Vice President - Cross-disciplinary Controls Lead Analyst

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Job Overview

We are currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Vice President - Cross-disciplinary Controls Lead Analystbased in Mumbai, India. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future.  For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.

• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.

• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.

Cross-disciplinary Controls Lead Analyst will be part of a wider global team responsible for establishing a risk governance and monitoring framework that ensures effective management of Sanctions issues’ life cycle, maintains risk levels within the firm's risk appetite and protects the franchise in a manner consistent with the Citi policies and risk framework.

• Participate in various remediation efforts, maintain governance and oversight for Services Operations Sanctions issues in all stages of issue lifecycle including, identification, evaluation, remediation, monitoring, reporting, closure and validation.

• Ensure adequate root cause analysis and definition of relevant Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) inline with SMART principles. Monitor effective and ontime execution of respective CAPs.

• Govern the closure and validation stages of CAPs in a standardized manner as per the methodology.

• Engage with the Services Operations and Business Seniors on sanctions matters including but not limited to Issue Management, Corrective Action Plans and monitoring of Key Risk Indicators and Trends.

• Participate in Issue/CAP and Metrics reporting processes.

• Assist in performing complex analyses of comparative data and monitoring trends to identify compliance related issues, managing escalations of issues (clients and internal) and ensuring all such issues are remediated in a sustainable manner.

• Minimize compliance related issues through proactive reviews of process, management of risk and control processes (e.g. lessons learnt mechanism, review of processes etc.), root cause analysis and embedding learnings across Services Operations.

• Serve as liaison with Internal Audit, and Compliance Assurance Teams on critical Compliance issues and oversees the implementation of related remediation. Collaborating with other internal areas including: ICRM Sanctions, Control Functions, and In-Business Risk to address compliance issues which may impact Services business, products and procedures and ensures learnings are deeply embedded across Operations teams.

• Assessment of complex issues, structuring potential solutions and driving effective resolution in partnership with stakeholders in Services Operations, Front Office, and ICRM Sanctions.

• Provide advice to the function/business/product on an ongoing basis on new initiatives, new processes, new products, and client-related matters with respect to applicability of policies, resolution of potential red flags or other client/transaction-related compliance escalations.

• Support sanctions initiatives as required, such as the implementation of new Compliance pocesses, detective and preventive controls, and related project management work efforts.

• Stay abreast of relevant changes to Citi sanctions policies, identifies impact of such changes on procedures and proactively works with Operations teams globally to adopt such changes in manner that is consistent with policies and is sustainable on the long run.

• Additional duties as assigned.

As a successful candidate, you would ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• 8+ years of relevant regional and/or global experience in a financial institution within audit, risk management and/or Sanctions functions.

• A Bachelor’s degree in in a relevant field. An advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA) OR certification / diploma in audit, risk management OR compliance would be a plus.

• Remarkable presentation and facilitation, strong interpersonal, influencing and written/verbal communications skills.

• Demonstrable ability to interact with senior management and key stakeholders.

• Experience with influencing cross functional teams, experience in handling policies, issues and remediation.

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize information, prioritize business goals and drive results with a high sense of urgency.

• Proven Analytical ability. Pragmatic problem solver, forward thinker with independence of thought.

• Ability to work in a complex environment and manage tight deadlines.