Citi's Finance Division is comprised of various global functions, including: Citi Ventures, M&A, Treasury, Controllers, Balance Sheet Substantiation, Financial Projects & Initiatives, and Financial Planning & Analysis.
The Finance Division is the guardian and communicator of key financial information and controls.
As a partner with Citi's various businesses, Citi Finance drives business franchise and legal entity decisions on capital planning, liquidity, budgeting, tax, strategic direction and policy management.
**Global FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)** supports Citi CFO, CEO, Senior Management and Board of Directors by developing forward looking insight along with performance measurement and assessment which combined drives enhanced decision making to optimize performance.
The FP&A Global Process Owner (GPO) team is responsible for global process execution and transformation spanning strategic planning and performance management.
This position will play a key role in defining and delivering performance measurement standards across Citi, leveraging governance through Citi Executive Scorecards as well as CEO and CFO business review processes.
This is a highly visible role, providing an opportunity for an experienced finance professional to directly impacting how Citi is managed.
**Responsibilities Include**:
- Collaborate across businesses and functions to improve identification, quantification, measurement, reporting and governance of performance measurements.
- Partner with Finance, Business and Function stakeholders to lead the annual review of Scorecard metrics across Citi for performance management.
- Develop coherent communication strategy and framework utilizing state of the art tools and techniques
- Establish global standards for key performance metrics and ensure consistent usage and reporting across planning, review and performance management processes
- Lead strategic direction with focus on driving change, immediate improvements, strategic and remediation projects in order to reduce risk, increase efficiency and enhance data performance.
- Manage projects geared towards strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of controls environment.
- Identify and drive Scorecard and related performance management process improvement opportunities in partnership with the Scorecard team, technology and HR
- Enhance the existing controls framework that strengthens the control environment through identification of controls gaps, perform root cause analysis and drive technology and process solutions to remediate
- Lead the strategic and tactical automation projects, including scoping, design, implementation and quality assurance of implementation activities taking into account the detailed data requirements across diverse business and functions systems
- Gain senior level buy-in to approaches and plans for implementing business process and infrastructure change
- Accountable for the successful delivery of change in line with overall programmed objectives and timescales
- Identify, priorities and proactively manage risks, exceptions and issues
- Reporting of status, risks and issues to senior management Lead the development of production KPIs, used to track production operations and MCA monitoring
- Define and ensure completeness and consistency of standard output templates for documentation.
- Uses excellent communication skills to influence senior stakeholders and generate support in a matrix reporting environment for key initiatives
- Directly engages on detailed issues as well as identifies and mitigates broader issues and risks
The role will involve daily interaction with other managers throughout the global organization, including but not limited to Directors and/or Managing Directors of Finance, trading desks, corporate and consumer banking, risk management, internal audit, compliance, business unit management teams.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree required, Finance and /or Accounting degree preferred;
- Advanced degree, Professional Accounting qualification and/or CFA a big plus;
- Minimum 7 years related business experience required;
- Must have excellent knowledge in accounting fundamentals, project management and financial modeling
- A control focused mind-set with strong process improvement capabilities.
Must be able to evaluate relative control risks and develop creative solutions
- Able to determine strategic direction and influence the control framework
- Good understanding of regulations
- Ability to manage a team and work effectively under pressure in a rapidly changing environment
- An ability to influence senior stakeholders and generate support in a matrix reporting environment for key initiatives
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to directly engage on detailed issues but also an ability to absorb summary data to identify and mitigate broader issues and risks
- Motivated, organized, and team oriented
**Competencies**
- Structured prog