Vp Finance Chief Staff Team Office Cfo New York jobs at Citi Group in United States, New York

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates field operations, including recruiting and sales support functions for all corporate Field Strategic Initiatives involving Senior Wealth Advisors, Wealth Relationship Managers, and Centralized Wealth Solution Advisors.
• Organizes the recruiting process and tracking ownership with various stakeholders including HR, Executive Management, HR Compensation, Legal, Compliance, Registration and Staffing. As well as supporting critical Loan + Bonus Regulatory and ARCM fulfillment.
• Analyzes the recruiting funnel to identify bottlenecks and process defects, implementing timely solutions or escalating to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Monitors all stages of the post acceptance background checks while holding functional partners accountable against SLAs.
• Ensures seamless coordination between internal teams, including field sales leadership, legal and onboarding teams, to optimize the Advisor hiring experience.
• Interfaces with legal and compliance teams to oversee due diligence, ensuring all regulatory and risk management requirements are met.
• Assembles Growth Accelerator Recruiting input for both CG/CPC Management as well as broader Citi Wealth audiences.

• Supports program plans meet business needs as described in the program initiation documents.
• Ensures all stakeholders are identified and included in scope definition activities and understand the program schedule and key milestones.
• 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:

• 6-10 years of experience
• Negotiate skills with external parties.
• Required: US FINRA Registration: SIE; Series 7;
  • Must meet ALL US FINRA Registration requirement within 150 days of hire date.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Master’s degree

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily operations for multiple teams and several unit supervisors and ensure teams meet performance and quality expectations
• Manage staff resource allocation while assisting with the development and oversight of the budget
• Resolve complex and highly variable issues with significant departmental impact
• Evaluate performance and make recommendations for training/development, pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining workflow standards
• Contribute to the objectives of the entire Transaction Services function
• 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 experience in a related senior level role with experience in trade / cash operations and management
• Proven experience in creating and implementing processes that result in improved business performance
• Effective verbal and written communication and analytical skills

Education:

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

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:

• Manage a team of Internal Audit professionals, recruit staff, lead professional development, build effective teams and manage a budget
• Deliver audit reports, Internal Audit and Regulatory issue validation and business monitoring and governance committee reports
• Lead reviews for all types of reviews, including the most complex, and review and approve Business Monitoring Quarterly Summaries
• Participate in major business initiatives and pro-actively advise and assist the business on change initiatives
• Implement integrated auditing concepts and technology, and follow trends in the Audit field and adapt them for the Audit function
• Identify solutions for a variety of complex and unique control issues, utilizing complex judgement and sophisticated analytical thought
• Analyze report findings, and recommend interventions where needed, proposing creative and pragmatic solutions to risk and control issues
• Partner with Directors and Managing Directors to develop approaches for addressing broader corporate emerging issues
• 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 experience in a related role
• Direct hands-on experience in audit and risk management, with technical expertise in financial models.
• Strong understanding of relevant regulations (e.g., SR 11-7, SR 15-18, OCC 11-12) and model development/validation processes in areas such as market risk, credit risk, loss forecasting, AML, Basel, CCAR, or CECL.
• Related certifications (CPA, ACA, CFA, CIA, CISA or similar) preferred
• Demonstrated successful experience in business, functional and people management
• Proven ability to execute concurrently on a portfolio of high quality deliverables according to strict timetables
• Demonstrated ability to implement continuous improvement and innovation in audit tools and techniques
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated ability to remain unbiased in a diverse working environment
• Effective negotiation skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Finance) preferred.

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The Senior Client Service Manager accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and leveraging key relationships. 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, particularly related to the branch office banking and investment relationships. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and external customers, when needed.

This role acts as subject matter expert for the client experience in banking and investments for peers and manager, identifies process improvements to address client friction points and associated training needs that arise as a result. Acts as sounding board and provides guidance to Wealth Academy to provide relevant process and technical knowledge as well as servicing best practices. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of the wealth management team, including banking and investment products, the sales process, and operational functions. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and influencing policy changes related to wealth management banking and investments. Involved in short-term planning of resources. Responsible for coordinating resources and support tools for new Advisor and Relationship Manager recruits to onboard clients.

Responsibilities:

• Actively manage the day-to-day servicing and processing activities to ensure that the staff is delivering a high level of service and complying with corporate and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Interface daily with Banking teams to ensure escalated issues addressed and client service requirements are being exceeded
• Coach and provide ongoing feedback to staff, identify training needs, and prepare developmental and training plans
• Regularly review processes to ensure maximum efficiencies while delivering superior service quality.
• Contribute to and drive tactical and strategic initiatives. Establish effective working relationships with operational and technology partners to jointly identify and resolve on-going issues.
• Regularly review internal control and regulatory requirements and self-test results to ensure that effective controls are in place. Work closely with the Global and Regional Market Managers to ensure that business initiatives are appropriately supported by Service.
• 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. 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.
• Acts as subject matter expert of banking and investment servicing. Identifies training needs and assists the Wealth Academy in creating job aids for service managers and CSAs
• Coordinate “SWAT” resources for both domestic and international Advisors who are new to Citi and need support in transferring client book to Citi (resources may or may not report directly to this role, however, this role will coordinate time, effort and collaboration with sales teams and leadership).
• Partners with National Client Service Manager to create and communicate CSA career path, to include a senior RCSA role that offers a differentiated team lead experience and builds a pipeline for potential CSM path.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience
• Robust experience in business management and risk and control in a wealth management firm
• Experience leading high performing teams
• In-depth knowledge of client onboarding requirements, including KYC and AML
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Required US FINRA: SIE, Series 7, Series 63 (or Series 66), and Series 24 (Series 9/10 accepted)

Education:

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

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Job Purpose:

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain cohesive front-to-back system architecture across Central Operations to reduce fragmentation, support shared services, automate controls, and reduce manual touch points
• Engage with Ops business and technology partners to understand business drivers, gaps, and pain points in current state
• Translate into system requirement. Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure systems that reduce complexity and support operational efficiency across business units
• Develop systems architecture blueprints covering current and target state system flows, control definitions, STP vs. manual processing, and data contracts
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and enforce architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps
• Drive simplification initiatives across application and infrastructure landscape, eliminating redundancies and technical debt
• Decompose functionality across legacy, monolithic applications to be reengineered into shared services
• Ensure architectural consistency across projects, platforms, and technologies by promoting reuse of shared components and standardized frameworks
• Define and promote best practices for systems design, API strategies, data integration, and lifecycle management
• Identify optimal technical and data solutions for developing event based micro-services
• Evaluate low-code / no-code tools to support workflow automation, process mining, reporting and analytics
• Lead architecture governance process including architecture review boards, technology assessments, and conformance to key design principles
• Partner with SMEs across the CTO organization to understand emerging engineering, architecture standards and apply them across critical initiatives
• Produce high-quality documentation and design artefacts
• Efficiently build strong working relationship with Tech and Ops partners and become a thought leader in executing the target data strategy
• Recruit and build a team of business analysts, solution engineers

Experience and Qualifications:

• 15+ years experience in financial services with 7+ years supporting cross product / functional transformation
• 5+ years experience in leading large scale enterprise architecture initiatives within banking, financial services industry
• Strong understanding of banking systems, financial services platforms, core banking, data platforms, market infrastructure providers, and regulatory frameworks
• Experience with modern architecture frameworks including cloud-native designs, microservices, APIs, evet-based architecture, and DevOps practices
• Demonstrable success in leading architecture simplification and modernization initiatives with proven business value generation
• Experience with financial services standards such as ISDA FpML, FIX, ISO20022, internal product / process taxonomies is a plus
• Experience with financial services regulations such as mandatory execution, BCBS-239, reg. reporting, etc. is a plus
• Strategic thinker with creative problem-solving capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or engineering. Masters degree preferred
• Proven track record in producing quality project artefacts, including senior management reports within a technology or risk & controls domain
• Motivated self-starter with ability to pick up and learn new skills and knowledge quickly and navigate the organization
• Ability to build and manage strong teams

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The Data Governance Foundation Sr Analyst is responsible for contributing to the development of new techniques and improvement of processes and workflow.Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits. Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization.

Responsibilities:

• Consult with end users to support defining, and/or integrating processes to align with the enterprise Data Governance roadmap and/or Data Risk and Control framework and taxonomy
• Provide technical knowledge to ensure efficient design, development, and implementation of complex projects
• Review and evaluate work of others
• Leads system change process from requirements through implementation
• Applies good understanding of concepts and procedures within own business analysis area to resolve issues
• Monitor and report governance metrics including Data Governance adoption and maturity
• Monitor alignment of processes across business, functions and lines of business to the Enterprise Data Governance Policy and standards to meet its specific requirements
• Contribute to producing recommendations for enterprise-wide guiding policies, standards and procedures

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years relevant experience in a Data Governance, Data Management or related area
• Strong project management skills
• Optimizes work processes by knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders, while monitoring tight deadlines or unexpected requirement changes
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Proficient in the use of basic Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Wholesale Lending background

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience required

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

What you’ll do:

• Leverage a strong understanding of the business to drive strategy, key stakeholders and business capability and create solution roadmaps across various business portfolios that breaks down silos to provide a best-in-class product experience.

• Fulfilling a product role driving Key Fund Service Programs focused on Simplification and move to common initiatives

• Work with Programme Sponsor to develop business cases, budget initiatives, and conduct cost benefit analysis is in line with business objectives.

• Work as Product, Program Manager / Owner and Execution lead. Leading in planning, directing and coordination of day-to-day activities of running a programme or portfolio of programmes within Fund Services.

• Partner with product management teams and product delivery executives to ensure roadmaps and implementation strategies are aligned to technology and business investments.

• Develop business cases, budget initiatives, and conduct cost benefit analysis is in line with business objectives.

• Work closely with all technical partners to align strategic technical investments to the target state business architecture or justify any deviations.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, operations, and technology to define, prioritize, and implement product enhancements and new product offerings.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive program execution plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.

• Lead efforts to establish, formalize and communicate business solutions and educate business stakeholders particularly the client teams on value and importance of proposed solutions.

• Manage the product lifecycle from conception through launch, ongoing maintenance, and eventual retirement

• Present regular updates to clients and senior management on program status, key deliverables, risks, and realized business benefits.

• Ensure all product-related activities comply with relevant regulatory requirements and internal policies.

• Develop and communicate the product strategy & governance principles aimed at optimizing straight-through processing and guaranteeing the timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and internal consistency of financial reporting, business processing, and overall client experience success.

What we’ll need from you:

• Self-motivated, independent, multi-tasker, willing and able to take ownership of various parts of an initiative. Ability to effectively deliver under time pressure, clarifying ambiguity as needed to deliver against expectations

• At least 5 years relevant project/program management experience, preferred experience in running large programs of work for Securities Services

• At least 5-10 years’ experience preferred in leading and developing project teams/professionals through dynamic growth and delivering saves, planning capacity

• Work closely with Product owners to develop and drive product roadmaps that are inclusive of business operations and technology future change needs that have a keen eye on client experience.

• Track of record in standardizing and driving procedures and policies across program and project management practice

• Ability to effectively deliver under time pressure, clarifying ambiguity as needed to deliver against expectations

• Ability to coordinate and tie break in complex and siloed organizations through Influence and develop strong relationships by driving value added change.

• Self-motivated, independent, multi-tasker, willing and able to take ownership of various parts of an initiative.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience minimum.

• Should demonstrate a commitment to quality and attention to detail

• Excellent interpersonal relationships with ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Understanding of Technology and Program Execution

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Master’s degree

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