Citi Group LATAM Business Execution Sr Officer C14 

Panama, Panamá Province, Panama City 

822161569

The LATAM Business Execution Senior Officer manages important initiatives to enhance the overall governance and control environment within the region. The role provides an opportunity to become involved in a wide variety of high-profile activities, both strategic and tactical in nature, which are integral to the operation and transformation of the region. The LATAM Business Execution Senior Officer will frequently engage with all business, functional and support partners across geographies and products.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Business Execution Senior Officer

• Coordinate high-quality deliverables for regularly occurring internal and external senior management interactions, including regulatory reviews, cluster reviews, executive committees, off-sites, cyber exercises, and senior attestations (ex. Model Inventory Attestation).
• Provide ongoing support, project management and monitoring for long-term strategic and remediation efforts in the region, including MRIA/MRAs, high-risk franchises and regulatory priorities.
• Engage on high-priority, short-term and war-room requests that can emerge suddenly in response to escalations, cyber or technology issues, natural disasters, or other COB contingency situations.
• Collect and provide regional stakeholder input for global strategic priorities, ad-hoc requests and new programs.
• Support a regular cadence of meetings between the Business Execution Head and various partners across businesses, functions, and geographies, and track resulting escalations and follow up items.
• Manage LATAM Business Execution unit functions, including executive scorecard tracking, staffing and recruitment, budgeting, training and planning key meetings.
• Represent the LATAM Business Execution Team in working groups, committees, and other key forums.

Governance Lead

• Drive standardization and enhancements for regional governance activities, in alignment with global policies including the Citi Governance Policy and Escalation Policy.
• Determine gaps in governance execution and controls within the region and drive remediation processes to resolve.
• Implement tools and resources that can support regional and country governance coordinators.
• Lead the coordination and execution of senior management Committees, including the LATAM Cluster Governance Committee.
• Utilize governance activities to promote stronger risk identification and escalation processes, driven within the 1st line of defense.
• Serve as a connection point between the region and global committees, including reporting, trends, and escalations.
• Prepare for and support internal and external reviews of regional Governance processes, including Internal Audit and regulatory reviews.
• Support transformation objectives related to general governance, legal entity oversight, reputation risk and strategic risk.
• Escalate issues, trends, and themes to senior management on a timely basis.
• Promote heightened risk awareness and risk culture throughout the region.

Required Skills

• The ideal candidate will be a take charge individual with excellent interpersonal skills and analytical abilities.
• Highly collaborative and solution focused.
• Quick learner, team oriented with strong organizational, project management and presentation skills.
• Able to handle priority deliverables independently. Highly organized with a capability of working with a large number of regional and global stakeholders.
• Able to synthesize complex concepts and extensive information into actionable and high-level management reporting.
• Ability to build and maintain professional working relationships with counterparts in different areas of the organization, working across geographies and corporate LOBs/ functions.
• Ability to manage through influence (e.g., in the absence of reporting lines or matrix reporting)
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyze operational and financial impact of initiatives and risk mitigation approaches, while providing effective challenge to the businesses and functions
• Ability to prioritize and drive results in a deadline driven environment while maintaining attention to detail and complete accuracy.
• Effective negotiation skills, a proactive and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues and strength in sustaining independent views.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify gaps in information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with people at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, preferably with experience in corporate governance, risk management, consulting, program management, compliance and/or legal
• Undergraduate degree, BS, or concentration in Business Administration, Legal and/or Finance. Relevant graduate degree is a plus.
• Up-to-date understanding of key risk management and corporate governance concepts
• General understanding of financial institutions framework and applicable regulation
• Knowledge of U.S. Regulatory framework. Knowledge of Latin American Regulatory framework a plus
• Knowledge of the financial services industry, including businesses, products, and risk management processes. Citi-specific knowledge is a plus.
• Experience in business unit management, corporate governance, or risk management/mitigation.
• Experience in compliance, business administration or legal.
• Prior work experience in the Latin America region a plus
• Fluent in English. Spanish language working proficiency is recommended. Portuguese language skills are a plus.
• Risk-based thinking and an analytical mindset.
• Strong data analytical skills supported by appropriate technical skills.
• Proficient in MS Suite applications. Excellent PowerPoint presentation skills
• Excellent written, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Traveling within the U.S. and Latin American may be required.

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