The CAA professional is responsible for supporting financial reporting of various Institutional Client Group (ICG) Legal Entities and Segments within Citi, also supports Controllers in fulfilling responsibilities related to financial accountability, entity governance, policies and procedures.
Also, we facilitate the interaction with other key areas such as Close, Corporate Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, and Product Control.
This is a senior role that includes, but it is not limited, to some management related responsibilities, preparation and presentation of financial statements utilizing Inquiry Framework (reporting platform) or emerging technologies, monthly and quarterly variance analysis, and documenting financial highlights.
Coordination of external reporting to various agencies may be required, as well as interaction with internal and external audit.
The role also includes oversight to the month-end close process; create internal monthly, quarterly and annual reports, US GAAP compliance and collaborating on and/or leading special projects and initiatives.
This role also include supervisory responsibilities.
**Responsibilities**:
- Accountable for the end results of an area.
Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning.
Involved in short-to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area.
Comprehends Global Process landscape.
Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level
Engages senior stakeholders and identifies business reasons for significant variances
Summarizes impact of adjustments for senior stakeholder's review
Identifies, resolves and drives sustainable resolution of complex issues
Ability to explain principles behind accounting policies and related process flows
Define process changes to align with policy changes (including directives, etc.)
Create Financial Packages, including development, documentation, and presentation of highlights.
Provides detailed variance explanations with clear link to business drivers.
Conduct analytical deep dives on businesses, activities, and balances.
Reviews and analyzes variances and proposes required adjustments for completeness and accuracy.
Explains the financial and Market drivers for complex products and how they impact the relevant P&L and Balance Sheet components (i.e.
Structured Products, Derivatives, etc.)
Leverages Financial Services knowledge to be a thought leader supporting Business Partners with reporting, analytics, metrics and benchmarks to drive Process Improvement.
Identifies and explains errors and gaps in the process.
Proposes remediation steps for issues within non-complex processes.
Identifies areas of improvements within sub-processes.
Participates in global projects related to specific processes.
Identifies, resolves and drives sustainable resolution of complex issues.
Identifies and explains errors and gaps in the process.
Proposes remediation steps for issues within both non and complex processes.
Identifies areas of improvements within sub-processes; engages in periodic process reviews and drives process improvements identified.
Leverages business knowledge and experience in ensuring the accuracy of results.
Identifies opportunities to further facilitate efficiency, as well as, improve overall quality of analysis to support business reviews.
Evaluates team's control environment via comprehensive review of operational risk indicators.
Understands the interdependencies between the Legal Entities and Management structures and identifies transactions that are necessary to ensure compliance with appropriate policies.
**Knowledge/Experience**:
- Bachelors' degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Masters preferred CPA preferred 5+ years supervising experience
- Experience with structured products, derivatives or other financial instruments, and/or bank regulatory reporting is preferred Advance skill in Excel, Word, PowerPoint Project management experience preferred
- Advanced English proficiency (any other language is a plus)
- Fostering and developing teams in distributed geographic environments
**Skills**
- Commitment to detail
- Culture of awareness, attention to detail and zero operational errors in the group Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills
- Leadership and team building skills are vital; must have the ability to guide staff through change management initiatives
- Adaptability to change
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
- Is comfortable making presentations in a formal setting
- Strong vocal leadership, is articulate and assertive
- Further develops a diverse financial talent pool, that can meet the demands of a growing team
- Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work with all levels of management
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Strong networking
- Strong influence across organization
- Strong negotiation skills
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- **Job Family Group**:
Finance
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