Finance Data Transformation and Regulatory Director

Finance Data Transformation And Regulatory Director

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Job Overview

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi's Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients' and the public's trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Finance Integration team delivers technology solutions and key global platforms for Finance. These solutions enable Citi to comply with regulatory mandates and empower our businesses to achieve their goals, both current and long-term. Our products and initiatives adhere to Citi's strategic architecture and support the end-to-end integration of multiple global functions within the bank including Finance, Risk, Treasury, Information Security, Compliance Metrics, Audit, Assessments and Controls across the entire bank.

Finance Data Transformation and Regulatory Director is a senior management level position responsible for all data transformation and regulatory projects across the team, working on programs that drive forward delivery across data acquisition and data consumption for enterprise strategies and technology roadmap. This person will be accountable for making sure the transformation and regulatory projects get delivered on time, is able to effectively communicate with the executives, to meet their ongoing management and regulatory reporting requirements and is solution oriented and is able to mobilize the team and guide the team to solve complex finance data problems.

Responsibilities:

• Act as an anchor point for all the business and data solutions, ensuring alignment to the business vision.
• Provide thought leadership in defining reconciliation and control for risk, liquidity, and P&L processes.
• Liaise with front office teams and systems to ensure data alignment.
• Drive priorities, program management, budgeting, risk & control, audits, vendor management, and overall delivery/governance while balancing risks and change complexities Services, Banking and Markets businesses.
• Manage execution of data operating model for Finance reports.
• Manage/develop multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions) as well as ensure team adheres to best practices and process Develop vision for team around roles and responsibilities, and structure team to ensure greatest impact, efficient use of resource, and alignment to business structures
• Devise and execute a comprehensive data strategy focusing on Data Quality dimensions via well-defined Functional Requirements for seamlessly technology implementation impacting multiple sectors.
• Manage Data Quality and Functional Requirements team across Services, Banking and Markets products.
• Interact with wide spectrum users (data producers, data consumers) to implement data operating model steps to resolve critical data issues with Finance reports e.g. Y14, RWA Basel, Treasury, Y9C etc.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to take forward data strategies and be engaged with them continuously to support new data demand onboarding to the Data fabric.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures given the scale of Citi's system and data landscape including data acquisition, CDO and technical teams, the ideal person will have very good mix of functional and technical skills to implement solution for data provisioning, data governance and data consumption for all regulatory and management reports.
• Validate detailed requirements, working through solutions and managing execution and rollout of these solutions. Responsible for the application meeting project specifications and client's expectations
• Ensure change is managed with appropriate controls, documentation, and approvals including implementation of new and revised regulatory reporting requirements
• Research and resolve issues, provide recommendations, and escalate to senior management as needed
• Work as function/product Lead with active role in handling stakeholders from CDO, Finance, Services, Banking and Markets businesses.
• Lead data governance engagements including lineage, defining DQ rules, reporting and analytics on data.
• Leading efforts for data remediation across Services, Banking and Markets products.
• Lead and deliver local staff forums, present global, regional, and location news and updates to engage team in the progress of organization
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years' experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), core data management, data quality and governance experience.
• 8-10+ years of managerial experience
• 8 + years of experience in Financial Services required.
• Demonstrate leadership in managing large and complex regulatory and data transformation programs.
• Good knowledge of Financial and Liquidity reports.
• Understanding of Wholesale products including Global Markets, Commercial Banking and Services.
• 5+ years with Business Analyst experience and be able to take technical and functional specifications documents written by technology teams.
• 5+ years defining use cases to articulate new functional software needs and the roles of each class of application usage.
• 2+years' experience with SharePoint, JIRA, and Confluence
• 5+ years' experience working with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI for reporting and metrics.
• Very strong written and oral executive communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of strategic direction of the function within relevant part of the business
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field