VP – Financial Solutions Lead Analyst – Controllers Transformation

VP – Financial Solutions Lead Analyst – Controllers Transformation

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience, within Finance, Regulatory Reporting, infrastructure transformation, Big Data, project management implementation or related field, in the financial services industry required
• Analytical, flexible, team-oriented, with strong attention to detail
• Exceptional analytical, strategic and problem-solving skills coupled with a strong and broad-based finance and internal control skills and attention to detail
• A proven track record of process transformations, including technology integration. Able to identify and drive change by thinking ‘out of the box’. Strong and demonstrated execution skills
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and influencing skills coupled with an ability to build a broad base of support among key decision makers at all levels of the organization. Demonstrated success in collaborating and building relationships and influencing across the organization.
• Experience and demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a complex and dynamic environment. Self-motivated with the ability to make decisions in the absence of detailed instructions.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Partner with Global Regulatory Reporting and Technology teams in the development of the strategic capabilities for Reporting Data Hub as part of the Insight reporting infrastructure.
• Collect and clarify user requirements, review Jira User stories, work with Scrum Teams developers, UAT test features and capabilities, and resolve issues and defects.
• Act as strategic reporting subject matter expert responsible for communicating processes and functional requirements to technology teams in order to drive improvements in the regulatory reporting process.
• Attend working group sessions, various planning, and review sessions to identify and facilitate creation of detailed action plans and commitments to meet Onboarding plan targets.
• Participate in the analysis and development of both tactical and strategic remediation plans to address specific gaps in the Consent Order analysis.
• Engage in cross-functional working groups among Infrastructure modules – RDH, SRA, and RW -to facilitate prioritizations and seamless transformation of key reporting functions.
• Communicate dependencies between technology, operations, and implementation teams to successfully implement process and related system transformations.
• Develop and implement standardized and efficient end-to-end reporting processes for activities associated with US and Local regulatory reporting.
• Transform disparate processes into a streamlined, standardized and best-in-class global process, while understanding the requisite level of detail required for successful implementations. This includes the removal of legacy process and system silos.
• Partner with technology leaders to prioritize and align technology roadmaps to process improvement plans for US and Local regulatory reporting.
• Execute on activities assigned per project plan and escalate potential issues identified in working group sessions.
• Responsible for action item execution and operationalization in alignment with plans
• Maintain constant dialog with Project Management to highlight issues with the overall action plans.
• Support Report Onboarding activities and transformation processes in Insight.
• In the transition period, assist users with future state infrastructure as go-live is rolled out.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Citi’s Finance organization and processes that span geographic, functional and business perspectives a plus.
• Project management experience, Agile project management, Scrum methodology desirable