Finance Data Transformation and Regulatory Director

Citi • Jersey City, NJ

134d • $170,000 - $300,000

About The Position

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. The 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.
• 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.

Benefits

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees