Finance Solutions Lead Analyst

• Contributes to the design, roll-out and governance of financial solutions
• Participates in formulating and setting strategic direction for the process, organization and architecture covering Finance across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations
• Assists in setting business and information architecture standards for Finance
• Plays a part in settling and operating necessary forums and frameworks to establish and govern policies and starts for global Finance processes
• Participates in assessing and incorporating changing business, regulatory and market information needs into finance processes and applications
• Acts as a technical expert who acts as an advisor on significant business/product decisions
• Implements policies and procedures
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members
• Appropriately assesses 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
• Partner with business Controller teams in drafting Issues and Corrective Action Plans
• Recommend action plans for identified risks and deficient or missing controls
• Partners with stakeholders to develop approaches for broader corporate/local issues
• Responsible for coordination and agreement of the period to be pre-validated for sustainability with Issue owners
• The role may require collaboration with different business areas to identify root cause and drive improvements across the organization
• Ability to work in close liaison and coordination with business stakeholders and sponsors to elicit, analyze, communicate, plan, manage, validate, and prioritize requirements and build strong professional relationship
• Establish agreements with Internal Audit and internal stakeholders on CAP artifacts required for closure & sustainability
• Review issues cited in audit reports (internal and external)
• Monitor execution of corrective action plans through active engagement with Issue owners throughout Issue lifecycle to ensure issues are closed timely and sustainably
• Support Control Metrics process and improvement
• Keep abreast of internal policy changes to further identify new key risk areas impactful to current open issues
• Promoting a strong control culture to facilitate timely escalation of significant risks through control governance channels
• Support Issue Management process, including review of Issues sent to Internal Audit, ORM and Compliance for validation
• Support ORM and Compliance Review and Challenge process
• Review and challenge of issues and corrective action plans in internal and external audit reports prior to report finalization
• Agree sustainability and CAP artifacts to be sent to IA to support Issue closure
• Ensure issues have senior ownership according to Issue Management Policy
• Perform other risk and control activities as required
• Assist with execution of key policies and procedures, including Operational Risk Management, Records Management, Continuity of Business and Third-Party Management, among others
• Work as trusted advisor to Finance Controllers on drafting Issues and formulating action plans to mitigate risks and remediate control deficiencies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the end-to-end process, identify risks, and recommend risk management strategies
• Analyze root cause of control breaks and gaps
• Provide guidance on remediation actions
• Assess sustainability requirements, dependencies and artifacts to close for corrective action plans
• Monitor and track the progress of corrective action plans
• Identify and mitigate roadblocks and escalate any risk to effective and timely delivery
• Ability to work in close coordination with business stakeholders and build strong relationships to analyze, plan and validate corrective action plans
• Keep abreast of internal policy changes to further identify new key risk areas impactful to current open issues
• Promoting a strong control culture to facilitate timely escalation of significant risks through control governance channels
• Review and challenge of issues and corrective action plans in internal and external audit reports prior to report finalization
• Agree sustainability and CAP artifacts to be sent to IA to support Issue closure
• Ensure issues have senior ownership according to Issue Management Policy
• Perform other risk and control activities as required.

• 6-10+ years of relevant experience
• Recognized technical authority for an area within the business
• Requires communication and diplomacy skills in order to guide and influence others
• Experience and demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a complex and dynamic environment
• Self-motivated with the ability to make decisions in the absence of detailed instructions
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills
• In-depth knowledge of banking products / systems preferred
• CPA preferred
• Bachelor's degree, potentially Master's degree
• Advanced English level
• Ability to communicate simply, clearly, and concisely both verbally and in writing, fluently in English and Spanish
• Audit experience in an accounting or financial services firm
• Good understanding of financial products, businesses, reporting systems, internal audit processes
• Knowledge of digital tools (e.g. Knime, Python, BOTs) desired
• Proven skills in problem solving, competing priorities management, negotiation, project management and organizational structure
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy
• Personable and reliable self-starter who requires minimal management oversight for day-to-day work responsibilities
• Highly motivated and able to adapt to changing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to be detail-oriented and manage multiple competing priorities including emerging risks to deliver solutions in an effective control environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to deal with colleagues at all levels across the Firm
• Ability to gain consensus and influence others across disparate functions, products, and geographies
• Strong presentation skills.

Knowledge of digital tools (e.g. Knime, Python, BOTs) desired