Program Management Advisory and Execution AVP

Program Management Advisory and Execution AVP

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in supporting initiatives, programs and/or projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Technical proficiencies in MS office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
• Must be able to work at designated Citi location 3 days / week.
• Demonstrated strong organizational, time management and process management skills necessary to maintain high volume workload.

Responsibilities

• Support and participate in complex initiatives and all activities in a project/program life cycle such as initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing associated with projects/programs.
• Own and execute core PM processes; drive individual workstreams; continually improve the process and educate PM team and stakeholders on process requirements and enhancements.
• Drive program risk/assumptions/issues/dependency + change management; maintain program level risk/issue log; ensure timely issue identification, escalation of risks, and actionable remediation solutions; proactively review plan content and changes to aid in identification, impact analysis and mitigation of risks and issues.
• Lead the execution of defined PM processes for program/project.
• Support dependency identification and management.
• Develop progress dashboards at executive level based on analysis of plans and risk.
• Actively maintain project/program plans and drive successful completion of project tasks and/or milestones.
• Manage critical program documentation including governance charts, charters, RACI charts, communication plans, and metrics.
• Leverage Citi PM tools to support effective program delivery; educate PM teams and stakeholders on use of PM tools.
• Ensure compliance with Citi’s project policies and standards and maintain compliance repositories.
• Support, challenge and drive program-level progress and status reporting process.
• Own and create reporting cadence to align with management reporting and meeting deliverables.
• Review status reports submitted for relevancy, correctness, and provide challenge to content with the submitter to enable quality reporting.
• Analyze documentation, data and metrics provided to identify risk, performance and quality issues and significant variances and trends and develop reports for senior management.
• Generate metrics as needed (e.g., plans and reporting) to demonstrate progress against objectives.
• Assist in the documentation of meetings and in the tracking and timely resolution of outcomes and follow-up actions.
• Drive accountability and engagement.
• Provide transparency by interfacing with Org PMO, Citi Program Management Council, Internal Audit, Consultants, and other groups outside of PMAE for the gathering and sharing of information.
• Maintain alignment to the approved engagement strategy.
• Execute active risk management with complete impact assessments and actionable mitigation plans. Forecast and make risk actionable for our stakeholders.
• Own data quality and ensures output is in alignment with controls environment.
• Escalate appropriately, completely and with solution options.
• Maintain compliance with PM procedures.
• Proactively and appropriately offer 3rd party objectivity and challenge to plans, strategy, timelines, and risk.
• Effectively prioritize as needed while handling multiple time sensitive projects in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience in a large corporation, within the financial sector is a plus.
• Finance or accounting experience as a plus.
• Experience with enterprise program management tools.