Business Risk and Control Specialist

5 days ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Citigroup Global Markets Limited Full time
About the Role

Citigroup Global Markets Limited is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as a Business Risk and Control Specialist. This is a senior management role within our Markets Ops COO organization, responsible for leading the Governance function and ensuring we have appropriate controls, governance, and frameworks in place to maintain policy adherence and oversight.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead a global team of controls and oversight specialists to review, define, and oversee end-to-end governance frameworks and administration for the business.
  • Develop and administer effective governance frameworks that meet Audit, Compliance, and Regulatory requirements.
  • Deliver periodic presentations to Senior Forums as required.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline and re-align processes to ensure an optimal organizational structure for best-in-class risk management of governance functions.
  • Participate in senior regulatory governance forums as required.
  • Help drive comprehensive KPIs/Metrics for senior executive consumption.
  • Analyze metrics for trends and lessons learned.
  • Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand and update governance, frameworks, controls, challenges, and potential solutions and present opportunities to senior Management.
Transformation to Target State
  • Lead a team to review our processes, governance, and suite of controls and suggest change to uplift the risk profile throughout the Organisation.
  • Drive standardization of processes, governance, and frameworks across regions and suggest opportunities for harmonization across teams.
  • Implement plans and execute vs milestones ensuring we meet deadlines and regulatory commitments.
  • Ensure our infrastructure and tools meet the needs in order to manage risk.
  • Develop and suggest operating model changes in order to pivot the Operations organization towards digitization and a robust control environment.
  • Partner with Business, 1st, and 2nd lines of defense to review governance frameworks and conduct a gap analysis relative to current state.
  • Liaise with SMEs to agree on required remediation and monitor completion of actions.
  • Perform a read across to ensure enhancements are implemented across all applicable teams/regions.
People Agenda
  • Implement a successful People and Engagement strategy to help attract, develop, retain, and recognize a diverse and talented workforce.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement and cultivating a robust service and control environment.
  • Engage with and lead our People. Develop effective and diverse teams across a global footprint.
  • Coach and mentor our People. Ensure effective one-to-one discussions. Provide direction, feedback, support, and encouragement for career development.
  • Champion diversity and inclusion to create a working environment which allows our People to thrive and excel.

This role provides a range of opportunities to impact and influence the overall target state design and implementation of our strategic priorities, including strategically positioning the Operations organization, implementing best practices and global consistency, simplifying and standardizing processes, controls, and flows, and empowering decision-making and driving a strategy.

Requirements
  • Relevant Regulatory, Risk, and Controls experience in a Financial Services Firm.
  • Prior equivalent work experience preferred.
  • Significant experience related to operations or capital markets preferred and people management experience.
  • Experience delivering strategic change programs in a fast-paced, large global financial services firm.
  • Strong people manager and experience leading global teams, including hiring, training, mentoring, and developing team members.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
  • Strong risk management and control mindset.
  • Self-reliant, good problem solver, results-oriented.
  • Strong awareness of both external and internal best practice perspectives, maintaining a balanced and fresh viewpoint.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What We Offer
  • Competitive base salary (annually reviewed).
  • Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
  • Private Medical Care & Life Insurance.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Pension Plan.
  • Paid Parental Leave.
  • Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.
  • Access to an array of learning and development resources.

Citigroup Global Markets Limited is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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