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Citi Group Business Risk Control - Senior Group Manager Director hybrid 
United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 
410181958

20.09.2024

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 optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry.

The team’s remit includes:

  • Policy Governance and oversight, including Target Operating Model and Framework for Procedures repository.

  • New Activities approval facilitation and oversight

  • High-Risk Manual Processes Remediation Governance

  • Permitted Product List Governance

  • Delegated Trade Booking Administration and Governance

  • Fraud Risk and Conflicts of Interest Governance

  • On-Going Supervisory facilitation, administration, and Reporting for Senior Forums and Regulators

Organizational Oversight:

  • Overseeing and leading daily core team, maintaining 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

  • Developing and administering effective governance frameworks that fully meets Audit, Compliance and Regulatory requirements;

  • Delivery of periodic presentations to Senior Forums as required

  • Identify opportunities to streamline and re-align processes to ensure an optimal organizational structure for best-in-class risk management of governance functions

  • Participate in senior regulatory governance forums as required

  • Help drive comprehensive KPIs/Metrics for senior executive consumption

  • Analyse metrics for trends and lessons learned

  • Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand and update governance, frameworks, controls, challenges and potential solutions and present opportunities to senior Management

Transformation to Target State:

  • Lead a team to review our processes, governance and suite of controls and suggest change to uplift the risk profile throughout the Organisation.

  • Drive standardization of processes, governance and frameworks across regions and suggest opportunities for harmonisation across teams

  • Implement plans and execute vs milestones ensuring we meet deadlines and regulatory commitments

  • 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

  • Partner with Business, 1st and 2nd lines of defence to review governance frameworks and conduct a gap analysis relative to current state

  • Liaise with the SMEs to agree on required remediation and monitor completion of actions

  • Perform a read across to ensure enhancements are implemented across all applicable teams/regions

People Agenda:

  • Implement a successful People and Engagement strategy to help attract, develop, retain and recognize a diverse and talented workforce

  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement and cultivating a robust service and control environment

  • Engage with and lead our People. Develop effective and diverse teams across a global footprint

  • Coach and mentor our People. Ensure effective one to one discussions. Provide direction, feedback, support, and encouragement for career development

  • Champion diversity and inclusion to create a working environment which allows our People to thrive and excel

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

  • Strategically position the Operations organisation by helping to formulate the future vision of our operating model

  • Implementing best practices and global consistency, simplifying & standardising processes, controls and flows

  • Opportunity to learn and acquire expertise across a range of products and asset classes

  • Empowerment to make decisions and drive a strategy

What we will need from you:

  • Relevant Regulatory, Risk and Controls experience in a Financial Services Firm

  • Prior 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, demonstrate ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organisational 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.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we’ll provide you:

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

  • 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

  • A discretional annual performance related bonus

  • Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Pension Plan

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

  • Access to an array of learning and development resources

Risk Management


Time Type:

Full time

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