The Business Risk and Control Officer is a detail-oriented risk professional with a risk management background, who stays abreast of developments within their own field and contributes team and organizational goals. The primary purpose of this role is the development and execution a Manager’s Control Assessment Quality Assurance program (MCA; A.K.A. Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)) within Citi’s Global Finance organization. Candidates for this role will:
Have MCA / RCSA, Quality Assurance, and or internal audit experience within a moderate to large financial services organization.
Have experience supporting program development and implementation, including policies, standards, and procedures development and maturity.
Have experience supporting complex high-priority efforts, involving multiple stakeholders and competing needs, which affect the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.
Demonstrate communication and diplomacy skills required to guide, influence, and sway others, in particular colleagues and stakeholders in other areas.
Responsibilities:
Deliver improved MCA quality within the Finance organization across various risk stripes through timely and effective collaboration with business leadership and stakeholders to achieve high quality, complete, and accurate QA, and control assessments.
Apply knowledge of the business, products, or services to identify potential documentation, process, or control gaps and drive effective remediation.
Lead high priority and cross matrixed efforts related to detailed analysis of risks and controls, issues, operational losses, and root cause to identify control design and execution weaknesses, corrective actions, and improvements.
Drive QA team maturity through identification of process, systems, documentation, and training improvement opportunities in support of conformance with enterprise requirements.
Support Transformation efforts as needed.
Qualifications:
6-10 years of experience.
MS Excel, MS Access, SAS, SQL, Visual Basic a plus. 5+ years’ experience in financial services.
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.