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