Data Governance Foundation Group Manager Svp

The Controllers Transformation organization is looking for a dynamic individual to help shape the future of the Finance organization. As part of Citi Finance’s transformation program, the Controllers Transformation team is charged with leading Finance’s efforts to provide accurate information of the highest quality to our customers, shareholders and regulators. Controllers Transformation processes are comprised of those sets of activities that begin with defining and establishing appropriate data standards and ensuring readiness for consumers, standardizing the accounting and processing of transactions to financial systems, implementing a comprehensive set of integrated financial closing processes, which then culminates with instituting common and optimized financial / regulatory reporting processes.

Controllers Transformation processes are the starting point for a majority of Finance activities and serve as a feeder to other global processes and areas of consumption. The role holder will be a change leader and actively engage Regulatory Reporting teams leads to help transform Finance’s global process.
The role holder will champion business process changes by understanding current state processes, helping to define the target state, partnering with Technology on the delivery of required infrastructure capability, and with client-facing and shared services teams in the transformation to the target state. A strong finance background, passion for driving change, navigating and overcoming obstacles, and working effectively independently and in team settings are critical to the role holder’s success and growth.

The role holder must be able to evaluate issues of varying complexities by developing an approach or action using multiple sources of information and weighing various alternatives and balancing potential conflicting situations. Requires excellent analytical skills to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources.

Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Involved in short
- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area.

**Responsibilities**:

- Analyze and develop plans to drive program metrics improvements. Metrics will include those to improve report health and data governance health scores for the BCBS reports
- Work closely with Data Teams and report Owners to define requirements and edit checks for Consent Order Reporting commitments for the Data Use Cases
- Manage efforts to control metrics degradation and work with Process team to enhance process and controls
- Prioritizing data requirements and data sourcing within the Investment Case Technology budget process
- Talent Assessment, Acquisition and Development to support objectives of:

- Re-engineer the process to improve overall performance and controls of the function
- Deploy technology solutions to automate function across rules governance teams
- Interact with Finance, CDO, FCDO, FRSS, Internal and External Auditors
- Maintain meaningful KPI and KRIs to monitor progress against objectives, communicate to management
- Facilitate the interaction between Local Regulatory Reporting and U.S. Regulatory Reporting
- Contributes to the design, roll-out and governance of financial solutions, including:

- Participate in formulating and setting strategic direction for the process, organization and architecture covering Finance across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations
- Partner with Finance groups to provide reporting and best practices guidance
- 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
- Manages complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas
- Leads and directs a team of professionals, directly and indirectly
- Applies in-depth knowledge of the business impact of process design and technical contributions
- Regularly interacts with peers within the firm and externally, including regulators and professional organizations
- Provides advice to internal clients on the implications of business trends, issues, operating environment changes and firm or business unit strategy.
- Performs other duties and functions as assigned.

**Qualifications**:

- 12+ years of relevant experience, within Finance, Regulatory Reporting, infrastructure transformation, project management implementation or related field, the financial services industry required
- 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
- Analytical, flexible, team-oriented, with strong attention to detail
- Exceptional analytical, strategic, and problem-sol