The Finance and Risk Shared Services (FRSS) Expense and Productivity Manager is the trusted advisor of the senior management, supporting the decision-making process by providing business insights, conducting analysis on the expense base, and identifying areas of focus across FRSS process groups and geographies.
This senior role is involved strategically in the planning and execution of FRSS priorities related to productivity and expense management.
Primary responsibility is the end-to-end productivity reporting processes for FRSS, including the consolidation, quality assurance, analysis, presentation, and discussion of productivity to the senior management.
Also, this key role provides high-valued insights by analyzing trends, developing metrics, preparing forecasts, and performing analyses to support business decisions.
**Key responsibilities include but are not limited to**:
- Use expense and cost data to make recommendations, influencing strategic decision-making and planning.
Independently align financial and operational analyses with your business partners, challenging business partner assumptions when necessary.
- Owns the end-to-end FRSS productivity reporting process, including but not limited to the consolidation, quality assurance, analysis, presentation, and discussion of productivity to the senior management (monthly review).
- Ensure reporting accuracy and compliance with internal policies, including monitor accuracy, understand drivers of variances, and provide insightful commentary & analysis for both current period and future periods.
- Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build expense and productivity models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and may have global impact
- Partner and influence the stakeholders on the definition of strategic management of headcount
- Manage risk, being able to identify process gaps and implement the controls to address them.
Implements opportunities to simplify processes.
- Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and modeling.
Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives
**Qualifications**:
- Finance degree or related field
- 6 to 8 years of experience in financial expense management and analysis, reporting
- Advance in English, fully fluent communication with proven experience managing executive level communications
- Superior financial reporting and analysis.
Modeling is a plus.
- Detail-oriented, well-organized
- Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with business partners
- Fluency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with finance reporting tools
- Ability to work independently, readily adapt to and lead through changing environment
- Proven expertise managing, evaluating, analyzing data quickly and creating meaningful business reporting
- Experience presenting data to senior executives
- **Job Family Group**:
Business Strategy, Management & Administration
- **Job Family**:
Strategy & Development
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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