International - Business Risk and Control - C11, Officer - Mumbai

Citi’s Banking division provides comprehensive relationship coverage and a full suite of products and services in an effort to be the best possible financial partner to its Institutional Clients. Citi leverages the breadth of its unmatched global network to meet clients’ debt capital raising needs and to provide merger and acquisition and equity-related strategic financing solutions. By serving these companies, we help them grow, creating jobs and economic value at home and in communities worldwide.

Quality Assurance, Monitoring & Testing Intermediate Analyst position is part of Mumbai IBRC team which works with Global Business Risk partners based in the regional hubs (NY, London, Hong Kong etc.). The individual will work on various Risk identification, Assessment, Monitoring, KYC and Surveillance programs as a First Line of Defense function.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

In-Business Risk is part of Risk and Control with primary responsibility of monitoring policy adherence and regulatory requirements. Team evaluates/monitors risks in the business operations, systems and processes by identifying, assessing and controlling threats to business.

We are looking for a full-time team member. The general tasks would include:

• Working on Global Business Risk processes that includes actioning various types of Enititlement reviews, Data surveillance (includes emails, portable media, print and network activities), Regulatory inventory mapping, MCA, Evaluation and tracking of bankers’ registrations, Tracking and follow-ups on Mandatory trainings etc.
• Engage with both regional and global stakeholders across various teams for the roll-out of new processes and maintain process consistency across regions and product lines and participate in the appropriate forums.
• Allocate work as per criticality, availability and supervise activities to completion
• Will need to be flexible in timings as this includes working closely with managers and regional Business Risk sponsors/partners to ensure their requests/updates are completed in a timely manner and quality assurance is maintained at all times
• Assisting Regional partners on various ad-hoc projects
• Assist Managers/Supervisors with the accurate data preparation on audit related queries
• Build a strong workflow system to deliver Client ready output
• Training team members, Quality Check and smooth functioning and strengthening of day-to-day operations

The ideal candidate should have minimum 8 - 10 years of relevant experience (Data Surveillance / Risk & Control / Operational Risk / Compliance / Information Security / Internal Audit), managing team and possess proficiency in clear and concise written and verbal communications.

Required Interpersonal Skills:

• Demonstrable relevant experience in Financial Services and or within control functions
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Good judgement and analytical skills
• Awareness of Citi’s basic Compliance policies and should maintain confidentiality (For internal candidate)
• Ability to work independently
• Strong relationship/partner skills, with the ability to coordinate with individuals from different departments, functions, geographies, or backgrounds
• Pragmatic problem-solver with ability to identify and remediate root causes
• Self-motivated, highly adaptive, detail oriented, and demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while still maintaining attention to detail and accuracy
• Organized, efficient and able to multi-task
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel with the ability to perform data analysis to assist in delivering and reporting management information and key metrics

• Whenever required, must be able to work well under pressure and to prioritize workload in order to deliver results in timely manner ensuring the quality is maintained

Required Technical Skills:

• Should be well versed with MS-Office, preferably with advanced MS-Excel skills

Education

• Bachelor’s/ University degree or equivalent professional qualification
• Additional certificates in Risk / Information Security will be preferred