Location: All cities,NY, USA
Senior Risk Manager - Quality Control:
Contract: Through December 2024
General Responsibilities:
Partner with issue owners and teams to provide guidance, challenge and quality assurance on the approach to pass IA and Regulatory scrutiny.
Facilitate execution of the Challenge and Quality Review Framework (1st LoD self-assessment), through engagement and credible challenge with senior stakeholders, 2nd and 3rd LoD
Drive compliance of the QC Framework with Accountable Executives and Issue Owners
Provide guidance to issue owners on how to best represent a reduction of risk and issue remediation that will pass the scrutiny of IA validation and regulatory review
Provide an independent initial assessment and challenge on the remediation and evidence artifacts
Work with stakeholders to drive challenge to ensure strategic deliveries meet the letter and spirit of management, regulator, Compliance or IA concerns
Build strong relationships with key stakeholders including issue owners, governance/policy owners, and program leads for intersecting work efforts
Execute against multiple competing priorities simultaneously
Ensure risks and issues are raised in a timely manner and in accordance with Citi policy
Ensure all programs understand regulatory feedback and expectations, underlying concerns, and their root causes to make sure their commitments are complete
Provide review and challenge of each programs defined scope, assessed gap, target state, and success criteria to ensure it fully addresses the letter and the spirit of the regulatory feedback, broader supervisory expectations and underlying issues and root causes
Identify related and interdependent program elements and provide feedback and input to ensure consistency of review and challenge implementation according to developed guidelines
Review policies and risk frameworks
Governance and project management
Be proactive and self-motivated in driving quality and timely reviews/assessments end-to-end.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree; major in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business Administration preferred
12+ years of progressive experience in the financial services industry; experience in Risk Management, Internal Audit; Knowledge and understanding of regulatory and risk management in the financial services industry.
Experience working for a Regulator highly desirable.
A critical thinker who seeks to understand the business and its control environment.
Recent experience in managing or leading audits and/or quality assurance reviews for a banking institution is preferred.
Proven leadership and project management skills to drive alignment across stakeholder groups to review and challenge repeatable end-to-end risk management solutions and controls aligned with policies, framework and processes.
Deep understanding of risk framework, corporate/business policies, and programs to translate into plans for the business, function and/or risk type.
Demonstrated ability to understand effective and efficient risk controls and gaps within large organizations.
Develop influential relationships based upon shared risk objectives and trust to deliver outstanding business impact and elevate teams value proposition.
Ability to work as a member of a team where success is defined not only on individual performance but also that of the entire team.
Excellent communication skills; ability to articulate deadlines and deliverables clearly to senior members of organization
Experience advising and collaborating with cross-functional internal & external stakeholders.
Lead through change with candor and optimism
Effective negotiation skills
Education:
Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred.
Skill Sets:
Data Governance
Data Quality Management
Data Lineage & Tracing
Risk Data Testing
Data Architecture
Data Quality Strategy
Risk Management Skills