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Citi’s Risk Management organization oversees risk-taking activities and assesses risks and issues independently of the front line units.  We establish and maintain the enterprise risk management framework that ensures the ability to consistently identify, measure, monitor, control and report material aggregate risks.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Vice President, Historical Data Management Lead -  Hybrid (Internal Job Title: Model/Anlys/Valid Officer - C13) based in Taguig, Philippines.  Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future.  For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.

• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.

• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.

• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.

• We have a variety of programs that help employees balance their work and life, including generous paid time off packages.

• We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work. In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world.

In this role, you’re expected to:

The Model/Anlys/Valid Officer is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

• Develops, enhances, and validates the methods of measuring and analyzing risk, for all risk types including market, credit and operational. Also, may develop, validate and strategize uses of scoring models and scoring model related policies.

• Manages model risk across the model life-cycle including model validation, ongoing performance evaluation and annual model reviews.

• Produces analytics and reporting used to manage risk for Citi's operations.

• Translates operational requests from the business into programming and data criteria and conduct systems and operational research in order to model expected results.

• Assists in the development of analytic engines for business product lines.

• Communicates results to diverse audiences.

• Conducts analysis and packages it into detailed technical documentation report for validation purposes sufficient to meet regulatory guidelines and exceed industry standards.

• Participates on teams to solve business problems.

• Identifies modeling opportunities that yield measurable business results.

• Provides guidance to junior validators as and when necessary.

• Manages stakeholder interaction with model developers and business owners during the model life-cycle.

• Represents the bank in interactions with regulatory agencies, as required.

• Presents model validation findings to senior management and supervisory authorities.

• Provides effective challenge to model assumptions, mathematical formulation, and implementation.

• Assesses and quantifies model risk due to model limitations to inform stakeholders of their risk profile and development of compensating controls.

• Contributes to strategic, cross-functional initiatives within the model risk organization.

• 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 a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• 6-10 years experience

• Experience in coding python and SQL is a must

• Proficient in Microsoft Office with an emphasis on MS Excel

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

• Self-motivated and detail oriented

• Demonstrated project management and organizational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time .

• Practical experience using SAS or similar statistical coding software to build and test prediction models. comfortable interfacing with business clients. proficiency handling very large data sets.

• Experience in a quantitative role in risk management at a financial institution with experience in either model development or validation.

• Good knowledge and understanding of a variety of model development and validation testing techniques covering risk models.

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

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The Model/Anlys/Valid Sr Mgr accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning.Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.

The Historical Data Management leads the build out and transition of Citi’s Risk-Based Monte Carlo VAR to Risk based and Full Reval Historical Simulation VAR

The team provides analytic support to the Risk Organization through:

•Data Quality review of the time series input into the Value-at-Risk (VaR) / Expected Shortfall (ES) calculations

•Conducting the VaR/ES Impact Assessment to relevant Volcker desks

•Performing periodic review as a long-term maintenance of historical Time Series, including parameters used in data sourcing and data quality

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of data analysts responsible for the data quality review and remediation of market risk data:

Subject matter expert (SME) with:

- high operational / data management mindset

- effective stakeholder management skills

- strong project management skills

- deep risk and product knowledge

working in collaborations with various stakeholders:

- Market Risk Analytics (MRA) on model implementation to the historical time series

- Risk Technology on Historical Data Store (HDS) build out, maintenance and improvements

- other Data Analytics and Risk Reporting teams on internal alignment and process consistencies

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in market risk & data quality analysis. Experience in other fields of Finance a plus.
• Time management skills and an ability to work in a high-paced environment
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Proven track record in people management and development
• Ability to interact successfully with risk managers, risk technology and risk modelling
• Strong data analysis skills and problem-solving abilities
• Demonstrated project management and organizational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time.
• A high competency level with Excel/PowerPoint
• Practical experience in Python and/or SQL is a plus
• Self-motivated and detail oriented

Education:

• Minimum Bachelors/University degree or equivalent required; MS/MBA or equivalent is a plus.
• Degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science preferred

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Job Family Group:

Risk Management

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Job Family:

Risk Analytics, Modeling, and Validation

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Time Type:

Full time

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