assistant Vice President - team lead of automation and technology rapid response teamCitigroup

The Business Risk Manager provides full leadership and supervisory responsibility. Provides operational/service leadership and direction to team(s). Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge through provision of value-added perspectives or advisory services. May contribute to the development of new techniques, models and plans within area of expertise. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Generally has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness of end results and shared responsibility for planning and budgets. Work affects an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family. Full supervisory responsibility, ensuring motivation and development of team through professional leadership to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations as well as direction of daily tasks and responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
Partners with the team on all new or modified processes to review through the appropriate governance routines and launch with adequate controls which can be monitored and reported.
Ensures internal reviews and external examinations are well managed with clearly evidenced controls.
Provided support of assigned business area by attending and participating in business meeting routines to provide control related updates to the team and learn about any new initiatives the team will need to support.
Pro-actively identifies emerging risks and assists the control team with resolving control gaps and issues and helps to create corrective action plans, inclusive of root cause identification and resolution.
Ad hoc control / audit related requests as needed.
Support the business on Manager Control Assessment (MCA), Quarterly Risk Assessment and the Annual Risk Assessment process.
Actively focus on process improvement, creating efficiencies, and ensuring proactive approach and partnership to audit management
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications:
5-8 years of relevant experience
Outstanding leadership, communication, and influencing skills as this leader will work with Sr leaders, and audit partners on a regular basis. Relevant experience in financial services, with enhanced knowledge of the Branded Cards business preferred.
Project management and governance experience with demonstrated ability to achieve and exceed critical milestones.
Must have ability to foster working relationships with other leaders across multiple lines of business and with support organizations including auditors and regulators.
Demonstrated judgement and critical thinking skills.
Education:
Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience
Markets and Securities Services CSC Manila is an integral part of the Senior Business Management team in Markets & Securities Services. The function of the team is to maintain the control environment within the business where appropriate, to oversee enhancements and to formulate processes to address various internal and external control policies.
The team lead role will be closely coordinating with other members of the MSS Risk and Control teams and Business Managers globally.
Perform a team lead role for Automation and Technology Rapid Response (ATRR) team to initiate and execute various automation projects that aims to elevate the team's efficiency on controls execution and Business manager support activities.
Assess information security risk inherent to the team's automation initiatives.
Manage communication and coordination of the support functions within Markets and Securities Services
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Maintain and monitor the controls environment
Develop best practice procedures within Markets and Securities Services.
Present controls developments to senior management
Identify and spearhead process improvement initiatives
Assists in ad-hoc reports and special projects as needed
Trains, coaches or guides junior staff members, when required
Development Value
Global Markets is a global leader in underwriting, structuring, and trading across all asset classes, including equities, corporate bonds, government and agency bonds, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, syndicated loans, structured and futures products. Successful candidate will benefit from joining a global team of Markets and Securities Services Risk and Control professionals. Massive opportunity to gain product and process knowledge in different regional businesses, as well as direct exposure to internals partners and stakeholders, as well as external clients.
Additional Job Specification
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or Accounting.
Knowledge and experience
Prior experience in VBA is a must.
Relevant experience in advanced programming (Python and Java) and usage of various tools such as Xceptor, JIRA, Confluence, Tableau and Power BI is preferred.
Relevant experience in financial services Operational Risk Management or related discipline
Ability to work across support functions and in consultation with business control specialists in other regions and products is essential
Prior experience in people management
A strong understanding of MSS business, associated processes and controls
Strong Microsoft Office Suite, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint skills
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to influence senior stakeholders
Ability to interact successfully with multicultural/virtual teams
Skills and competencies
Highly motivated and able to self-identify emerging issues and develop responses
Work on own initiative
Ability to prioritize multiple tasks based on materiality
Strong knowledge of risk and controls
A strong team player possessing leadership traits
Able to multitask by carrying a diverse and complex workload
Possesses creativity and uses initiative, can develop new processes towards improvement of controls
Flexible and open to new tasks
Job Family Group: Risk Management
Job Family: Business Risk & Controls
Time Type: Full time
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Citigroup

Taguig City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time