Citi Group Business Architect - Finance Credit & Market Risk Senior Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

546671872

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Finance and Risk, understand their strategic objectives and identify opportunities for business process optimization.
• Describe current and establish future state business architectures, anchored to business processes and functions

• Partner with data architects to illustrate critical data dependencies and influence data architecture to support definition of current, interim and target state business architectures
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations on business strategy, technology investments, and organizational change management

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

• Contribute thought leadership to help establish the Business Architecture practice for Finance and Risk Technology
• Ensure that the activities in Finance and Risk Technology are aligned to the enterprise-wide objectives defined by the CIO Council and CDO Council
• Develop and evangelize business architecture principles aimed at optimizing straight-through processing and guaranteeing the timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and internal consistency of financial reporting
• Embrace Citi architecture principles and standards and counsel engineering teams on how to apply them in Finance and Risk deliverables
• Champion continuous improvement the business architecture discipline at Citi - driving adoption of industry best practices, improved tooling, and training

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an engineering and/or architecture capacity providing information systems in support of business functions
• Broad and deep knowledge of standard business processes supporting the functions of Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting ideally in the Financial Services industry
• Outcome oriented, with a successful track record of delivering business process improvement outcomes demanding cross-functional collaboration and change to enterprise information architectures
• Experience working in matrix environments and partnering with virtual teams
• 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
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, interpersonal) which enable engagement and influence of stakeholders at all levels within the organization, from technical developers to the savviest business/executive leaders
• Methodical, attention to detail

• Familiarity with technologies, concepts and best practices employed in modern enterprise information architectures

• Any relevant certifications such as TOGAF are a plus
• Any experience of large scale Finance and Risk implementations (e.g. Transformation of Reporting, Ledger/ERP, FP&A, Treasury) a major plus

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