The Business Risk Officer is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing and supporting multiple risk and control programs for the organization including defining the strategy, approach, processes, quality, tools and reporting that provide global risk management consistency and excellence.
- Establishes quarterly, annual (and ad-hoc, as needed) control process reviews aligned with Operational Risk Management (ORM) guidelines across underlying assessment units and partner units to evaluate and assess overall control efficacy; determine areas of opportunity and drive change through automation and simplification.
- Works closely with control and business partners on findings and makes recommendations on corrective action plans to improving practices.
- Manage and participate in various regulatory and strategic initiatives, including the Regulatory Inventory Management (RIM), focused on ensuring regulatory compliance and strengthening control processes
- Develops procedural implementation, controls and change management process with appropriate teams to ensure proper governance and controls exist.
- Examines procedures for consistency and gaps relative to regulations in addition to impacts on customer experience.
- Conducts internal testing and reporting of various assessment unit key control processes to ensure effective control environment.
- Monitors exceptions to drive appropriate process, procedure or technology changes through identification of drivers of exceptions.
- Appropriately assess activities, risk, controls and monitoring (ARCMs) using established criteria 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. Focus will be on designing controls and monitoring using a 100% exception based model.
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years relevant work experience in Business Risk & Controls
- GRC/MCA, MS Excel, MS Access, SAS, SQL, Visual Basic a plus. 5+ years’ experience in financial services.
- Ability to organize and facilitate reviews with senior stakeholders and control partners
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- Effective organizational influencing skills required.
- Excellent problem solving skills Ability to see the big pictures with high attention to critical details
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
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Job Family Group:
Risk Management-
Job Family:
Business Risk & Controls-
Time Type:
Full time-
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