A discretional annual performance related bonus

A chance to make a difference with various affinity networks and charity initiatives

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Finance

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Job Family:

Product Control

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Accounting Processes and Financial Controls, Assessment, Constructive Debate, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Management Reporting, Policy and Regulation, Portfolio Analysis, Product Knowledge, Risk Management.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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