Citi Group Chief Auditor Banking International Markets & Services Compliance - MD 

United Kingdom, England, London 

191549317

Critical thinking and executive presentation skills will be important requirements of the role as themes related to risks and issues across the organization will be identified and presented to key stakeholders, such as senior management, the Audit Committee, regulators and external audit functions. The incumbent requires a wider ranging, yet detailed knowledge of technology processes, as well as a strong understanding of the fundamental risks associated with a large investment bank. The role will entail considerable co-ordination and development of resources to meet the plan and will therefore also require strong people management and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Audit Plan: Design and implement an audit plan for the function that consider emerging and established risk; industry best practices and external frameworks; legal entity and country-level regulatory requirements; and an end-to end view of Compliance risks and controls that cross business functions, geographies and platforms.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively engage with senior leadership and teams across Compliance to provide credible challenge and positively influence Citi culture, ethical conduct, governance, risk management and control frameworks. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with teams both within Legal, Compliance & Risk Audit, as well as across IA Product and Functions teams globally. Leverage the feedback achieved from this to continually improve the definition and risk assessment of the audit universe as well as identify new and optimized ways of auditing the environment to maximize the insight achieved.
• Regulatory Relationship Management: As part of the broader Legal, Compliance & Risk IA Leadership Team, contribute to managing IA’s regulatory relationships resulting in constructive two-way dialogue, trust in the IA function and general reliance being placed on IA’s work related to Legal, Compliance & Risk. Engage actively with the Regulatory Issue Validation team on the validation of regulatory issues, ensuring timelines are met and regulatory intent is addressed.
• IA Team: Attract, motivate and develop a highly effective, diverse, talented and trusted team. Work with other IA Chief Auditors to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of IA resources, taking into consideration the experience and location of the team, as well as leveraging different audit approaches and best practice. Identify and develop talent, providing long-term career opportunities both within IA and across other parts of Citi.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience in a related role
• Related certifications (CPA, ACA, CFA, CIA, CISA or similar) preferred
• Extensive understanding of products across Banking, Markets and Services Businesses, and the design and operation of risk and controls framework associated with these, that preferably includes internal audit experience.
• Demonstrable product knowledge of Compliance including a broad experience of the management of regulatory requirements and associated regulatory interaction.
• In-depth experience of the US and global regulatory environment, preferably including interaction with the OCC and FRB.
• Executive presence and expert in building and maintaining strong open relationships with executive stakeholders, working as a partner, exerting influence and providing credible challenge in a constructive manner.
• Advanced understanding of culture, ethical conduct, governance, risk management and control frameworks in leading international organizations.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the full risk implications of complex global issues, escalate to the appropriate level and provide advice and on pragmatic commercial solutions.
• Outstanding performer, open minded, resilient, agile, energetic, self-starter, articulate and empathetic whilst being confident to deliver opinions to bring about positive outcomes.
• Strong leadership skills including a track record of identifying and developing world class talent. Experienced in leading large, dispersed and diverse professional teams.

Education:

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

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

* Honesty, integrity and reputation

* Financial soundness

* Competence and capability

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

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