This Institutional Client Group (ICG) Finance Transformation team will play a critical role in achieving ICG Finance and Citi Finance's transformation agenda. The team reports to the ICG CFO, and collaborates closely with partners across ICG Finance, as well as the Capital Planning group, Corporate FP&A team, and Finance Transformation Office. Additionally, as the ICG representatives in various working groups and forums designing and executing the end state vision for forecasting transformation, the team will play a critical role in scoping key business requirements for planning and forecasting cycles, and ensuring the tools (models, planning infrastructure/technology, analytical tools, etc.) are available to deliver robust business plans at various levels of the organization.
The FP&A Group Manager will play a key role in Citi's shift to a more dynamic and integrated expense planning process. We aim to improve the quality and efficiency of strategic and operational planning while reducing cycle time and effort. Our goal is to provide management with more accurate and timely information that enables better decision making.
**Responsibilities**:
- Help complete a re-examination of the end to end expense forecasting cycle —spanning people, process, capabilities, and infrastructure. An initial focus will be on the analysis and redesign of elements of the forecasting cycle, engaging senior Finance managers to understand problem use cases, identify process simplifications and improvements, and work to gain consensus on approach while maintaining a well governed process.
- Identify and incorporate key data and operational dependences across expense categories for each of the ICG products. Support the testing of alternate approaches and help identify the most accurate approach.
- Influence the adoption of new processes and capabilities by working through business, technology, and finance partners. Act as key liaison and provide client focused support to business FP&A teams as they adopt new capabilities and implement improvements to the process.
- Manage multiple project deliverables including identifying necessary resources and developing a schedule to meet completion deadlines
- Implement short
- and long-term enhancements to the ICG business planning model library, including the development, documentation, and validation process around driver-based forecasting models.
- Work closely with Model Risk Management to ensure successful model validation
- Escalate key transformation execution risks and help identify and take mitigating actions
- Represent ICG in Citi-wide and Finance Transformation forums to drive outcomes and communication
- May include directly managing team members locally and remotely, mentoring and developing team members across ICG P&A, and partnering with other teams locally and across the globe; requires the ability to effectively communicate across all levels
- Build professional relationships with stakeholders and become a trusted advisor to Finance counterparts
- Opportunity to interact with senior management (within finance and the business), which requires excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills
**Qualifications**:
- 8-10+ years of relevant experience; experience within financial services preferred
- 6+ years of managerial experience preferred
- An understanding of financial modeling, data visualization and analytics
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across a wide range of global stakeholders with various levels of seniority
- Effective communication skills, ability to convey clear and simple messages with a focus on what matters to drive impact
- Innovative, lateral thinker - solutions focused in solving problems and overcoming roadblocks
- Agile and flexible, resetting priorities as appropriate
- Strong analytical and demonstrated problem solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment
- Advanced Engl
**Education**:
- Bachelors degree in Finance or another quantitative discipline
- Master degree preferred
- **Job Family Group**:
Finance
- **Job Family**:
Financial Planning & Analysis
- **Time Type**:
Full time
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