Director Financial Regulatory Rules Interpretation Principal C15 jobs at Citi Group in United States, New York

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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Responsibilities:

• Execute against key priorities for the Lending business across multiple countries/jurisdictions and business divisions
• Ensure stakeholder buy-in for strategic initiatives, including key stakeholders across the three client segments
• Partner with leadership team to set goals for Lending and ensure tracking and ROI measuring are in place for all initiatives
• Supports medium- to long-term plans and functional strategies requiring coordination and integration across units, both within Wealth and the broader Citi organization
• Partner with leadership team on resource allocation, productivity initiatives and realization of cost efficiency
• Drive culture and people initiatives
• Act as delegate for Lending head when required in certain meetings
• Oversee the design, enhancement, implementation, reporting, and oversight of budgets, financials, operations, human resources and compliance by way of systems, processes, workflows, procedures and the assessment of existing environments and anticipated changes
• Engage in cost management activities as appropriate
• Monitor strict adherence to governance and ensure risks are addressed, setting high standards of professionalism across all functions
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citi, its clients and assets
• Management responsibilities for a team, including management of people, budgeting and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions, etc.
• Has authority to negotiate and make independent decisions on issues/activities that have critical impact or influence on the global Lending team.
• Develop business cases to drive strategic partnership across Wealth that give Citi a competitive advantage with clients

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in financial services
• Strategically minded with track record of execution excellence
• Hands-on orientation with the demonstrated ability to set up internal processes to communicate and resolve issues
• Proven financial acumen, critical thinker with ability to provide an impartial, consultative and solutions-oriented approach
• Comprehensive knowledge of general IT infrastructure, Human Capital Management (HCM) and financial advice-related compliance
• Demonstrated leadership and management abilities with commitment to client and team member experience, goals of practice and productivity
• Demonstrated planning, delegation, financial reporting and budgeting skills
• Consistently detail-oriented, goal-oriented and able to work in a team
• Excellent communication skills required in order to influence a wide range of audiences
• Prior success working in a large, highly-matrix and complex organization; able to set priorities and 'triage' in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Technical knowledge, in-depth knowledge of Profit and Loss (P&L) and understanding of end to end business operating systems.
• Customer and client focus; record of achievement in applying a client centric mindset to shape solutions and approaches

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred

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Lead and Oversee:

Work with Finance colleagues to ensure that balance sheet substantiation is complete and that controls are designed effectively

Oversee and co-ordinate all account owner activity across Markets Operations. Includes but not limited to:

Understand and maintain Operations chart of accounts

Set a framework to ensure consistent roles and responsibilities for all Markets Ops staff as it pertains to how we control our account population and reconciliations requirements

Work with Markets Ops global functional managers to understand reasons for exceptions and breaks, ensuring issues are escalated timely, fixed at the root cause and look across for similar themes

Ensure well defined and documented processes are in place for reserve calculations across Markets Operations. Identify opportunities to reduce aged exceptions to reduce reserves

Review account ownership to ensure that the proofing processes are standard in their application and where relevant centralize these processes to drive efficiencies

Partnership with other functions to support a strong end to end control environment:

Work with Finance and Operations Risk & Control to ensure Markets Operations are compliant with relevant policies and standards

Partner with Balance Sheet Control and risk reporting to support accurate and timely exceptions reporting

Work with Front office to ensure upstream data and processes are understood and robust so as to prevent downstream issues from occurring

Drive progress on areas of improvement:

Work with Technology and internal partners to build a standard mechanism to accrue for and then pay/receive interest between internal desks/accounts across all products in Markets

Implement best practices to ensure reconciliations are correctly designed and compliant with relevant standards and controls

Promote development and retention of account and reconciliation SME’s across the group

Strengthen issue management processes, ensure emerging risks are correctly escalated with the appropriate level of urgency

Lead and oversee Markets Operations’ involvement in firm-wide programs related to accounting and book and records matters (e.g. Strategic Ledger). Represent Markets Operations at firmwide governance forums such as the Enterprise Design Authority.

10+ years relevant experience

Industry expertise in financial accounting and the operational aspects of books and records management and account management

Experience as finance professional / background / degree and working experience in Technology creating products set up, UAT working with Finance / Market Ops people and understanding of products will be valuable.

Articulates clearly how risk technology supports unit's business, as well as the issues due to gaps between the current technology and known business requirements.

Well-versed in reviewing the dimensions of franchise risk.

Strong Leadership skills-Operates as a leader.

Serves as a point of escalation for key issues or time sensitive decisions.

Acts decisively in high risk scenarios, assessing a situation based on available data, experience, intuition, and judgment.

Demonstrated ability to make sound judgment calls on issues that can be both quantitative and qualitative in nature.

Able to manage issues associated with operational risk capital, in partnership with the business, Finance and the Risk organization.

Acts as a role model for managing people, coaching, and serving as a mentor.

Excellent Communications skills verbal & written. Active listening skills.

Qualifications:

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

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The Fin Solutions Sr. Manager accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the design, roll-out and governance of financial solutions, including:
• Participates in formulating and setting strategic direction for the process, organization and architecture covering Finance across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations
• Assists in setting business and information architecture standards for Finance
• Plays a part in settling and operating necessary forums and frameworks to establish and govern policies and starts for global Finance processes
• Participates in assessing and incorporating changing business, regulatory and market information needs into finance processes and applications
• Manages a small team, or function as a single incumbent with management responsibilities for a function.
• Integrates expertise and industry expertise within a defined area.
• Advises on standards around which others will operate.
• Coordinates and contributes to the ideas of the entire function.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Ability to manage teams.
• 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:

• 6-10+ years of relevant experience, within the financial services industry preferred
• Recognized technical authority for an area within the business.
• Requires communication and diplomacy skills in order to guide and influence others.
• Experience and demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a complex and dynamic environment
• Self-motivated with the ability to make decisions in the absence of detailed instructions.
• Proficient Microsoft Office skills
• In depth knowledge of banking products / systems preferred.
• CPA preferred

Education:

• Bachelors degree, potentially Masters degree

Conocimiento de estados financieros

Experiencia en atención a auditorias

Ingles avanzadoINDISPENSABLE

Habilidades de comunicación a nivel directivo

Experiencia en manejo de equipos (Liderazgo)

Carrera terminada con titulo

Experiencia en el sector financiero

Experiencia o participación en implementación de proyectos de estados financieros / Implementación de algún sistema

Experiencia en automatización de reportes financieros

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Citi Equities Technology organization is looking for a senior, hands-on technology lead for its algorithmic trading applications in the North America region.

The senior technologist in this role will be responsible for day-to day delivery of algorithmic trading products ensuring architectural and design consistency across regions, adherence to latency targets, maintaining high standards on code quality and continuous improvement of delivery processes like automated testing, dev ops & SRE. This role will provide hands-on coding and design leadership to the engineering team and work with other Electronic Trading leads on setting design direction for our global low-latency trading frameworks. The role requires specialized skills in low-latency trading, zero garbage techniques and performance tuning of OS & network interactions.

Responsibilities:

• End to End design, development and support of high-performance algorithmic trading systems.

• Partner with business users, quant researchers and clients on product development
• Manage and support a team of senior developers & QA specialists.
• Continuous improvements of SDLC processes including Agile delivery, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines & support processes.
• Envision, design and implement test cases for trading functions.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience with strong technical knowledge either Java or C++
• Demonstrable expertise in low-latency trading, zero garbage techniques and performance tuning of OS & network interactions.
• Previous experience in developing E-Trading & algorithmic trading platforms.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure & regulatory regimes for the US markets.
• Strong understanding of modern SDLC practices including Agile methodologies, automated testing techniques, continuous integration processes & devops.
• Prior experience in working with global technology teams.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication skills with a demonstrable ability to present & grasp complex concepts in a multicultural environment.

Education:

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

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Role and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Define and drive the strategic agenda for the Services Marketing organization’s MarTech roadmap, mobilizing key partners across the end-to-end ecosystem inclusive of near term & long-term priorities for critical domains e.g. campaign management & workflow, content management, channel management & delivery, audience management, etc.
• Design and deliver prioritized MarTech stack capabilities and infrastructure strategies roadmap for the e Services Marketing organization aligned with the Services business priorities, the initiatives of the Marketing Innovation and Content team within the centralized Marketing and Content organization, and firm-wide policies, and global regulations.
• They must also be able to secure necessary resources and processes to successfully deliver on plan. Responsible to deliver Adobe content stack, enabling dynamic, personalized digital content, and testing capabilities. In addition, build next generation offer management infrastructure to enable real-time, always on, customer level promotional offers.

• Responsible for managing the oversight of the marketing platform capabilities and infrastructure that spans traditional and non-digital marketing needs.

• Track and manage the multi-year and multi million investment for MarTech Book of Work.
• Ensure the proper control and operational models are designed, socialized and adopted upon migration to new capabilities and establish automated reporting and analytics to deliver robust insights on transformation KPIs
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.

Skills and Competencies

• 15+ years of experience with leading digital transformation and integration of MarTech projects including Seismic, Workfront, Adobe AEM, Offer management tools, Pega, Salesforce marketing cloud, etc.
• 8-10+ years of managerial experience with high performing Marketing Technology solution teams
• Experience with marketing technology architecture, backend systems, data dependencies, and front-end interfaces that are required to implement and execute digital marketing campaigns

• Analytical and conceptual thinker with ability to operate in “white space” with experience in both building strategy and executing it with demonstrable results and outcomes

• Customer-centric and tech-savvy product leader that has driven technical and operational teams to solutions that focus on delivering outstanding experiences supported by agile and efficient operational processes.
• Executive leadership skills and demonstrated success in conveying complex concepts, solutions, and relevant business impacts to leadership audiences to gain support and sponsorship for projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated success in building collaborative relationships with the ability to influence the development and execution of key strategies/initiatives
• Expert knowledge of the industry and direct competitors' products/services to drive to the commercial objectives of the business, as well as thorough understanding of strategic direction of the function within the business

• Act as a change management champion, educating the greater marketing organization on how to leverage new capabilities to drive their strategy.

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

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Key Activities include:

• Coordinating interactions with regulators and internal stakeholder, including but not limited to: assisting in providing oversight for supervisory engagement; coordinating and managing events related to examinations and continuous monitoring, including working with businesses and functions in negotiating scope and timing of reviews, monitoring requested data aggregation and coordinating and attending regulatory meetings with control functions and business unit personnel; and collaborating with Business Heads to provide guidance on regulatory matters and continually enhancing the framework to identify, assess, control, and monitor regulatory communication.

• Leading and mentoring team members through exam and interaction process by providing expertise on how to best engage with the regulators as well as insight into Services products.

• Providing regular updates to management (including preparing business personnel for meetings with regulators) regarding the matters being handled, including, but not limited to, collection, tracking and resolution of queries, review with the area under examination the materials requested to ensure completeness and responsiveness of submissions, and the timely escalation and resolution of potential issues.

• Communicating extensively (orally and in writing) and developing effective relationships with regulators.

• Establishing and developing effective relationships with Citigroup senior management, front line, second line (including independent risk, finance, HR, and Legal), Internal Audit to obtain information / documentation to respond to regulatory requests proactively and on time with quality.

• Analyzing, digesting and summarizing information/documentation responsive to regulatory requests.

• Identifying mitigating facts and circumstances (as applicable) to respond to potential issues identified during regulatory engagement, including the various stages of the exam management lifecycle.

• Monitoring the full lifecycle of identified regulatory issues ensuring that concerns are communicated, assigned responsibility, and tracked to resolution.

• Maintaining the centralized repository where documents are stored and previous regulatory and supervisory findings, reports and similar documents.

• Stewarding the drafting of the firm’s Response Letters and coordinating involvement of relevant internal stakeholders such as Technology and Internal Audit on the development of Corrective Action Plans and associated target dates.

• Additional duties as assigned.

• Domestic and international travel may be required (20%)

Qualifications:

• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant experience

• Knowledge of the regulatory engagement process or internal audit

• Experience leading teams of direct reports and indirect stakeholders

• Experience with or previous exposure to internal control functions and regulators within the region, and in particular banking regulators

• Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and with people at all levels of the organization

• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to both work collaboratively and independently; ability to navigate a complex organization

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree required.

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