The Risk & Control Analyst is a role within the LATAM Finance Controls Initiatives team, part of Latam Controllers.
The team serves as trusted control advisors who promote and assist in embedding strong internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting in Finance.
The team delivers timely, accurate & insightful control analytics to ensure proper attention to remediation efforts, and to strengthen the control environment.
This role is a critical control role that assist in supporting Finance teams across the region in the end to end External Audit process.
It provides an outstanding opportunity to work with Finance, Audit and other cross functional teams to strengthen our external audit process.
It also provides an excellent opportunity to work closely with country Finance teams on controls and regulatory reporting governance.
**Responsibilities include**:
- Responsible for coordinating and facilitating external audits
- Responsible for executing annual ongoing validation of GRITT Inventory for Finance owned Regulatory Reports in centralized countries in Latam
- Assist with execution of key policies and procedures, including Operational Risk Management, Records Management, Continuity of Business and Third-Party Management for Country Finance.
- Support other control activities such as the consolidation of Finance related matters to be presented in the country BRCC, Citi Operating Expense Governance Committee or any other forum.
- Serves as back up for Managers Control Assessment (MCA) for Country Finance.
- Identifies and resolves problems using judgment.
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
Proactively identifies emerging risks and assists Country's Controller and CFO with resolving control gaps and issues and helps to create quality corrective action plans, including understanding root cause of the issue.
**Knowledge/Experience**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Accounting/Business Administration
- Chartered Accountant, Audit, and/or IFRS certification is a big plus
- Experience in an accounting or financial services firm
- Experience with the implementation, administration, and monitoring of Control policies
- Good understanding of financial products, businesses, reporting systems, internal audit processes
- Working with multiple stakeholders and in an organization with a matrix management structure a plus
- Knowledge of Digital tools such as PowerBI, Knime or Appian a plus.
- Fluent English & Spanish language skills, written and oral (Portuguese a plus)
**Skills**:
- Ability to communicate simply, clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, adjusting style to suit the audience
- Excellent analytical and technical writing skills to document control issues, findings and corrective action plans.
- Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to deal with colleagues at different levels across the Firm
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills
- Ability to initiate and manage change
- Ability to solve problems and articulate potential solutions.
- Good negotiation skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
**Competencies**:
- Ambitious and hardworking
- Willing to learn
- Be a team player
- Positive and proactive work style
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed.
Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
- **Job Family Group**:
Finance
- **Job Family**:
Financial Reporting
- **Time Type**:
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