Ccar/ppnr Model Developer- C11- Manager jobs at Citi Group in India, Gurugram

Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) is an annual regulatory submission to US Federal Reserve Board (FRB). It is used to ensure that institutions have robust, forward-looking capital planning processes that account for their unique risks and sufficient capital to continue operations throughout times of economic and financial stress. As part of CCAR, the Federal Reserve evaluates institutions' capital adequacy, internal capital adequacy assessment processes, and their plans to make capital distributions, such as dividend payments or stock repurchases.

Responsibilities:

• Development of econometric forecasting models for key Balance sheet and income statement line items for capital and business planning purposes. This includes the calculation of Net Interest Income (“NII”), Non-Interest Revenue (“NIR”), Interest Rate Exposure (“IRE”), and other associated interest rate risk metrics.
• Developing Champion and Challenger models using different time series forecasting methodologies to comply with SR 15-18 guidance.
• Development of Benchmark models using Industry data series to meet regulatory requirements
• Manage the model life-cycle from first-line of defense perspective and participate in Segmentation, Risk Identification, overlay discussions with Businesses and Finance teams.
• Responsible for writing model development documentation and partner with Model Risk Management (MRM) to address their feedback.
• Contribute to stakeholder conversations with Businesses, Finance, Treasury and Risk to seek their sign-offs on Champion models.

Qualifications / skill sets:

• 2-4 years of relevant statistical /business experience in financial services
• Strong understanding of statistical techniques such as Ordinary Least Square regression (OLS) , Fixed-effect Panel Regression, Error Correction Models, Seemingly Unrelated regression and Cointegration .
• Understanding of Machine learning algorithms will be a plus
• Hands-on experience in programming and modeling using SAS, Python and R is preferred.
• Follow a culture of accountability and strict quality control of the data integrity and modeling process
• Ability to build key relationships with finance and business teams
• Must be able to present technical matters in a way that is meaningful to the audience

Education:

• Masters / PhD in quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Economics or related discipline

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Responsibilities:

• Incumbents work with large and complex data sets (both internal and external data) to evaluate, recommend, and support the implementation of business strategies
• Identifies and compiles data sets using a variety of tools (e.g. SQL, Access) to help predict, improve, and measure the success of key business to business outcomes
• Responsible for documenting data requirements, data collection / processing / cleaning, and exploratory data analysis; which may include utilizing statistical models / algorithms and data visualization techniques
• Incumbents in this role may often be referred to as Data Scientists
• Specialization in marketing, risk, digital and AML fields possible
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 4-8 years relevant experience
• Hands-on Data Scientist with knowledge of latest tools and techniques
• Good to have GenAI exposure
• Good to have Financial Crimes Compliance Knowledge
• Have the ability to retrieve and manipulation data
• Possess analytic ability and problem solving skills
• Working experience in a quantitative field
• Willing to learn and can-do attitude
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be organized, detail oriented, flexible and adaptive to matrix work environment
• Ability to build partnerships with cross-function leaders

Education:

• Bachelors/Masters/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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In this role the job responsibilities are, but not limited to:

• Analyze, design and redesign complex business requirements, process maps, functional specifications, and communicate clearly with development teams.

• Evaluate existing recruitment business processes and identify opportunities for improvement or efficiency based on previous workday experience (must have).

• Collaborate in simultaneous global system enhancements and new vendor incubation from inception through implementation.

• Provide actionable insights and evaluate new ideas regarding our overall recruitment technology ecosystem involving workday systemic/integration/process changes based on previous experience.

• Collaborate and utilize strategic reporting data requests (ongoing) to drive future-state dashboard development, operational decision making based on results, and best practice recommendations.

• Exposure to global metrics function and utilizing recruitment metrics to drive operational improvement and efficiencies.

• Function autonomously as a change agent for all recruitment systems initiatives

• Collaborate with Practitioners to document UAT strategy, plan and scripts utilizing knowledge of current structure and future requirements as we update and upgrade systems and recruitment procedures.

• Develops and designs standards and procedures, ensures that they are adhered to throughout the software development life cycle.

• Strives for continuous improvements and streamlining of processes.

• Ensures consistency and quality of processes across the organization.

• 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:

• 4-6 years of Workday HCM configuration and integrations experience or experience supporting large scale Workday implementations, globally.

• Experience with instance of Workday recruitment in a global environment, along with downstream vendor integrations to support the recruitment process (i.e., assessments, interviewing, etc.).

• Relevant & demonstratable experience/involvement with evaluation of new and existing tools within the recruitment ecosystem such as Eightfold, Video interview vendor integrations with Workday, Digital signatures, assessments, etc.

• Should be an expert in Workday HCM functional configuration with demonstrated capabilities in redesigning recruiting business processes for large scale transformations.

• Should have intermediate to advanced understanding of Workday supported integrations including file formats like XML, XSLT, JSON etc.

• Demonstrated transformationalbusiness analystskills todrive

Soft Skills

• In-depth understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle processes.

• Thorough understanding of end-to-end testing processes, Quality Center, and other testing related tools.

• Requires communication and diplomacy skills and an ability to persuade and influence.

• Ability to strategically evaluate and provide insights and opportunities based on previous experience in recruitment technology space, along with associated metrics and market valuation.

• Strong communication skills – able to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels within the organization.

• Good organizational skills

• Influencing skills – ability to influence stakeholders and partners across the business.

• Ability to learn quickly and be a self-starter in terms of filling knowledge gaps.

• Act as an internal consultant.

• Ability to prioritize efforts in a demanding environment.

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

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• Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) is an annual regulatory submission to US Federal Reserve Board (FRB). It is used to ensure that institutions have robust, forward-looking capital planning processes that account for their unique risks and sufficient capital to continue operations throughout times of economic and financial stress. As part of CCAR, the Federal Reserve evaluates institutions' capital adequacy, internal capital adequacy assessment processes, and their plans to make capital distributions, such as dividend payments or stock repurchases.

  The FP&A Statistical Modeler Intmd Analyst is an intermediate level position, part of FP&A Model Development team

  Responsibilities:

• Development of econometric forecasting models for key Balance sheet and income statement line items for capital and business planning purposes. This includes the calculation of Net Interest Income (“NII”), Non-Interest Revenue (“NIR”), Interest Rate Exposure (“IRE”), and other associated interest rate risk metrics.
• Developing Champion and Challenger models using different time series forecasting methodologies to comply with SR 15-18 guidance.
• Development of Benchmark models using Industry data series to meet regulatory requirements
• Manage the model life-cycle from first-line of defense perspective and participate in Segmentation, Risk Identification, overlay discussions with Businesses and Finance teams.
• Responsible for understanding changes to quantitative requirements published by MRM in Model Testing Guidance and presenting the key changes to senior model development leads. Also, be a champion in addressing observations raised by MRM and Internal Audit in a quantitative manner by thinking out-of-box.
• Responsible for writing model development documentation and partner with Model Risk Management (MRM) to address their feedback.
• Contribute to stakeholder conversations with Businesses, Finance, Treasury and Risk to seek their sign-offs on Champion models.

• Qualifications / skill sets:

• 4-6 years of relevant statistical /business experience in financial services
• Strong understanding of statistical techniques such as Ordinary Least Square regression (OLS) , Fixed-effect Panel Regression, Error Correction Models, Seemingly Unrelated regression and Cointegration .
• Understanding of Machine learning algorithms will be a plus
• Hands-on experience in programming and modeling using SAS, Python and R is preferred.
• Follow a culture of accountability and strict quality control of the data integrity and modeling process
• Ability to build key relationships with finance and business teams
• Must be able to present technical matters in a way that is meaningful to the audience

• Education:

• Masters / PhD in quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Economics or related discipline

Time Type:

Shape your Career with Citi

Citi’s

based inGurgaon, 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.
• 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.

The primary purpose of the Test Manager is to ensure new systems launches and existing system upgrades deliver the required functionality to the quality expected.

The Test Manager will work with sponsors and key stakeholders to assess the risk appetite and devise a test strategy and plan. They will oversee the execution of the plan and provide a go / no go recommendation to the sponsors at the end of the testing phase.Test Managers will also be responsible for driving the implementation of the Test Strategy, focused on “shifting to the left”. This includes more involvement with the BAs and development team to ensure requirements are unambiguous and match client expectations.
We work with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with sponsors / stakeholders to understand the risk appetite for any system change
• Define test strategy, both internal testing and Joint Client testing
• Apply Shift to Left testing approach withVendors/BA’s/Stakeholdersand Clients to manage risk within Testing
• Define and manage progress of Testing plan
• Manage Level of Effort and timelines for testing
• Manage workshops with Business SMEs/BAs/Client
• Manage creation of test scripts/cases for execution in user acceptance testing (both internal and external) phases
• Manage execution of test scripts and review actual results against expected results, in accordance with the prescribed test plan
• Chair Defect calls and Work with the system supplier to analyse and resolve defects identified during all test phases
• Provide daily reporting on test execution & defect management to the Test and Project Managers
• Create and maintain productive working relationships with peers, the clients and the vendors
• Produce go / no go recommendation based on test execution results

Development Value:

• Gain a wider knowledge of the clients’ business models and Citi’s end-to-end processes and the Citi Operating Model.
• Develop the individual’s awareness of business risk and understanding of cost/benefit decision making.
• Working with and coordination of colleagues across multiple global sites and a multi-client base.

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

• Ability to plan and organise work
• High level of attention to detail
• Numeric
• Ability to execute actions according to a prescribed plan of activities
• Communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work under pressure against aggressive deadlines
• Ability to work as part of a team, and also work independently with minimum supervision
• Ability to manage team of Test Analyst’s to ensure Testing Project plan is on track
• Ability to communicate and articulate to Senior Stakeholders Testing progress and escalation of blockers
• Working closely with Client Stakeholders and collaboration during planning and Test execution
• Previous experience of following and reporting on progress against test plans
• Previous experience in fund accounting
• Previous experience of user acceptance testing, including Managing, planning, defining the approach, scripting and test execution
• Principles of quality process improvement, Shift to Left approach
• Experience of using JIRA to manage Business requirements, Test Cycles and Defects
• Experience using Multifonds (fund administration). Other related Citi systems desirable

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In this role, you are expected to:

• Gather operational data from various cross functional stakeholders to examine past business performance
• Identify data patterns & trends, and provide insights to enhance business decision making capability in business planning, process improvement, solution assessment etc.
• Recommend actions for future developments & strategic business opportunities, as well as enhancements to operational strategies
• Perform exploratory data analysis, confirmatory data analysis and/or qualitative analysis using relevant tools & techniques
• Translate data into insights to drive business strategies for various Operations functions like Customer Service, Collections, KYC & Back Office, Wealth Operations Analytics & Reporting, Global Workforce Optimization, and communicate clearly and effectively to business partners and senior leaders all findings
• Continuously improve processes and strategies by exploring and evaluating new data sources, tools, and capabilities
• Work closely with internal and external business partners in building, implementing, tracking and improving decision strategies
• 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 a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• Data Analysis & Process Improvement: Expertise in statistical analysis, data mining, process mapping, and process re-engineering (Lean, Six Sigma). Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, QlikView) to identify trends and present findings.
• Automation & Programming: Experience with automation tools (e.g., SAS, PySpark) and programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, Hive) to develop and implement automated solutions for operational processes.
• Business Acumen & Communication: Strong understanding of business operations and financial metrics. Ability to translate data insights into actionable recommendations and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Customer Focus & Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to analyze customer feedback (complaints, sentiment), identify pain points, and develop solutions to improve customer experience. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address operational challenges.
• Domain Expertise (Finance/Banking/Operations): Knowledge of financial services operations, regulatory requirements (e.g., KYC, AML), and industry best practices is highly beneficial.
• Demonstrating technical expertise to develop best-in-class solutions at industry standard
• Thought Leadership in leading the ideation, solution development and implementation in collaboration with business partners
• Providing mentorship and onboarding support for other analysts and new members within the team

Eligibility Criteria:

• 5+ years relevant analytics experience (For Masters)
• 8+ years relevant analytics experience (For 4 years Bachelors degree)

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• The Model/Anlys/Valid Intmd Anlyst is a developing professional role. Deals with most problems independently and has some latitude to solve complex problems. Integrates in-depth specialty area knowledge with a solid understanding of industry standards and practices. Good understanding of how the team and area integrate with others in accomplishing the objectives of the subfunction/ job family. Applies analytical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools and methodologies. Requires attention to detail when making judgments and recommendations based on the analysis of factual information. Typically deals with variable issues with potentially broader business impact. Applies professional judgment when interpreting data and results. Breaks down information in a systematic and communicable manner. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to exchange potentially complex/sensitive information.
• Moderate but direct impact through close contact with the businesses' core activities. Quality and timeliness of service provided will affect the effectiveness of own team and other closely related teams.
• Responsibilities:
  • Develops, enhances, and validates the methods of measuring and analyzing risk, for all risk types including market, credit and operational. Also, may develop, validate and strategize uses of scoring models and scoring model related policies.
  • Supports the design, development, delivery and maintenance of best-in-class Risk programs, policies and practices for Risk Management.
  • Reviews institutional or retail analytics and Models and other documents to ensure compliance with various regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Identifies potential risks and escalates for further review.
  • Handles preliminary investigations, assists with reconciliation procedures and prepares routine correspondence.
  • Creates and maintains reports for control, tracking, and analysis purposes and ensures appropriate and secure retention of documents.
  • Works with more senior staff in investigating and responding to customer and operational complaints.
  • Interacts and works with other areas within Risk Management, as necessary.
  • 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.
  Qualifications:
  • 5+ years experience
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office with an emphasis on MS Excel
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-motivated and detail oriented
  • Demonstraed project management and organizational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time
  Education:
  • Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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