The Finance Acctg Group Manager is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas.
Leads and directs a team of professionals.
Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function.
Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions.
Strong commercial awareness is a necessity.
Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions.
Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level.
Some external communication may be necessary.
Accountable for the end results of an area.
Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning.
Primarily affects a sub-function.
Involved in short
- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area.
Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.
**Responsibilities**:
- Stakeholder Management - Treasury, Controllers, FRSS, etc
- Report post mortem results in governance forums
- Responsible to route Consolidated Strategic Remediation Plan to the Data Controller team
- Oversees the entire Daily Recon process (Audits - Guidance - Escalations)
- Liaise with remediation teams on breaks
- Monitor Case Management Process Resolution and Aging
- Reviews and ensures all case management items are registered in DCRM
- Change management process
- Ensuring that financial controls are in place for all key processes and that any control weaknesses are appropriately addressed and escalated.
- Understand the impact of new requirements and comply with new control requirements.
- Establish consistent processes and a strong control environment, review procedures and MCA assessments.
- Ensure country PRC is appropriate and up to date and review ARA on annual basis with key stakeholders.
- Ensure control issues are effectively identified and escalated.
- Identify and evaluate design and operating control deficiencies; and ensure that control issues are effectively identified and escalated.
- Ensure that there is a resolution plan for all identified and escalated issues.
- Prepare control guidelines and train controllers on how to apply.
- Review on regular basis all Minimum Requirements to make sure they performed in line with ARA.
- Focus on and co-ordinate deep dives (in-depth reviews) across business areas and countries, to identify control deficiencies, best practice and consistency of approach; Document results of the evaluation and propose and drive implementation of solutions to correct deficiencies.
- Ensure regular month end file reviews are taking place in order to identify any control gaps.
- Coordinate Audit preparation work with countries.
- Ensure general controls which are not finance division specific, but applicable to entire finance are coordinated and reviewed on regular bases (e.g.
EERS, COB, ICSA, EUC).
- Monitoring of CAPs/IMR's.
**Qualifications**:
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Professional qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with a wide range of people across different functions and levels of seniority.
Analytical skills are a must.
Ability to manage and lead a team.
Be able to work independently w
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter who proactively seeks to improve existing controls and streamline processes both from a tactical short term viewpoint, and also from a strategic long term perspective
- Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred
- Advanced English
- **Job Family Group**:
Finance
- **Job Family**:
Financial Accounting
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
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