Citi Group Risk Supervision & Oversight Senior Vice President 

United States, New Jersey, Jersey City 

261561660

Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace. We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuous evaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm and our reputation.

We work closely with our external global peers, partners and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimise and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry.

Job Purpose:

Risk framework strategy and implementation

• Regulatory and Internal Audit remediation for cross-Markets Ops findings (e.g. MRAs/ Audit Escalation Reports)
• Control Framework oversight for Payments and Balance Sheet Management
• Effective design and implementation of broader Ops Control Solutions

Risk Metrics strategy and oversight

• Strategy and design of Operational Risk metrics /strategic dashboards
• Governance of Risk Metrics

The candidate will partner with first line and second line, and across all Markets Ops functions and regions to review the control framework for key risk areas, conduct a gap analysis relative to current state, leading to a plan for control enhancement requirements.

The role provides a range of opportunities to impact and influence the overall target state design and implementation of our strategic transformation priorities including:

• Strategically position the Operations organization by helping to formulate the future vision of our operating model
• Implementing best practices and global consistency, simplifying & standardizing processes, and flows
• Opportunity to learn and acquire expertise across a range of products and asset classes
• Empowerment to make decisions and drive a strategy
• Significant interaction with a wide range of stakeholder groups and senior management to help drive the agenda

Organizational Oversight:

• Partnering with Markets Operations to ensure we are set up to succeed. Executing vs a strategy that fosters a culture and environment where processes, risks and controls are continually monitored, and potential risks escalated on a timely basis as well as acting as a senior point of escalation
• Embedding an effective supervisory control framework that fully meets Audit, Compliance and Regulatory requirements.
• Determining core control framework for Markets Lines of Business

Transformation to Target State:

• Review our suite of controls and suggest change to uplift the risk profile throughout the Organisation and its products
• Drive standardization of controls across regions and suggest opportunities for harmonisation across teams
• Implement plans and execute vs milestones ensuring we meet deadlines
• Ensure our infrastructure and tools meet the needs in order to manage risk. Develop and suggest operating model changes in order to pivot the operations Organization towards digitization and a robust control environment
• Driving and supporting the delivery of strategic platform re-engineering initiatives, with conscious intent to standardize and industrial flow, reducing manual touch points and aligning tech delivery vs. business goal and wallet share optimization
• Supporting the implementation of initiatives to continuously improve Straight Through Processing (STP) rates

Story Telling:

• Help drive comprehensive risk KPIs/Metrics for senior executive consumption – for each product and function, working in close partnership with the product Leaders
• Analyse risk metrics for trends and lessons learnt
• Partner with the Ops product leaders to understand and update process flows, challenges and potential solutions and present opportunities to senior Management
• Articulate solutions vs current state for digitization, automation, low code solutions and straight through processing

Skills & Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience preferred
• Significant experience related to operations or capital markets preferred and people management experience
• Experience delivering strategic change programmes in a fast paced, large global financial services firm,

• Strong people manager and experience leading global teams including; hiring, training, mentoring and developing team members

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, demonstrat ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
• Strong risk management and control mindset
• Self-reliant, good problem solver, results oriented
• Strong awareness of both external and internal best practice perspectives, maintaining a balanced and fresh viewpoint.

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