Assistant Vice President - Risk Assurance & Testing - Hybrid

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​In this role, you’re expected to:

Serve as a Risk Assurance & Testing Senior Analyst for the Finance Chief Risk Office (Finance CRO) BCBS 239 Independent Validation Team responsible for assessing compliance with BCBS 239 Principles by performing independent validation through evaluation of risks and controls implemented. The Global Finance CRO BCBS 239 Validation Team sits within Citi’s Independent Risk Management (IRM) function and perform second line oversight on key BCBS 239 regulatory and management reports.

The Risk Assurance & Testing Senior Analyst will experience of testing key controls and processes and have an understanding on how to assess the completeness and accuracy of data flowing into key reports to ensure compliance with regulatory instructions and internal risk management metrics. 

Responsibilities:

• Executing defined testing programs in accordance with the FINCRO BCBS 239 Testing Team’s Global annual testing plan with reviews impacting legal entities across Citi including, the US, Ireland, UK, Ireland, Singapore, Germany, and South Africa. 

• Participating in the planning, executing, and reporting of BCBS 239 testing reviews and issue validation activities to assess compliance with BCBS 239 requirements.

• Act as a Reviewer to evaluate the adequacy of key controls and work with Review Leads/Managers to discuss testing findings.

• Documentation of testing findings and having preliminary discussions with internal and Business stakeholders are required.

• Utilise innovative testing solutions including Data Analytics to evaluate data accuracy and completeness of the in-scope reports.

Experience:

• Overall 6+ years work experience

• Knowledge and experience with testing/auditing principles, particularly in the understanding of risk and controls, develop/execute testing strategy/approach, perform controls design and effectiveness testing and undertaking data transaction testing.

• Prior experience in testing key report regulatory rule conformance against regulatory requirements (such as BCBS 239, US Regulatory Reporting, European Regulatory Reporting and/or similar) is advantageous.

• Experience with data analysis and/or data mining, knowledge of SAS, SQL, MicroStrategy, Big Data or other analytics tools like R, Python, Tableau, Power BI to identify data anomalies.

• Strong interpersonal skills for building relationships with stakeholders, engaging teams and ability to work collaboratively with people at all levels of the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree; experience in compliance, internal controls testing, or other control-related function in a financial services firm, regulatory organization, or consulting firm.