Citi Group Investments Insurance Risk Assessment Control Design C16 

United States, New York, New York 

294997527

Wealth delivers a wide range of products and services covering capital markets, managed investments, portfolio management, trust and estate planning, investment finance and banking. By building on the strengths and capabilities across Citi, we intend to transform the way we serve clients across the wealth spectrum, delivering the full range of high tech and high touch capabilities Citi can offer, and ultimately help them achieve their goals.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead a team of Senior Control professionals supporting members of the Investments Leadership team with assessment of operational, compliance and reputational risks and the design of effective controls to support business growth and expansion agenda.
• Lead quantitative and qualitative assessments of significance and likelihood of risks in key global investment and insurance processes around client suitability, transaction related controls and compliance with policies and applicable global/ local regulations.
• Take an end-to-end view to drive greater integration and simplification and automation of controls to accelerate the path to scale across global investment and insurance products.
• Effectively partner with business leaders to strengthen their ability to make data driven impactful decisions, policy / process improvements, and structure and operationalize controls.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve risk management effectiveness and client experience, while identifying and developing plans to mitigate emerging risks and issues.
• Support the harmonization, enhancement, and greater integration of Wealth policies, standards, procedures, leading appropriate levels of alignment across client segments/ product/ regions.
• Develop and drive credible plans to identify root causes and remediate issues/ regulatory findings, working with cross functional leaders across Wealth.
• Support enhancements to the Material Risk Inventory process for operational, compliance and reputational risks, also guiding the development of non-financial stress testing scenarios.
• Enable the redesign of Wealth Controls toward shared capabilities teams.
• Attract and retain top talent, building a strongly engaged team.
• Lead significant investment and insurance control related regulatory interactions globally, including items related to Citi regulatory commitments with Wealth impact.
• Drive robust data driven process to proactively prepare for on internal audit, risk / compliance reviews and regulatory exams in investment and insurance related areas.
• Significant Wealth Management Team interactions and Governance Committee presentations.
• Foster effective partnerships with internal Control Functions and external constituencies, including regulators, community and advocacy groups, and industry/trade associations.
• Drive awareness around activities with the CBNA legal vehicle and Wealth-operated CBNA subsidiaries; maintain processes for appropriate management and escalation of issues including to the CBNA CEO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required. Relevant advanced qualifications (e.g., MBA, CFA, FRM) preferred.
• 20+ years of leadership experience in large global financial firms.
• Deep global risk assessment and mitigation leadership experience across investments (including capital markets, alternative products) and insurance (including life, non-life, annuities)
• Deep understanding of US regulations including SRO/ FINRA requirements, Investment Advisors Act, Regulation Best Interest, Reg 9/ Fiduciary requirements, Federal and state insurance regulations, with expertise in key Wealth Markets (Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, UAE).
• Proven ability to demonstrate a growth mindset and achieve results in challenging situations.
• Track record of operating successfully in a complex and highly regulated business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive customer journey improvements with enhanced controls.
• Ability to manage a global team, motivating and engaging senior control professionals.
• Experience driving results through influence / thought leadership and a structured approach across cross functional teams.
• Knowledge of best practices in Operational Risk, Compliance, Credit and Financial Operations.
• Advanced analytical ability, asks insightful questions, break analytical challenges into workable components and draws meaningful conclusions. Well versed in breaking down complex matters into core issues and root causes that can be more readily addressed.
• Consistently reads different situations accurately and takes appropriate action to gain senior colleague/ client commitment.
• Articulates clearly how risk technology supports unit's business, as well as the issues due to gaps between the current technology and known business requirements. Ability to measure and assess the impact of stress shocks including fat-tailed risks.

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