Fp & A Risk & Control Lead Analyst

The Costa Rica Analytical Center for FP&A is a critical part of Citi's FP&A global function.
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Global FP&A Risk & Control team based in Costa Rica and get exposure to working in global programs.
The Financial Planning and Analysis Risk & Control Lead Analyst is a senior professional role responsible for providing management with an analysis and insight on Risk & Control related topics in coordination with the broader Finance team.
The overall objective is to contribute to directional strategy as well as utilize in-depth specialty knowledge to provide advice/counsel on the evaluation of policy adherence, performance, and results.
The team works closely with Global FP&A head, FP&A GPO, FTO Leads, Business CFOs, Finance Function heads and other senior FP&A leads.
Additionally, as part of this team, you will be responsible of managing and executing projects on different phases: designing, tracking, implementing, executing, etc.
projects at FP&A and/or Finance level ensuring that the Transformation framework is adhered, and priorities addressed.
**Responsibilities**:

- Support the risk & control team to drive transformation initiatives for FP&A for assigned projects and generate high impact insights to ensure adherence.
- Drive project reviews to ensure alignment with the strategy.
This will include quickly learning details of multiple business processes.
In addition, the ability to think laterally and flexibly to understand business needs and opportunities as compared to current state and discuss/brainstorm these situations with business and technology partners.
Must be able to break down complex problems, question assumptions and be comfortable making high impact decisions with limited information and some degree of uncertainty.
- Provide recommendations & supporting documentation for new or proposed processes, business rules & policy.
- Lead and collaborate across the organization to ensure consistent and effective execution of the project assigned across stakeholders.
- Overall management of the multiple high visible risk & control efforts including strong governance / tracking of execution partnering with key stakeholders
- Advise on directional strategy and provide guidance on significant risk & control decisions
- Develop and maintain relationships with key partners and senior management to influence behavior and decision making
- Prepare presentations and analysis for the team
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
- Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
**Qualifications**:

- 10+ years of work experience with significant part of that focused on Risk & Control initiatives preferably in Financial Services / Banks, with global exposure.
- Experience in Agile approach and project management
- Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate group discussions to collaborate with participants across the end-to-end process and present work progress and results.
- Skilled in creating storyboards for presentation to seniors to build consensus.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
Willingness to ask questions and ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts and requirements, related to product and process knowledge.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of various parts of a project/initiative and following through until resolution.
- Knowledge of Databases, Visualization and BI tools will be an added advantage.
- Fluent in English and Spanish
- Advanced skills in platforms such as Excel, Power Point, etc..

**Education**:

- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed.
Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
- **Job Family Group**:
Finance
- **Job Family**:
Financial Planning & Analysis
- **Time Type**:
Full time
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